The crew of the U.S. Coast Guard Cutter James Rankin, a 175-foot buoy tender homeported in Baltimore, set the historic Francis Scott Key buoy in the Patapsco River near the Francis Scott Key Bridge. The buoy is set to symbolically mark the location where the ship carrying Francis Scott Key, the auth
Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer HMS Defender on June 7 seized over a metric tonne of high grade hashish being trafficked across the Indian Ocean. Operating with the Royal Navy-led Combined Task Force (CTF) 150, Defender intercepted a suspect fishing dhow off the south coast of Oman. A search of the v
Germany’s Kiel Week is the largest sailing event in the world held annually in the last complete week in June. This year, the event will start June 18 and finish June 26. Apart from numerous boats taking part in races, the event is graced by a number of German and international navy vessels. German
After receiving four U.S. Navy ship maintenance contracts in May this year, BAE Systems has now been awarded a $53.43 million contract for work on the U.S. Navy destroyer USS Russel (DDG-59). Under the contract, the company will perform selected restricted availability (SRA) on the Flight I Arleigh
Sailors aboard the U.S. Navy oldest aircraft carrier in service, the USS Nimitz (CVN 68), joined Naval Base Kitsap Sailors, Puget Sound Naval Shipyard workers and veterans for a Battle of Midway ceremony held on Pier Charlie on Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton, June 3. The ceremony honored all the servic
Following drills with the Malaysian Armed Forces, the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps will join the Armed Forces of the Philippines for the next stage in this year’s CARAT exercises. CARAT Philippines is taking place June 6-10 in multiple locations across the Philippines and in waters near Subic Bay and
The U.S. Navy’s Carrier Strike Group attached to the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman conducted combat sorties from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea June 3, in support of Operation Inherent Resolve over Syria and Iraq. The Carrier Strike Group transited the Suez Canal June 2 and fle
Atlas Elektronik and Magellan Aerospace have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to collaborate on the development of rocket motor and warhead sections of the SeaSpider Anti-Torpedo Torpedo (ATT). Once completed, the SeaSpider will provide ATT capability for hard-kill defence against all torpedoes
The Chinese Navy will take part in the U.S.-hosted multinational maritime exercise RIMPAC 2016, despite mounting tensions between the two countries amid the South China Sea dispute. One missile destroyer, a missile frigate, a supply ship, a hospital ship and a submarine rescue vessel augmented by tw
U.S. Navy’s aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower, with about 7,000 sailors attached to its carrier strike group, departed Naval Station Norfolk for a deployment to the U.S. 5th and 6th Fleet areas of operations. The IKE CSG is deploying to relieve the Harry S. Truman Strike Group supporting air
A three-ship Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) training squadron (JTS) began a three-day port visit at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam June 1 as part of an around the world deployment to 16 ports in 13 countries. During the port visit, Adm. Scott Swift, commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, toured
U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Stout (DDG 55) completed the multinational search and rescue exercise Argonaut on May 31. Stout worked in conjunction with naval forces from host nation the Republic of Cyprus, France, Greece, Hungary, Italy, the State of Israel and the Un
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (NYSE:HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division authenticated the keel of the destroyer Delbert D. Black (DDG 119) on June 1, 2016. DDG 119 is the third ship in the FY2013-FY2017 multi-year procurement contract to start fabrication. The future USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) has
Australian-based shipbuilder Austal announced that it was awarded four separate post-shakedown availability (PSA) contracts by the U.S. Navy for littoral combat ships (LCS) 6 and 8. According to Austal, the contracts are worth over US$4.9 million in total. On May 6, 2016, Austal was awarded a $11.8
