Sensors & Combat Systems
Welcome Home HMS Pembroke
Royal Navy mine hunter HMS Pembroke returned home on Thursday, April 23, to HM Naval Base Clyde following a four-month deployment. The Sandown Class Mine Counter Measures Vessel has been assigned to NATO’s Mine Counter Measures Group 1 since January this year, operating in the Baltic and North Sea.
Russian Navy’s Vessels Leave Avacha Bay for Training
Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet vessels departed the Avacha Bay to undertake training. The tactical strike group of small missile ships is scheduled to undertake missile launching at air targets and artillery firing near the Shipunsky Peninsula, Pacific Ocean. Also planned are mine search and detection
Somaliland CG Trains with HNLMS Johan de Witt
Crewmembers from EU Naval Force flagship, HNLMS Johan de Witt, have trained young officers from the Somaliland Coast Guard off the coast of Berbera. On 23 and 24 April the young officers were invited on board Johan de Witt’s landing craft, and with the assistance of an interpreter, they were given t
Canadian Navy’s Kingston Class Vessels to Get Gyrocompass Systems
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s Sperry Marine business unit has been selected to design and supply gyrocompass navigation systems for 12 Kingston Class coastal defence vessels for the Royal Canadian Navy, as a subcontractor to SNC-Lavalin Defence Programs Inc. The contract will include Dual NAVIGAT X
USS TR Back in the Arabian Gulf
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) escorted by USS Normandy (CG 60), transited the Strait of Hormuz from its station in the Arabian Sea to the Arabian Gulf April 24, to rejoin other U.S. and coalition forces supporting Operation Inherent Resolve. Theodore Roosevelt and Normandy had
USS Russell Hosts US State Department Official
The officers and crew of the guided missile destroyer USS Russell (DDG 59) provided a ship’s tour and brief on the Navy’s important role in ballistic missile defense (BMD) to a high ranking U.S. State Department official, April 17. Dr. Amanda Sloat, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State in the Bureau
VolkerStevin to Prepare HMNB Portsmouth for New Aircraft Carriers
VolkerStevin has been awarded a £34m design and build contract to reconstruct the jetty at Her Majesty’s Naval Base Portsmouth (HMNB Portsmouth) to house the new Queen Elizabeth Class Aircraft Carriers. HMNB Portsmouth will be home to two new aircraft carriers – HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince Of
US Maintains Maritime Security in the Arabian Sea
The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt and the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy are now operating in the Arabian Sea in response to the deteriorating security situation in Yemen, a US Defense Department spokesman said. Briefing the Pentagon press corps yesterday morning, Army Col. Steve Warr
US Navy Receives Ship Hull Inspection Systems
Bluefin Robotics has successfully delivered new vehicles to the United States Navy that will increase the Navy’s capability to remotely search and investigate ship hulls, harbor sea floors, and other underwater infrastructure for limpet mines, Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) and other objects of
MacArtney to Equip FREMM Frigates with Connectivity Solutions
MacArtney Underwater Technology has been awarded the contract to supply SubConn underwater connectivity solutions for the cutting-edge, bow mounted sonar systems that are essential to the impressive undersea threat detection and response capability of the advanced FREMM frigates currently operated b
GHWB Hosts Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Adm. James A. Winnefeld Jr. visited USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) (GHWB) Sailors to observe flight operations and tour the Navy’s last Nimitz-class aircraft carrier in the Atlantic Ocean April 17. Winnefeld flew aboard GHWB in a C-2A Greyhound and met with
SSBN Le Triomphant Enters Testing Phase
After 20 months of maintenance and upgrading in dock no. 8 at the Brest naval base, the nuclear ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) Le Triomphant was transferred to the operational base at Ile Longue, Brittany, on Tuesday, April 14. Work on the vessel is continuing for DCNS and its partners. Le Triom
Construction of Egyptian Navy’s First GOWIND Corvette Starts
DCNS started cutting metal for the very first GOWIND® 2500 corvette under construction in Lorient, in the presence of high representatives of the Egyptian Navy. This vessel is the first of a series of four units that will be delivered to Egypt before 2019. The cutting of the first metal sheets for t
Indian Navy Launches INS Visakhapatnam
During a ceremony held yesterday at Mazagaon Dock Limited (MDL), Mumbai, the Indian Navy launched its first ship of Project – 15B, Guided Missile Destroyer. The vessel, christened ‘Visakhapatnam’, is the first of four ships of Project 15B being built at MDL. The vessel have been designed indigenousl