Apache helicopter pilots have found their sea legs on the unfamiliar setting of HMS Illustrious. The newly-refitted helicopter carrier – fresh from her £40m refit – has swapped Harrier jets for the imposing outlines of the Army gunships. Crews from 664 Squadron, 4 Regiment Army Air Corps, took the c
Secretary of Defense Leon E. Panetta announced July 21, the President has made the following nominations: Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert for reappointment to the rank of admiral and for assignment as chief of naval operations, Pentagon, Washington, D.C. Greenert is currently serving as vice chief of Nava
The RAF and Royal Navy have been involved in a number of precision attacks to protect Libyan civilians over the last few days as part of NATO’s Operation UNIFIED PROTECTOR. In the early hours of Monday morning, RAF Tornado and Typhoon aircraft returned for a second night of precision strikes against
Sailors aboard the amphibious transport dock ship USS New Orleans (LPD 18) departed Naval Base Point Loma July 20 following a six-day deperming evolution in preparation for the ship’s scheduled deployment. Deperming a ship reduces the ship’s magnetic signature. Naval Base Point Loma is the only stat
The first unit of Maritime Action Ship (BAM), “Meteoro”, for the Spanish Navy has successfully finalized the last sea trials, prior to her commissioning on 28th. July. These sea trials have taken place on 17th. and 18th. July, in order to test the perfect performance of the platform and combat syste
Kollmorgen Corp, Northampton, Mass., is being awarded a not-to-exceed $23,501,954 undefinitized contract action under previously awarded firm-fixed price, cost-plus-fixed fee, cost-only contract (N00024-11-C-5447) for the fiscal 2011 MK 20 MOD 0 Electro-Optical Sensor System units, including associa
The aircraft carrier Admiral Gorshkov that India bought in 2004 is shaping up well to begin its sea trials in a couple of months, Indian Nav… (prokerala) [mappress] Source: prokerala, July 21, 2011;
The city of Townsville welcomed the forward-deployed amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42) Sailors and embarked Marines with the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) to the city during an official ceremony held at the Army Museum North Queensland July 8. Germantown is in Townsville, A
The fifth and final phase of Pacific Partnership 2011 (PP11) has come to an end with the departure of the PP11 team from the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM). The flagship for the mission, USS Cleveland, arrived in the FSM on 3 July with representatives from the Australian, Canadian, Malaysian,
Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) announced today it was awarded a prime contract by the Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Carderock Division to provide advanced engineering and technical services in support of the U.S. Navy Ship Signatures Directorate and signature silencing p
Intevac Photonics, Inc., Santa Clara, Calif., is being awarded a $9,596,806 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for research and development that will improve and characterize the performance of the ISIE4000 electron bombarded active pixel sensor night vision camera in support of variou
USS Samuel B. Roberts (FFG 58), along with embarked staff arrived in Mombasa, Kenya, July 19, to begin their involvement with Africa Partnership Station (APS) East’s 2011 Kenyan hub. The Kenyan hub brings more than 85 maritime professionals from seven partner nations together for training designed t
INS Godavari has successfully foiled a piracy attempt on a Greek ship MV Elinakos in the Gulf of Aden. Eight Somali pirates attempted to hijack the Greek ship in the early morning of 16 Jul. INS Godavari was escorting four other ships at the time in the Gulf of Aden, when she received the distress [
An Estonian lieutenant, a Polish midshipman and four Finnish midshipmen embarked guided-missile frigate USS Carr (FFG 52) during the ship’s deployment to the Baltic Sea, July 18. The multinational group will use this opportunity to learn how the U.S. Navy conducts underway operations. “Anytime we ca
