As of Thursday 13 March, the Spanish Offshore Patrol Vessel, ESPS Relámpago joined the EU Naval Force to carry out counter-piracy patrols off the coast of Somalia. ESPS Relámpago has replaced ESPS Tornado as the Spanish contribution to Operation Atalanta. ESPS Tornado is now on her way back home.
Guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG 103) arrived in Bulgaria for a port visit, March 13. Truxtun’s stay in the Black Sea will allow the ship to host an exercise planning conference with NATO allies March 15. The conference will focus on a multilateral naval exercise in the spirit of reassuri
A dozen more F-16s and 300 personnel based at Aviano Air Base, Italy, will augment the U.S. aviation detachment at Lask Air Base, Poland, a Pentagon spokesman announced yesterday. U.S. Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel announced last week that the United States would augment the aviation detachment in
On March 12, NATO Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM) Chief of Staff, Rear Admiral Giorgio Lazio, concluded a three-day visit to Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) and the U.S. Naval Forces Central Command/U.S. Fifth Fleet (COMUSNAVCENT). During the visit, Rear Admiral Lazio met with USNAVCENT Deputy Com
The Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless is returning to Glasgow, the city in which she was built, today, March 13. Going alongside at King George V Dock, the ship will be just down the river from Govan where she was launched, and across the water from Scotstoun where she was fitted out. [
Royal Navy warship HMS Portland pulled out all the stops to impress the President of Sierra Leone His Excellency Dr Ernest Bai Koroma during a brief visit to Freetown over the weekend. The President was accompanied by his Minister of Justice, the Honourable Frank B Kargbo, the Minister for Foreign
The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) anchors out in the harbor of Antalya, Turkey. George H. W. Bush is on a scheduled deployment supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility. [mappress] Naval Today Staf
The Royal Navy warship HMS Montrose returns home to the South West on Wednesday (12th March) after a series of successful operations, including supporting the international efforts to ensure removal of chemical weapons from Syria. The frigate will sail into HM Naval Base, Devonport, Plymouth to an
J+S Ltd has been selected by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) as the suppliers of an integrated Torpedo Launcher System (TLS) for the New Royal Thailand Navy’s Frigate. The contract was agreed upon in December 2013. The system will integrate with the ship’s Combat Management System
Spanish warship Alvaro De Bazan, NATO’s counter-piracy flagship, took part in an air defence training drill in the Gulf of Aden on Wednesday (5 March 2014) in order to maintain its readiness to tackle any challenge on the high seas, including deterrance of Somali pirates. French air force fighters
During the last week, EU Naval Force (EU NAVFOR) Somalia Operation Atalanta warships FGS Hessen and ESPS Tornado have carried out several ‘Friendly Approaches’ in the Gulf of Aden. In addition to patrols in the Internationally Recommended Transit Corridor (IRTC) in the Gulf of Aden and Indian Ocea
In a combined French and Australian operation, naval ships seized and destroyed almost 650 kilograms of cannabis resin hidden aboard a smuggling skiff in the Red Sea. After HMAS Darwin intercepted the skiff, her boarding party discovered the cannabis resin in 120 plastic packages concealed in hess
The Royal Navy’s HMS Montrose made her penultimate stop in Grand Harbour, Malta on her seven-month deployment. The Devonport-based warship has been at the sharp end of Royal Navy operations in the opening weeks of 2014, helping to eliminate Syria’s ability to chemical weapons by escorting merchant s
On Friday, 7 March 2014, Standing NATO Mine Counter-Measures Group TWO (SNMCMG2) carried out a major damage control exercise near the island of Corfu. The exercise included a focus on basic seamanship exercises, including firefighting, steering gear breakdown, man overboard, medical casualty, speedb
