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
Two aviators reached career milestones by achieving their 1,000th carrier arrested landing, or “trap,” on the same day, while serving aboard the same aircraft carrier, USS Nimitz (CVN 68) Aug. 28. It’s a rare event that two aviators would reach the career milestone of achieving their 1,000th carrier
Earlier this month, the Dutch naval vessel HNLMS Amsterdam charted the infamous drug smuggling route Highway 10 between West Africa and South America. This was done at the request of the European counter-drug organisation Maritime Analysis and Operations Centre – Narcotics (MAOC-N) in Lisbon. Over t
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
The Royal Australian Navy is making great headway in its bid to achieve White Ribbon accreditation, with one in every five Navy members having completed the important White Ribbon survey. White Ribbon Australia seeks to change the attitudes and behaviours that lead to and perpetuate men’s violence a
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
Royal Navy warship HMS Argyll has just completed an intense period of counter-narcotics operations in the Eastern Pacific Ocean before making her way back home to the UK. The Plymouth-based Type-23 frigate worked alongside her US, Canadian and Colombian allies to help deter potential drug trafficker
The future USS Coronado (LCS 4) successfully concluded acceptance trials after completing a series of graded in-port and underway demonstrations for the Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV), the Navy announced Aug. 28. Acceptance trials are the last significant milestone before delivery of
Amphibious dock landing ship USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) returned to San Diego Aug. 26 after more than three months in the Indo-Asia Pacific region for Pacific Partnership 2013. Pacific Partnership, a disaster-response preparedness mission, visited the host nations of Samoa, Tonga, Republic of the Mar
Royal Navy warship, HMS Montrose could be used to launch a military strike against Syria, if needed, according to The Herald. HMS Montrose could be joined by an unnamed nuclear submarine. Nevertheless, the specific positions of the military assets have not been disclosed due to security reasons. Bri
The officers and crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Sherman returned home to San Diego, on August 26, after a successful three-month patrol conducting frontline maritime drug interdictions and training in the Eastern Pacific Ocean off the coast of Central America. The crew of the 378-foot high-enduranc
The Naval Forces of Egypt have rescued the crew of Israeli Zim boxship, which caught on fire while at sea, reports the Gulf Ship News. The ship was on its way from Djibouti sailing toward the Mediterranean Sea. The Navy Forces and a fire unit of the Suez Canal Authority were able to put the [&hellip
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
