Type 42 destroyer HMS Edinburgh will leave Portsmouth on Monday (September 24), on her final deployment, conducting routine operations across the Atlantic. It marks a historic milestone for both the ship and the Royal Navy as it will be the last time a Type 42 destroyer deploys on operations as they
Raytheon Company has received an $8.7 million modification to a previously awarded production contract to provide the U.S. Navy with Joint Tactical Terminal Senior (JTT-Sr) radios that are compatible with the new Common Interactive Broadcast (CIB) waveform and contain the latest security, hardware a
Concerns exist about the MoD’s capacity to manage the risk created by the capability gap in maritime surveillance and about its ability to react to demand in the short and medium term, says the Defence Committee in its report, published yesterday, entitled “Future Maritime Surveillance”. The Committ
HMS Ambush – the second of the Navy’s planned flotilla of seven Astute-class submarines – yesterday made her debut in Scotland as she arrived at Faslane. The £1bn boat has spent the past four days undergoing trials on the 200-mile journey from the yard where she was built to her new home. The £1bn [
USS Carr (FFG 52) offloaded 4,134 pounds of marijuana, worth 4 million dollars recovered during Countering Transnational Organized Crime (CTOC) operations in the U.S. 4th Fleet (C4F) area of responsibility in support of Operation Martillo, Sept. 17. During a routine night patrol in the Western Carib
Amphibious transport dock ship USS Green Bay (LPD 20) departed Naval Base San Diego, Sept. 17 with the Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group (PELARG) and 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) for a scheduled deployment to the Western Pacific. In addition to Green Bay, the Peleliu ARG consists of amphibious
HMS Raleigh has a new man at the helm with Captain Bob Fancy relieving Captain Steve Murdoch as the Commanding Officer of the Torpoint based Royal Navy training establishment. Captain (Capt) Fancy, aged 48, was welcomed to HMS Raleigh by a guard of honour made up of new recruits. He joined the Royal
After 51 years of distinguished service, the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise (CVN 65) will inactivate on Dec. 1, 2012, in a ceremony to be held at Norfolk Naval Station, in Norfolk, Va. The inactivation ceremony will be the last official public event for the ship, and will serve as a celebration of
Frigate INS Trikand, the last out of three Project 11356 ships built by Yantar shipyard for Indian Navy started dockside trials on Sept 15… (rusnavy) [mappress] Source: Russian Navy, September 20, 2012; Image: Yantar
The Navy will commission the Freedom-variant littoral combat ship Fort Worth (LCS 3) Sept. 22, during a 10 a.m. CDT ceremony at the Port of Galveston, Texas. The ship’s name honors the city of Fort Worth, Texas, which has supported the U.S. military as home to ranger outposts, training facilities, a
HMAS Sirius showed off her might in the recent ‘Sail Morotai’ deployment which, after a successful departure from Exercise KAKADU 2012, saw her transit from Darwin to the small island of Morotai, Indonesia. Located in the North Maluku Province, Morotai is Indonesia’s northernmost island and home to
Fresh from winning the Gunnery Prize during RIMPAC 2012 in Hawaii, HMAS Perth has followed up with a successful series of gunnery exercises for Exercise KAKADU 2012. In company with KRI Frans Kaisepo¸ JDS Shimakaze and HTMS Rattanakosin, Perth fired its five inch gun down range in the North Australi
One of the inaugural steps in preparing Royal Navy sailors to man the first of the Queen Elizabeth class carriers due in 2016 has been taken with the opening of a brand new training facility. The 65,000 tonne carrier – which weighs three times as much as HMS Illustrious – is currently being assemble
The “Fighting Tigers” of Patrol Squadron (VP) 8 once again took time out of their busy schedules, volunteering to help the Misawa community by participating in the 2012 Misawa Special Olympics, Sept. 15th. The mission of Special Olympics is to provide year-round sports training and athletic competit
