Royal Australian Navy’s Cairns-based hydrographic group has recently received several CEESCOPE™ 200 kHz single beam echo sounder survey systems. According to CEE HydroSystems, the waterproof single beam 200 kHz sonar systems were supplied with built in RTK GNSS receivers, UHF radio, and activated L-
Sailors aboard the Royal Australian Navy’s frigate HMAS Anzac formed the number 20 on the flight deck to mark the ship’s 20th Birthday at sea during the South East Asia Deployment 2016. The lead ship of the Anzac class of frigates was launched on September 16, 1994 and commissioned May 18, 1996. Ten
The Indian Navy’s Eastern Fleet, under the command of Rear Admiral SV Bhokare, Flag Officer Commanding Eastern Fleet, sailed out on May 18 on a two-and-a-half month long operational deployment to the South China and North West Pacific. Indigenously built guided missile stealth frigates, IN Ships Sat
The Royal Australian Navy formally commissioned the Brisbane Navy Headquarters – South Queensland as HMAS Moreton during a ceremony held May 14. Chief of Navy, Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, was joined by government officials to mark the significant occasion. “The Navy last commissioned an establishment
Chief of the Royal Australian Navy Vice Admiral Tim Barrett, welcomed his French counterpart, Admiral Bernard Rogel, in Canberra, Australia last week for a series of meetings aimed at strengthening the relationship between the two navies. The visit comes in the wake of the Australian Government’s de
U.S. Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance became the first U.S. warship to dock in the Kingdom of Tonga as it completed a four-day port call in the northern port of the kingdom, May 10. In 2011, USS Cleveland (LPD 7) anchored offshore, as did USS Pearl Harbor (LSD 52) in
Australian-based shipbuilder Austal has announced that littoral combat ship 8 (LCS 8), the future USS Montgomery, successfully completed U.S. Navy acceptance trials. The trials, the last significant milestone before delivery involved comprehensive testing of the vessel’s major systems and equipment
The lead ship of Royal Australian Navy’s Anzac-class guided missile frigates, HMAS Anzac, will be on a visit to Manila from May 16 to 21, 2016 as part of its current deployment around South-East Asia. On sailing from Manila, Anzac will exercise with the Philippine Navy’s BRP Rajah Humabon in the wat
French Navy’s d’Entrecasteaux, the first of four B2M multi-mission ships, on May 11 sailed from Brest, France to join her new homeport in Noumea, New Caledonia. The ship will now go through a period of at-sea trial before it is commissioned into active duty Once she arrives in Noumea in late July, t
Crewmembers aboard the U.S. Navy’s hospital ship USNS Mercy (T-AH 19) recently participated in an abandon ship drill while in its homeport at Naval Base San Diego. Mercy is preparing for Pacific Partnership 2016, the largest annual multilateral humanitarian assistance and disaster relief preparednes
The Royal Australian Navy has joined the fight against illegal fishing around Niue, securing greater maritime patrols of the Pacific island nation’s waters by having neighboring countries’ boats patrol Niue waters. The agreement was reached during a planning conference on Niue held in late April. Ma
The Royal Australian Navy has recently signed a five-year contract for the lease of inflatable life rafts with improved servicing requirements. Under the contract with Survitec, a marine safety solutions provider, the existing fleet of inflatable life rafts will be replaced with leased commercial in
Despite of the fact that Australia did not choose Japan to build its submarines, the two countries are deepening their defense relationship, this time with a Royal Australian Navy submarine visiting Japan. Less than a month ago a visit of a Japanese Soryu-class submarine marked the first time a Japa
Australia has contracted Spanish shipbuilder Navantia to build two replacement replenishment ships for the Royal Australian Navy. Although the ships would be built in Spain and not in Australia, what the government opposition objected to, Australian Defence minister Marise Payne said that more than
