JSC Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center (affiliate of United Shipbuilding Corporation) started repair works on Project 949A Antei nuclear-powered attack submarine Smolensk. The sub was taken over by the shipyard in Sept 2011, laid up and docked in Nov 2011. In the dock, experts of Zvezdochka center will p
Tanker RFA Wave Knight and pirate-busting stores ship RFA Fort Victoria joined forces this week to exercise together in the Indian Ocean. The two Royal Fleet Auxiliary ships spent 24 hours in company with each other as they supported the ongoing naval effort to protect maritime trade east of Suez. ‘
General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, Bath, Maine, is being awarded a $17,600,000 modification to previously awarded contract to exercise an option for DDG 1000 class services. This modification provides additional class services associated with the detail design and construction of DDG 1000 class ships
The Navy will provide personalized career coaching and job search assistance to support Sailors selected for separation by the Enlisted Retention Board (ERB) beginning Jan. 3, 2012 as previously announced in NAVADMIN 332/11. The ERB outplacement services provided by Challenger, Gray & Christmas, Inc
The largest Russian shipyard and the only company building nuclear-powered submarines – JSC Sevmash celebrates 72-nd anniversary since the day of foundation. In 1939, the shipyard called 402-nd Plant laid down the first hull – battleship Sovetskaya Belorussia. During the Great Patriotic War the yard
General Dynamics Electric Boat recently was awarded two U.S. Navy contracts worth $56.7 million to perform submarine modernization and maintenance work and develop advanced technologies for current and future undersea platforms. Electric Boat is a wholly owned subsidiary of General Dynamics. Under t
Vigor Shipyards, Inc., Seattle, Wash., is being awarded a $13,412,284 modification to previously awarded contract (N00024-08-C-4416) to exercise an option for repair, maintenance and modernization of non-nuclear Navy ships. The contract will provide year-around maintenance and scheduling flexibility
The Virginia-class fast attack submarine USS North Carolina (SSN 777) arrived at Fleet Activities Yokosuka Dec. 21 for a routine visit as part of her maiden deployment to the Western Pacific. With a crew of 133, North Carolina will conduct a multitude of missions and showcase the latest capabilities
Anticipating that the pirates will not take a break over the holiday period, neither will the EU NAVFOR units patrolling around the Horn of Africa and in the Somali Basin. Whilst back at home in Europe the families of the deployed EU NAVFOR personnel celebrate this very special season of the year, t
The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) successfully completed Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) Dec. 21, moving one step closer to being certified and better prepared for deployment. The Iwo Jima ARG consists of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Gunston Hall (LSD 44), amphibious assa
Russian aircraft-producing corporation MiG will complete delivery of ship-based fighters MiG-29K/KUB for Indian Navy by the end of the current year; the airplanes are to be stationed on aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, reports ARMS-TASS referring to the company’s press service. The delivery contra
Three of the Royal Navy’s minehunting quartet in the Gulf joined their American and Japanese counterparts for the first combined exercise together in two decades. HMS Pembroke was the UK’s initial contributor to Unified Shield, a large exercise involving two US minesweepers, Gladiator and Dextrous,
The might and long reach of the Indian Navy that moves on to be a blue water force was on display before the nation at the Presidential Fleet Review undertaken by President Pratibha Devisingh Patil off the Mumbai coast on Tuesday. Sailing on INS Subhadra, the designated presidential yacht, President
The amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) and the amphibious transport dock USS New Orleans (LPD 18), along with embarked Marines from the 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), got underway Dec. 19 following completion of Marine Exercise 2012 (MAREX 12) in Cambodia. MAREX 12 took pl
