Sailors aboard the U.S. Navy’s amphibious assault sip USS Wasp (LHD 1) laid to rest 20 military veterans and one military spouse during a burial at sea held June 30. Seventeen Sailors, one Marine, one Airman, one Soldier and one military spouse where committed to the sea with full military honors, i
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U.S. Navy’s Avenger-class mine countermeasures ship USS Patriot (MCM 7) departed Sasebo, Japan, July 2 for a routine patrol in U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. During the ship’s patrol, Patriot will conduct a series of port visits throughout Japan and participate with the Japan Maritime Self-Defen
A Taiwan Navy vessel fired a “carrier-killer” anti-ship missile towards China during an exercise on Friday morning. A Chin Chiang-class Taiwan Navy patrol boat fired the Hsiung Feng III missile which did not reach China but instead killed one fisherman and injured three more as it struck a fishing b
The Japanese government has agreed to provide Sri Lanka with a grant of up to 1.83 billion yen (approx. US$18M) for the Sri Lanka Coast Guard to receive two new patrol boats. The agreement, signed June 30 between the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA) and the Government of the Democratic
As announced in the acquisition strategy for the T-AO 205 program, the U.S. Navy has picked General Dynamics to build the first six of overall 17 planned John Lewis-class fleet oilers while HII received a contract for the construction of LHA 8. General Dynamics NASSCO, a subsidiary of General Dynami
The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries a $272.4 million initial contract for the construction of the U.S. Navy’s next large-deck amphibious assault warship, LHA 8. While the initial contract is for planning, advanced engineering, and procurement of long lead time material, the award
The U.S. Navy has released the results of the investigation into the seizure of two riverine boats and the detention of 10 U.S. Navy personnel by Iranian forces during a June 30 press conference at the Pentagon. Speaking at the occasion, Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson noted tha
U.S. Navy’s command ship USS Mount Whitney arrived to Klaipeda, Lithuania on June 30 for a scheduled port visit having departed Stockholm, Sweden a day earlier. During the visit, the USS Mount Whitney commanding officer and a delegation will meet with the Commander of the Lithuanian Navy, mayor of K
The Royal Navy’s Scotland-based minehunter squadron has a new Commanding Officer. The First Mine Counter Measures Squadron (MCM1), which is based at HM Naval Base Clyde, operates a fleet of seven Sandown Class vessels each of them equipped with the latest in mine hunting technology. On June 21, outg
Two BMT Defense Services chiefs recently expressed their views on the fleet support vessels delivered to the world’s navies and on the potential for future vessels to be less single-role specific and more multi-role in their functionality. Looking into the future, Andy Kimber, chief naval architect
The Royal Navy is set to provide escorts to the Queen Elizabeth 2 passenger liner as she sails into and out of Liverpool this weekend. HMS Pembroke, a Sandown-class minehunter vessel, the most manoeuvrable vessel in the Navy’s order of battle, will accompany the iconic ship from Bar Light to the cit
U.S. Navy’s Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Topeka (SSN 754) returned to its homeport of Polaris Point, Guam, on July 1 following a two-month forward operating period to the Western Pacific. This is the submarine’s first Guam homecoming after it changed homeports in May 2015 when it transferr
Subsea technology company OceanWorks International informed that it has completed a major survey and overhaul of the French Navy’s Hardsuit Atmospheric Diving System (ADS). The work was contracted to OceanWorks by ECA Robotics, the company in charge of maintaining the Hardsuit ADS for the French Nav
