The Sri Lankan port of Tricomalee welcomed two Chinese warships, “Jing Gangshan” and “Heng Shui”, yesterday, January 13th. “Jing Gangshan” is a Chinese Navy landing platform dock ship. She is 210 meters long and has a displacement of 19.035 tons. The other ship, “Heng Shui”, is a 134.1 meters long m
Having conducted sea trials from 9-13 December 2013 on board the L’Adroit Gowind-class Offshore Patrol Vessel, the French defence procurement agency (DGA), the French Navy and DCNS have validated the functional integration of an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) with the combat system of a warship as part
Russian two new missile corvettes have completed acceptance trials and are ready to enter service in the Caspian Flotilla, writes RIA Novosti. The new Buyan-M class ships, named Uglich and Grad Sviyazhsk, started sea trials in August and completed Kalibr-NK missiles tests during the trials. The Buya
Canadian Navy Submarine to Return to Service after Decade The Canadian Navy submarine HMCS Chicoutimi will return to the fleet almost a decade after a major fire onboard the ship, as reported by CBC news. British, Russian Ships Meet at Sea The Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer, HMS Defender, returned t
The Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer, HMS Defender, returned to Portsmouth yesterday having ensured safe passage of a Russian task group along the country’s coast. The Russian task group including a 65,000 tonne aircraft carrier, anchored in the Moray Firth due to bad weather. HMS Defender completed a
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ business division Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) has been awarded a USD 8.16 million contract for USS Gerald R. Ford. During the contract execution, NNS will perform all efforts necessary to procure, manage and deliver onboard repair parts in support of the USS Gerald
Goa Shipyard Ltd held a keel laying ceremony for the fourth of six new Indian Coast Guard’s Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV) on January 9th 2014. The class is specifically designed and built by Goa Shipyard for the Coast Guard. The contract for building the six vessels was signed on May 9, 2012, and th
BAE Systems Norfolk Ship Repair has received a 13.89 million contract for the planned maintenance work on USS Wasp (LHD 1). The dry-docking planned maintenance availability will update and improve USS Wasp’s military and technical capabilities. Under the contract, BAE Systems will plan and execute d
The new aircraft carrier of the Indian Navy, INS Vikramaditya, has docked at her homeport of Karwar, Karnataka, the Mangalore Today writes. The 284-meter long warship headed from Russia to India on 27 November 2013, and arrived to the Kadamba Naval Base on Tuesday, January 7th 2014. INS Vikramaditya
The U.S. Navy is moving two guided-missile destroyers, USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) and USS Preble (DDG 88), to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, this summer as a way of boosting Aegis capabilities to Commander of Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific (CNSGMP), the Navy said in a release yesterday. USS J
Seattle based Vigor Shipyards Inc. has received a USD 33 million contract for repair and alteration of a US Navy ship. The ship, named USS Moomsen, with a hull number DDG 92, will undergo a docking selected restricted availability, which is primarily aimed at conducting repair and alteration to a sh
After a long maintenance period, which involved more than 140,000 hours of contracted work, coupled with some manning constraints, the crew of the Australian Navy’s long-range escort frigate HMAS Darwin had to fine-tune their skills in order to get ready for the scheduled deployment for Operation SL
Italian Navy frigate named ITS Libeccio has completed a port visit to Dar Es Saalam in Tanzania as part of EU Naval Force mission. The ship’s crew conducted anti-piracy training with the Tanzanian Navy on Tuesday 24th December. As part of the visit, ITS Libeccio’s company visited a local orphanage l
A Chinese warship arrived in Cyprus on Saturday, (January 4, 2014) as part of the international mission to remove chemical weapons from the country, Reuters writes. Norwegian and Danish convoy is currently in international waters off Syria and waiting for the Chinese frigate Yancheng to begin removi
