U.S. Navy’s amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) returned to homeport on August 12 following the successful completion of Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2016. During this year’s multinational maritime exercise, America served as the command and control platform for the amphibious task force, Com
U.S. Navy’s latest class of destroyer, often referred to as the ‘super-stealth’ destroyer, the USS Zumwalt played host to the latest class of international officers at U.S. Naval War College’s Naval Command College (NCC). As students of the NCC, the officers study together for a year in Newport, Rho
U.S. Marine and Fleet Forces commands (USFF and MARFORCOM) kicked off exercise Bold Alligator 2016 (BA16) in Norfolk on August 15. BA16 is a synthetic, scenario-based simulation exercise designed to train Expeditionary Strike Group (ESG) 2 and 2d Marine Expeditionary Brigade (2d MEB). As part of the
Cambridge Pixel, a British radar and sensor software provider, has been selected by Lockheed Martin Integrated Systems UK to supply software modules for radar scan conversion, target tracking and radar fusion, for integration into the company’s new radar system. This navigation radar system – along
British shipbuilder BAE Systems has shared a photo of the first of three new Royal Navy offshore patrol vessels, HMS Forth, outside the Govan construction shed in Glasgow prior to its launch. BAE received a £348 million contract to build the three vessels in August 2014. The offshore patrol vessels
The U.S. Navy has announced that the new Arleigh Burke Class Destroyer (DDG-122) will be named in honor of Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone on August 16. The naming ceremony will be held aboard Camp Pendleton and will be presided over by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. Gunnery Sgt. John Basilone received
A U.S. Navy T-45C Goshawk crashed southwest of Naval Air Station (NAS) Kingsville, Texas, on August 14, the navy has said. According to the navy, both pilots ejected safely and are being evaluated for injuries at a local hospital. The training aircraft, assigned to Training Squadron (VT) 21, was on
Royal New Zealand Navy’s Anzac-class frigate HMNZS Te Kaha arrived home today, August 15, after three months at sea and participating in RIMPAC, the world’s largest maritime exercise held in and around the Hawaiian Islands. Te Kaha departed Devonport Naval Base on May 3 participating in work-up ex
The U.S. Navy’s guided-missile destroyer USS Stockdale (DDG 106) returned to Naval Base San Diego Thursday, August 11, after a 205 day deployment to the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operation. Stockdale deployed with the aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74), guided-missile cruiser USS Mobile Bay
Exercise Paradise, the bilateral maritime engagement between Royal Australian and Papua New Guinean navies, got underway in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea. One of Australia’s Armidale class patrol boats, HMAS Wollongong, is taking part alongside the local Pacific class patrol boats, HMPNG Ships Seea
U.S. Navy aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) returned to its homeport of Bremerton, Washington on August 14, after it made a stop over in San Diego on August 10. The carrier returned from a scheduled seven-month deployment to the Indo-Asia-Pacific. John C. Stennis departed for the deploym
German Navy’s F123 Brandenburg-class frigate FGS Mecklenburg-Vorpommern will depart her homeport in Willhelmshaven on August 16 to join the EU mission against human trafficking in the Mediterranean Sea. Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is expected to join the EUNAVFOR Op Sophia at the beginning of September,
The U.S. Navy’s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program completed blast and fire testing of a full-scale structural assembly at the U.S. Army Aberdeen Test Center officials announced Aug. 9. Built to replicate Independence variant LCS standards of shipbuilding, the Multi Compartment Surrogate (MCS) was u
The Royal Canadian Navy has deployed two Kingston-class maritime coastal defense vessels to Arctic waters so as to “continue RCN’s presence in the Canadian North”. Her Majesty’s Canadian Ships (HMCS) Shawinigan and Moncton departed from their home port of Halifax, Nova Scotia, on August 11 to conduc
