Indian Goa Shipyards Ltd launched an ‘Advanced Offshore Patrol Vessel’ for the Sri Lanka Navy on June 10. The launching ceremony in Goa was attended by the secretary to the Ministry of Defence and the Sri Lanka Navy commander among other dignitaries. The 105 meter long 13.6 meter wide ship will cost
Gas leakage on the Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya killed two people, including one sailor, on June 10 at Karwar in Karnataka where the ship is undergoing overhauls. Two more persons were injured during the incident in which the workers inhaled toxic fumes while repairing the ship’s sewage
U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) held a change of command ceremony at the Washington Navy Yard on June 10. Vice Adm. Thomas J. Moore relieved Vice Adm. William H. Hilarides who led the Command during the previous three years. Moore graduated from the United State Naval Academy in 1981 with a
U.S. Navy’s next generation aircraft carrier and the most expensive ship it ever built, the Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), completed its turn ship evolution June 11 at Huntington Ingalls’ Newport News Shipbuilding facility. This operation marks the first time Ford has moved from its pier since coming out
Former U.S. Navy research vessel R/V Melville, now BRP Gregorio Velasquez, arrived to Manila, Philippines today, June 10 as the Philippine Navy’s first dedicated research vessel. The U. S. Navy transferred ownership of BRP Gregorio Velasquez to the Philippine on April 27, 2016. The 279 feet (85m) lo
Naval ships, aircraft and personnel from India, Japan and the United States started the annual exercise Malabar 2016, June 9 in Sasebo, Japan. The harbour phase will be taking place in Sasebo until June 13 and the sea phase will have participants conducting drills in the Philippine Sea from June 14
Spanish frigate ESPS Santa Maria, currently deployed to Operation Atalanta, recently participated in an exercise with Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (JMSDF) ships JS Yuudachi and JS Yuugiri in the Gulf of Aden. The three warships sailed together in close formation and their Seahawk helicopters to
Japan has summoned the Chinese ambassador to protest a Chinese warship entering disputed East China Sea waters near the Senkaku Islands. A Chinese Jiangkai I class frigate, as the ship was identified by the Japanese destroyer Setogiri, entered the waters June 8, Kyodo News quoted the Japanese Foreig
U.S. Navy’s USS Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (Ike CSG) entered the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations June 8 thereby joining the USS Harry S. Truman which already operates in the eastern Mediterranean. While Ike CSG is involved in Great Green Fleet activities and operations, Harry S. Tru
The U.S. Navy has awarded Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training $10.86 million for full ship shock trials support (FSST) for the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship USS Milwaukee (LCS-5). Under the contract, Lockheed Martin is to provide emergent availability planning and execution and test
The Royal Navy has marked the centenary of the sinking of the cruiser HMS Hampshire in Orkney with the loss of 737 men, just days after she had survived the historic Battle of Jutland. The two services included a two-minute silence at 8.45pm, the time of the sinking, signalled by the firing of a Sal
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
Two months after a Russian naval group was escorted through the English Channel, a Royal Navy warship is following a Russian submarine in the same region since June 5. Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigate HMS Kent located the Kilo class submarine Stary Oskol in the North Sea on Sunday, and shadowed it as it
