Russian Navy command made a decision not to purchase Project 12322 Zubr small-size air-cushion landing ships, reports Izvestiya referring to a source in Navy Main HQ. Instead, it is planned to build new dynamic and static buoyancy boats which will be based on various landing ships including Mistral-
Sri Lanka Navy rescued 06 Indian fishermen in the Sri Lankan waters north of Vettileikerni on 23rd December 2011. They were brought ashore and handed over to Point Pedro Police for onward action. The Indian fishermen had been poaching in Sri Lankan Waters when their boat had begun to drift towards V
Iran launched a large-scale 10-day naval exercise on Saturday in an area stretching from the east of the Strait of Hormuz in the Persian… (rian) [mappress] Source: rian, December 26, 2011
JSC Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center (affiliate of United Shipbuilding Corporation) started repair works on Project 949A Antei nuclear-powered attack submarine Smolensk. The sub was taken over by the shipyard in Sept 2011, laid up and docked in Nov 2011. In the dock, experts of Zvezdochka center will p
Nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) Yury Dolgoruky on Friday Dec 23 carried out last in 2011 test salvo launch of two SLBM Bulava missiles from the White Sea, reports RIA Novosti referring to spokesman for Russian defense ministry Col Igor Konashenkov. “The salvo launch was performed
A Commander, Task Force (CTF) 55 ship conducted the first port visit since the end of Operation New Dawn, and the last port visit of 2011 in Umm Qasr, Iraq, Dec. 21. Island-Class Patrol Boat USCGC Adak (WPB-1333), assigned to CTF 55, was the first U.S. military ship to visit Iraq following the offic
A blood donation campaign organized by the Western Naval Command Medical Organization was held at the SLNS Parakrama auditorium on 23rd December 2011. A large number of naval personnel attached to the Western Naval Command participated with great enthusiasm. Officials of the National Blood Transfusi
Tanker RFA Wave Knight and pirate-busting stores ship RFA Fort Victoria joined forces this week to exercise together in the Indian Ocean. The two Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships spent 24 hours in company with each other as they supported the ongoing naval effort to protect maritime trade east of Suez. ‘
A 150,000 dwt suezmax tanker owned by Nordic American Tanker Shipping was attacked by pirates, but has come out of the encounter safely. The attack happened on Monday, but news of the incident emerged only today (Fri), when the US Navy disclosed that it had intercepted nine Somali pirates after they
Royal Navy frigate HMS Somerset celebrated Christmas a week early this year, taking advantage in a brief pause from operational tasking to engage in seasonal festivities on Sunday 18 December 2011. HMS Somerset is working under Combined Maritime Forces as part of a task force which patrols the Red S
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a $17,600,000 modification to previously awarded contract to exercise an option for DDG 1000 class services. This modification provides additional class services associated with the detail design and construction of DDG 1000 class ships
Royal Marines are testing a high-speed assault boat designed to protect Royal Navy ships from fast-attack craft. Four Swedish Combat Boat 90s are on loan to the unit at Instow in North Devon which needs to train with next generation high-speed craft like ones they will use in the future. They are fa
Iran put neighbors on notice Thursday that it was about to conduct vast naval exercises in the Arabian Sea, including war games near the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for international oil traffic. The exercises, to start Saturday and last 10 days, are Iran’s first since May 2010 and were
The Deputy Commander of the Main Staff of the Russian navy, Rear Admiral Vasily Lyashok, and a high level delegation were received by President James Michel at State House yesterday. They were accompanied by the Russian Ambassador in Victoria, Mikhail Kalinin. The visit coincides with the port of ca
