Royal Navy vessel HMS Severn is now back on patrol following her presence at the world-famous Edinburgh Tattoo. The patrol ship, which is one of three sister ships in the Portsmouth-based Fishery Protection Squadron, was berthed at Leith Docks on the outskirts of Edinburgh. From here she supported t
A Royal Navy warship has played a game of cat-and-mouse as part of a high-tempo exercise in the Mediterranean with the Hellenic Navy. HMS Montrose and HS Kanaris took turns to hunt each other down in the dead of night using their respective passive detection systems, finding it equally difficult to
Sailors and staff at HMS Collingwood said goodbye to Commodore Mike Mansergh CBE and welcomed Captain Steve Dainton CBE as he officially took Command of HMS Collingwood and the Maritime Warfare School. Commodore Mansergh handed over the 200-acre Fareham establishment together with the wider aspects
On August 29th 2013, the last ship of the LCT (Landing Craft Tank) Project TCG Ç-158 constructed by Turkish Anadolu Shipyard(ADIK) left ADİK bay. ”Having realized the final delivery of TCG Ç-158 on August 28th 2013 after 12 months of warranty period, considering the shipyard’s first experience on a
BMT Hi-Q Sigma Ltd (BMT), a subsidiary of BMT Group, has announced that in partnership with Nuvia Ltd, it has been awarded a 12 month extension contract with the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MoD). This contract will see both companies continuing to provide technical expertise and programme management s
On Thursday morning, 29 August 2013, three NATO ships assigned to Standing NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group TWO (SNMCMG2) arrived in Sevastopol for a scheduled visit to the Black Sea port. Under the command of Commander Matthias Seipel, German Navy, the Group includes the flagship FGS MOSEL and FGS
The Commander of Naval Striking and Support Forces at NATO (STRIKFORNATO), Vice Admiral Frank Pandolfe USN, has paid a visit to the Royal Navy’s Fleet Flagship HMS Bulwark. VAdm Pandolfe took the opportunity to visit the ship while she was alongside in Lisbon as part of a multi-national exercised ca
Royal Navy warship HMS Chiddingfold will arrive in Dartmouth tomorrow (Thursday) as she proudly maintains the Royal Navy’s close ties with the town to undertake the privileged duty of Guardship for the Royal Regatta. The Portsmouth based ship will provide the backdrop for many of the events that tak
A large-scale exercise which will see nearly 1000 Royal Marines hone their skills alongside their Albanian counterparts is now under way. Exercise Albanian Lion is the first major outing for the Response Force Task Group (RFTG) – a Royal Naval force involving four warships and five support vessels w
At this year’s Defence and Security event in London, DSEI (10-13 Sep), Marine security experts, BCB Marine, will be displaying a device which enables security teams to intercept, entrap and disable fast vessels used in narcotics trafficking, piracy or terrorist acts without using deadly force. UK-ba
Having arrived at Cape Verde (19th August), the crew of HMS Richmond did not waste any time in putting the theory learnt from the Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre (Narcotics) (MAOC(N)) briefings (received previously in Lisbon, Portugal), into practice with an intensive training programme. A s
Between 18 – 26 August 2013, EUCAP NESTOR organised a senior maritime security course for fourteen participants from the Horn of Africa region, on board EU Naval Force flagship HNLMS Johan de Witt. On 18 August the fourteen participants embarked HNLMS Johan de Witt in Djibouti and during the week lo
The engineering and technology group SENER attends as an exhibitor the DSEI exhibition, the world’s largest defense and security event, which is held from September 10 to 13 at the ExCeL convention center in London. SENER’s Engineering and Construction division will present at the exhibition new dev
Unmanned surface vessels (USV) still lag far behind their aerial equivalents in terms of technical capabilities, technology, and deployment. However, new threats, cost-benefit calculations, operational experiences in the past decade, and new technological developments are driving rapid growth in the
