US Navy aircraft carrier USS John C. Stennis (CVN 74) departed Naval Base Kitsap-Bremerton on November 3 to start the next round of training to prepare for future operations. The carrier recently completed planned incremental availability and subsequent flight deck certification. During their previo
Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer HMS Dragon returned to Portsmouth on Thursday, November 2, wrapping up a series of exercises. Upon returning home, the destroyer fired a rare 17-gun salute to hail the First Sea Lord’s presence in Portsmouth. The number of guns fired designates the seniority of the rec
US Navy’s guided-missile destroyer USS O’Kane (DDG 77) got underway from its Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam on November 3 to start an independent deployment to the Western Pacific. While deployed, the ship will conduct theater security cooperation and maritime presence operations with partner nation
US Navy’s littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) completed a 14-month deployment to Southeast Asia departing Singapore on November 4. Coronado is the first Independence-variant LCS to deploy to the US 7th Fleet as part of an initiative to deploy multiple LCS to the Indo-Asia-Pacific region in jus
South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries launched the fourth and final Republic of Korea Navy LST-2 tank landing ship on November 2. The 4,500-ton ship was launched at HHI’s Ulsan shipyard with pennant number 689. According to an announcement from the Republic of South Korea Navy, the vesse
UK worker union GMB has slammed the UK government’s decision to put up an international tender for the construction of three Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels, saying the decision “udermined the national interest”. The union further said that all Royal Navy and RFA ships should be built domestically and
Cruisers and destroyers responsible for protecting the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) honed their sharpshooting skills in multiple live-fire exercises, testing both sailors and equipment. The drill took place November 1, shortly after USS Harry S. Truman and surface ships from
The US Fleet Command/US Tenth Fleet announced Thursday that all US Navy cyber mission force teams achieved full operational capability (FOC). The 40 teams were qualified by US Cyber Command October 6, meaning they reached full operational capability almost a year ahead of schedule. The focus of US C
Royal Navy’s hydrographic survey ship HMS Enterprise recently surveyed the wrecks of Royal Navy ships lost in the Falklands War to mark the 35th anniversary of the South Atlantic conflict. HMS Coventry was scanned lying with her port side buried in the sea bed. The separated remains of HMS Antelope,
US Navy personnel from the Forward Deployed Regional Maintenance Center (FDRMC) Detachment Rota, Spain, completed a 60-day surface incremental availability (SIA) on destroyer USS Carney (DDG 64), Oct. 27. “This was the second SIA conducted in Rota, Spain and continues the record of on-time availabil
Aerospace and defense company L3 Technologies announced it has joined Boeing’s team to design next-generation communications, mission planning, autonomy, navigation, cybersecurity and anti-tamper capabilities for the US Navy’s Extra Large Unmanned Undersea Vehicle (XLUV). L3 said it is integrating t
The US Navy is set to christen its 68th Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, the future USS Delbert D. Black, in a ceremony on Saturday in Pascagoula, Mississippi. The ceremony will take place at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ shipyard which launched the ship on September 8, 2017. The ship is configured a
The US Coast Guard commissioned its 24th fast response cutter (FRC), Oliver Berry, in a ceremony in Honolulu on October 31. The cutter is the first FRC stationed in Hawaii and in the Coast Guard’s Fourteenth District, which covers more than 12 million square miles of land and sea in the Western and
Amid reduced funding for spares across all the UK armed forces, the Royal Navy has increased equipment cannibalization by 49% in the last five years, a report published by the UK National Audit Office says. While equipment cannibalization can be necessary – and authorized by the defense ministry – i
