The US research agency DARPA announced it has tested its sensor-carrying parasail, dubbed Towed Airborne Lift of Naval Systems (TALONS), aboard a commissioned US Navy ship for the first time ever. The crew of USS Zephyr, a 174-foot (53-meter) Cyclone-class patrol coastal ship, evaluated the technolo
The Algerian Navy sail training ship El-Mellah started her second round of sea trials on September 16. El-Mellah (meaning sailor in Arabic) was built by the Polish shipbuilder Remontowa Shipbuilding shipyard in Gdansk and launched in November 2015. Earlier tests – completed in July – verified the ve
A new, modernized underwater rescue system dubbed SSP-M and designed for the Russian Navy underwater forces will be demonstrated during the Army 2017 International Military-Technical Forum. According to the Russian defense ministry, the equipment was tested at the Rescue and Underwater Technologies
UK’s Maritime Autonomous Platform Exploitation (MAPLE) project is entering phase four after defense contractor Qinetiq signed a £4.5m contract to lead this phase of development. The project is being developed for the defense ministry’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) and focuses on
The US Navy is set to commission the Expeditionary Sea Base USS Lewis B. Puller (ESB 3) in a ceremony on Thursday at Khalifa bin Salman Port in Al Hidd, Bahrain. The ship still bears the designation of a Military Sealift Command ship but will become a full blown warship after it is commissioned at a
The US Navy’s Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Santa Fe (SSN 763) completed her six-month deployment returning to her homeport at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on August 15. During the deployment, 29 enlisted sailors and one officer earned their submarine warfare qualification. “It was a
Mauritius Police Force/National Coast Guard (NCG) commissioned its new patrol vessel CGS Valiant in Port Louis on August 16. The ceremony was attended by the Prime Minister of Mauritius and other government and security officials. In his address, the Prime Minister highlighted that the acquisition o
Seven US sailors who died in a collision between destroyer USS Fitzgerald and a commercial ship on June 17 posthumously advanced to their next rank, the US Navy announced on Wednesday. – Gunner’s Mate Seaman Dakota Kyle Rigsby, 19, from Palmyra, Virginia, was posthumously advanced to Petty Officer 3
The Indian Coast Guard has received additional two high speed interceptor boats (C-433 and C-434) from shipbuilder Larsen & Toubro. The vessels were delivered at the company’s Kattupalli Shipyard, near Chennai, and are part of two contracts being executed by L&T for design and construction of 54 Int
Australia’s Defence Science and Technology (DST) Group and Sonartech Atlas signed a three-year agreement on August 17 for research and development in naval capabilities for Australian ships and submarines. The research will focus on short time signal analysis, on-board signature management systems a
The US Coast Guard on Tuesday temporarily relieved the officer in charge of Coast Guard Station Ashtabula in Ashtabula, Ohio due to what it termed as “loss of confidence”. Chief Petty Officer Bryan Pate was temporarily removed from command by Rear Adm. Joanna Nunan, commander, Ninth Coast Guard Dist
The German Navy’s F122, Bremen-class frigate FGS ‘Lübeck’ is joining NATO’s Standing Maritime Group 2 in the Aegean Sea. Setting sail on August 21, Lübeck will be replacing another German ship, F123 frigate FGS Brandenburg, which spent six months as the flagship of the international task group. Comm
The Libyan Coast Guard detained a Spanish migrant-rescue NGO vessel near Libyan waters, holding the vessel and crew captive for nearly two hours. Proactiva Open Arms said on Tuesday that their vessel Golf Azzurro, a former fishing trawler, was “kidnapped” by a Libyan Coast Guard ship in internationa
US shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries Inc. has agreed to pay $9.2 million to settle a lawsuit alleging the shipbuilder knowingly overbilled the government for work on U.S. Navy and Coast Guard ships at its shipyards in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The country’s only shipbuilder capable of buildin
