Maritime forces from three continents are set to begin the sixth iteration of the annual multinational maritime exercise Cutlass Express on January 31. Units from East Africa, West Indian Ocean nations, Europe, and the United States, as well as several international organizations will converge for n
U.S. Navy’s Carl Vinson carrier strike group recently tested its units with an undersea warfare exercise (USWEX) that was completed off the coast of Hawaii, January 14. The 96-hour USWEX involved aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70), Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Champlain (
The Indian Navy kicked off its annual theatre readiness operational exercise (TROPEX) on January 24. Over the course of the next 30 days, ships and aircraft of both the Western and Eastern Naval Commands, including assets from the Indian Air Force, Indian Army and the Indian Coast Guard exercise tog
FGS Baden-Württemberg, the lead ship of the German Navy’s F 125 frigates, was delivered to the navy last year and is currently underway, carrying out tests and training. Back in July 2016, Captain at sea Michael Budde, Commander of the German Navy’s 2nd Flotilla, said the Baden Württemberg needs to
Spanish Navy minehunter ESPS Duero departed Cartagena, Spain to join the standing NATO mine countermeasures group two. Duero and her crew are scheduled to spend over two months with the international group before heading home in April. During this deployment in the Mediterranean and Black Seas, the
German Navy’s diver support vessel FGS Rottweil is scheduled to depart its homeport in Kiel, Germany, on January 30, to join NATO’s standing mine countermeasure group two. The vessel and her crew will spend the next five months sailing with the SNMCMG2. Coming from the German Navy’s 3rd Mine Warfare
The lead ship of Royal Australian Navy’s Anzac-class frigates departed Fleet Base East in Sydney for the first time in 2017 to begin her deployment work ups. HMAS Anzac sailed out in formation with HMA Ships Melbourne and Parramatta. Coming out of a maintenance period, Anzac headed for the East Aust
U.S. Navy’s forward-deployed amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20) set sail from its base of Sasebo, Japan on January 25 for a routine patrol in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. While on patrol, Green Bay and Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) will participate in exer
NATO ships and aircraft are escorting the Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov and its carrier strike group transiting the English Channel en route home from Syria. Vessels from Germany, the Netherlands, Belgium, Portugal and Great Britain have all at one point formed part of a fleet of ships
The Italian city of Cagliari was the port visit of choice for the new flagship of NATO’s standing mine counter measures group two. Polish flagship, ORP Kontradmiral Xawery Czernicki (511), arrived in Cagliari on January 21 on its first port call since joining SNMCMG2. The ship and crew arrived to It
Ships from the Russian Pacific Fleet completed their visit to Japan on January 23 where they took part in maneuvering and search and rescue exercises in the Sea of Japan. Two Russian ships, ASW destroyer Admiral Tributs and fleet tanker Boris Butoma arrived at Japanese port of Maizuru on January 21.
The U.S. Navy announced it will be staging force protection drills within the continental United States (CONUS) at the end of January. Naval installations are set to conduct exercise Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield 2017 (SC-CS17) from January 30 to February 10. SC-CS17 is a two-part, anti-terrorism/for
Moraitime forces commanders of Australia and Japan met in the Australian city of Cowra in New South Wales to commemorate the lives lost in the ‘Cowra Breakout’ during the Second World War. Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, Admiral Yutaka Murakawa, was undertaking a counterpart visit to Australia, f
Members of the Canadian Armed Forces (CAF) who recently joined operation Artemis to lead Combined Task Force (CTF) 150 with their Australian colleagues completed their first focused operation just days after arriving in Bahrain and taking command. Operation Queenston, which took place from December
