A Freedom-class littoral combat ship — a small warship that is designed to patrol close to shorelines — will be named the USS Detroit in h… (freep) [mappress] Source: freep,March 21, 2011;
About 1,000 sailors and aircraft that are part of an aircraft carrier wing based in Japan have started moving to Andersen Air Force Base, th… (guampdn) [mappress] Source: guampdn,March 21, 2011;
The Ministry of Defence has awarded BAE Systems a £22.5m, seven-year contract to support the Royal Navy’s Submarine and Mine Warfare Command… By James Thompson (independend) [mappress] Source: independend,March 21, 2011;
The Sri Lanka Navy has said that measures would be taken to improve the relations between the Sri Lankan and Indian fishermen… (lankanewspapers) [mappress] Source: lankanewspapers,March 21, 2011;
France on Sunday sent its Charles de Gaulle aircraft carrier to Libya to bolster the West’s air campaign against Muammar Gaddafi’s forces… (indiatimes) [mappress] Source: indiatimes,March 20, 2011;
On Wednesday 9 March 2011 HMAS Toowomba (Commander Andrew Quinn) successfully completed Work Up Progress Evaluation or WUPE (Pronounced WUPPIE). It sounds innocuous enough but it is actually a very detailed assessment of the ship’s capabilities. The assessment is part of the preparedness training an
Modus Operandi, a leading software and information integration technology company, has been selected to provide the U.S. Navy with an innovative intelligence analysis system that fuses human intelligence with several other types of intelligence and video, dramatically reducing analyst workload and i
The Department of the Navy announced that it is now in a position to support Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NGC) spin-off of its shipbuilding business. The Navy finds Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. (HII) responsible for award of amphibious transport dock ship LPD 26 and guided missile destroyer
The USS Abraham Lincoln is on its way home. And so are the destroyers USS Momsen and the USS Shoup… By Gale Fiege (heraldnet) [mappress] Source: heraldnet, March 18, 2011;
This year’s first test launch of the Bulava submarine-launched ballistic missile will take place in June from the Yuri Dolgoruki submarine… (ruvr) [mappress] Source: ruvr, March 18, 2011;
The Royal Navy Sandown class mine countermeasure vessel, HMS Shoreham, one of the most advanced of its type in the world, will pay a five-da… (shoreham-port) [mappress] Source: shoreham-port, March 18, 2011;
HMS York is back in the Atlantic heading for the Falkland Islands after her headline-making trip to Libya… (yorkpress) [mappress] Source: yorkpress, March 18, 2011;
Somali pirates have released a chemical tanker hijacked in November after payment of a ransom of $2m, Tunisia’s transport ministry announced… (news24) [mappress] Source: news24,March 17, 2011
For the second time in history, a U.S. naval officer on a U.S. warship entering Mobile Bay, Alabama uttered the words, “Damn the torpedoes… (jacksonville) [mappress] Source: jacksonville,March 17, 2011;
