A new medical simulation centre to benefit medical training for LHD conditions was opened at the Royal Australian Navy Medical School at HMAS Penguin by the Director General Health Capability and Director General Navy Health Service, Commodore Elizabeth Rushbrook, on Monday 19 August. Now the larges
With the world focused on the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi reiterated to leaders attending the St. Petersburg for the Group of 20 (G20) summit the need to “push even harder” for a political solution to end the blood
Commander of the Navy, Vice Admiral Jayanath Colombage handed over the keys of the fourteen houses built by the Navy to naval personnel at a ceremony held at the Admiral Somathilake Dissanayake Auditorium at SLNS Parakrama on 05th September 2013. Chief of Staff of the Navy, Rear Admiral Jayantha Per
Capt. Kelly A. Aeschbach relieved Capt. Danelle M. Barrett as commanding officer, Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic (NCTAMS LANT) during a ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk, Sept. 4. Barrett, who assumed command of NCTAMS LANT in Aug. 2011, led 2,700 personnel in 18
Raytheon Company has completed successful test and demonstration flights of the SeaVue XMC (eXpanded Mission Capability) maritime surveillance radar in Australia. The flights have been conducted during the last year in coordination with the Australian Customs and Border Protection Service. As part o
Rapid Action Boat Squadron (RABS) craft, Z 225 and Z 230 attached to the Naval Deployment Nayaru of the Eastern Naval Command with the assistance of Mullaithivu District fisheries officials arrested 10 persons engaged in illegal fishing 4.5 nautical miles east of Kokilai on 04th September 2013. The
Even without the uncertainty caused by budget negotiations, it will take years for the Navy to recover from the effects of sequestration, the chief of naval operations told an audience at the American Enterprise Institute in Washington Sept 5. Sequestration and the effects of the continuing budget r
On 4 September 2013, off the coast of Mogadishu, the EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) Atalanta hosted the President of Somalia, Hassan Sheikh Mohamud, on board the Dutch EU NAVFOR flagship, HNLMS Johan de Witt. The President, his Ministers and security commanders met with EU Special Envoy to Somalia, Mich
Sailors assigned to USS Freedom’s (LCS 1) visit, board, search and seizure (VBSS) team conducted a boarding exercise with the Royal Malaysian Navy Sept. 4 as part of Southeast Asia Cooperation and Training (SEACAT) 2013. Freedom is one of three U.S. ships along with a P-3C maritime patrol aircraft p
General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems was awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy to support the implementation of the Future Airborne Capability Environment (FACE) application program interface onto a new Open Systems Processor card in the mission system computer for the AV-8B Harrier II jet. U
A joint venture between established Canadian defence systems specialists Kaycom inc, and UK defence systems specialists J+S Ltd., one of the world’s leading providers of acoustic and subsea technologies, is being launched at DEFSEC Atlantic 2013. JSK Naval Support Inc. is a new venture that builds o
Canadian ships HMCS Iroquois, Preserver and Ville de Québec are participating in Exercise Unitas in the western Caribbean with 14 southern allied countries from September 6 to 15. Held each year since 1959, Exercise Unitas is the largest annual exercise south of the United States border and is desig
Russia is sending three more ships to the Mediterranean Sea to boost fleet near Syria, according to Bloomberg. The deployed ships are two destroyers, including the Nastoichivy, the flagship of the Baltic Fleet, and the Moskva missile cruiser, which will join reconnaissance ship Priazovye, deployed t
LRAD Corporation, the world’s leading provider of long range acoustic hailing devices (AHDs), announced today it has received a $700,000 order for LRAD 300X systems for installation on international coastal patrol boats currently under construction. Shipments under the order are scheduled to begin t
