The ship has just been fitted with two new engines, replacing her old Rolls-Royce Deltics which have been used in the Royal Navy’s minor war vessels for decades. The work is part of a major mid-life upgrade to the Navy’s eight Hunt-class minehunters being carried out by BAE Systems in Portsmouth. Th
Prior to the Submariners’ Day, active bloggers of Russia’s Far East for the first time visited one of Pacific Fleet (PF) diesel electric submarines. The guests had a detailed onboard tour. Activists of the Far East blogosphere went down into the sub’s strength hull and walked fr om bows to stern. Th
Turkish Navy maintains a large fleet of medium sized landing vessels. There are 25 LCT’s and 16 LCM’s according to Jane’s fighting Ships in the inventory of Turkish Navy. The newest of these vessels is more than 20 years old and their top speed is around 8,5 knots. In 2007, Undersecretariat for Defe
DEFENDER, the fifth Type 45 destroyer built by BAE Systems, two days ago set sail from the company’s Scotstoun shipyard to embark on her second and final stage of sea trials off the west coast of Scotland, ahead of her handover to the Royal Navy later this year. During 28 days at sea, DEFENDER will
USS Ford (FFG 54) successfully transited from the ship’s homeport in Everett, Wash., to San Diego, March 2, using 25,000 gallons of a 50/50 algae-derived, hydro-processed algal oil and petroleum F-76 blend in the ships LM 2500 gas turbines. USS Ford’s transit on the algal blend marks the first demon
The first of 5 Steber Navy support vessels MV Koala, after the launching ceremony on February 9th 2012, was delivered to its new home in Sydney on Sunday, 4th March, 2012. Sea trials for the vessel, which lasted few weeks, were conducted on Manning River. The vessel, used by the Defence Force and Go
Over the past few days EUNAVFOR warships, operating as part of the EU’s counter-piracy mission codenamed Operation ATALANTA, have provided life-saving assistance to a stricken dhow, with 12 crew and 92 passengers onboard, including a pregnant woman and 33 children. The dhow had put out a distress si
One out of three new Project 90600 harbor tugs has arrived in Baltic Fleet (BF) Baltiysk Naval Base. Harbor tug RB-42 will join the base’s auxiliary ship brigade. Two other tugs will be stationed in BF Leningrad Naval Base. By the end of 2012, two such tugs will be constructed for Russian Navy. Proj
Amphibious assault ship USS Makin Island (LHD 8) held a change of command ceremony at sea in the Arabian Gulf, Feb. 29. Capt. Cedric E. Pringle relieved Capt. Jim Landers as commanding officer. Pringle becomes the ship’s third commanding officer since commissioning in 2009. For the past 18 months, P
Eleven Russian defense-oriented companies fell into the list of the world’s 100 largest arms producers published by Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI). In total, they sell armaments for $411.1 bln in 2010; Russia’s portion was $18.6 bln. In 2009, nine Russian companies entered
Kongsberg Maritime has been selected to provide a range of rugged compact Power Over Ethernet (POE) cameras to Montreal-based L-3 MAPPS Inc. (L-3 MAPPS) as part of the Canadian Navy’s HALIFAX Class Frigate upgrade. The HALIFAX class frigate (hull designation FFH) is a class of 12 multi-role patrol f
Cathelco are supplying equipment for two force projection and command vessels, BPC Mistral Class, which are being built in France for the Russian Navy. DCNS will act as the prime contractor for the warships to be constructed at St -Nazaire, the first ship due for delivery in 2014. With a displacemen
The U. S. Navy has awarded General Dynamics Bath Iron Works, a subsidiary of General Dynamics , a $663 million modification to a previously awarded contract to construct DDG 116, an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer. DDG 116 is the fourth ship in the Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class constructio
Quantum Stabilizers, Inc. of Ft. Lauderdale, Florida have been recently awarded the contract for the refit and upgrade of the hydraulic stabilizer systems for the USCG’s next four WMEC 270 medium endurance cutters. After a successful development and delivery of the first system that was installed on
