Thales UK has marked one year of successful operations for the Fully Integrated Communications System (FICS) onboard the Type 45 Destroyer, the Royal Navy’s most advanced class of surface ship. First of class HMS Daring was deployed operationally to the Arabian Gulf in 2012, followed by the operatio
HMS Portland, the Plymouth based frigate has conducted a successful home town visit to Portland and Weymouth between 17 – 20 May 13. The ship’s crew were hosted by the Mayor of Weymouth and Portland, Margaret Leicester, at a civic reception after exercising the ship’s crew’s right to parade through
Indian Coast Guard Ship Vaibhav, the 3rd in the series of 90 meters class Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) was commissioned yesterday at Tuticorin byVice Admiral Anurag G Thapliyal, Director General Indian Coast Guard. This 90 metres OPV has been designed and built indigenously by M/s GSL and is fitted
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMDSF) ships, landing ship tank JS Shimokita (LST 4002); destroyer JS Atago (DDG 177) and helicopter destroyer JS Hyuga (DDH 181) departed Pearl Harbor May 20 following a five-day port visit. During the visit JMSDF sailors conducted wreath-laying ceremonies at the
The Royal Navy River Class Offshore Patrol Vessel (RCOPV) HMS Mersey has been training 8 University Royal Naval Unit (URNU) students from P2000 University Patrol Unit HMS Biter in March and April. While HMS Biter had to undergo essential maintenance and was unable to provide an Easter “deployment” f
Hundreds of people paid tribute to the crew of HMS Edinburgh as they exercised their Freedom of the City, with a parade on the historic Royal Mile in Scotland’s capital city. Waved on by wellwishers, the 260-strong ship’s company made a poignant but celebratory progression through Edinburgh while be
USS Freedom (LCS 1) made its debut in Singapore May 14-19, participating in an international trade show and a maritime exercise with regional navies. Freedom also hosted thousands of visitors, from Singaporean citizens to senior government and military officials, during a series of ship tours. The w
The Oliver Hazard Perry-class guided-missile frigate USS Ford (FFG 54) completed exercise Trident Fury, returning to her homeport of Naval Station Everett, May 14. Exercise Trident Fury is a biennial joint and multinational naval training exercise led by the Royal Canadian navy and is designed to pr
Royal Navy’s former warship HMS Ark Royal is going to be scrapped, reports the BBC. The warship left Portsmouth for the last time and is now headed to Turkey. The vessel’s final destination is the same shipyard in Leyal that stripped down her sister ship, HMS Invincible. HMS Ark Royal is a decommiss
More than 40,000 active-duty service members, retirees and civilians from the Pacific Northwest gathered in Bremerton, Wash. to watch the 65th annual Armed Forces Day Parade May 18. The parade was presented by the Bremerton Chamber of Commerce as part of the city’s Armed Forces Festival to pay tribu
French Navy Aquitaine class Frigate paid a visit last month to the Big Apple, having spent 3 days in port at Naval Station Norfolk, Virginia. The frigate was busy conducting missions off the coast of New York City, showing off its capabilities ranging from anti-submarine warfare, air defence, escort
The commanding officer of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) and the sailor of the year led Stennis Sailors in the 65th Annual Armed Forces Day Parade in Bremerton, May 18. Capt. Ron Reis, Personnel Specialist First Class Marionogerad Zamora and more than 300 fellow Stenn
Guided-missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62), with a crew of approximately 300 Sailors, anchored in Shimoda, May 16 to participate in the city’s 74th annual Black Ship Festival. The festival promotes the peaceful relations between the Japanese and American people and commemorates the 159th anniv
HMAS Sydney closes up its flight deck team as an MH-60R (Romeo) from Helicopter Strike Squadron 77 from the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington makes its approach. To the casual observer this might appear to be just another helicopter about to land on the flight deck of an Austral
