Sailors aboard the Italian Navy’s minesweeper Gaeta recently put their mine-hunting technology to good use when they helped historians research the wreck of the Italian Navy destroyer ship Vincenzo Gioberti which was sunk in World War II. The Oriani-class destroyer was sunk by a British submarine, t
U.S. Navy’s guided-missile destroyer USS Mason, assigned to Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, participated in a multiship warning shot/disabling fire exercise during a composite training unit exercise in the Atlantic Ocean, April 4. “The warning and disabling exercise simulates a scenario where Mason
Royal Canadian Navy’s Halifax-class frigate HMCS Vancouver made history recently as it became the first modernized Canadian frigate to successfully test surface-to-surface missiles against a shore-based target. Vancouver launched the Harpoon Block II surface-to-surface missiles during the event that
The Australian Minister for Defence has announced that former HMA Ships Tobruk and Sydney will be offered to Australian states and territories for the creation of dive wrecks. After decades of service in the Royal Australian Navy, Tobruk and Sydney were decommissioned in July 2015 and November 2015
Video: US Navy The U.S. Navy’s 6th Fleet operating in Europe and Africa has shared a video of the Virginia-class attack submarine USS Missouri leaving Scotland after a visit to the Royal Navy’s submarine base in Faslane. The video was taken on October 30, 2015, while the submarine concluded her depl
FGS Baden-Württemberg, the lead ship of the F 125 class of frigates, has started builder’s sea trials. Over 60 soldiers from the future Crew Alpha, lead by their future Captain, have joined the frigate on her first sail from Hamburg to Cuxhaven, Germany. Over the next couple of weeks, the ship will
Royal Navy bomb disposal experts have detonated a German World War II torpedo found during a routine seabed survey in Scapa Flow on March 1. The torpedo is likely to have been one of those fired at HMS Royal Oak, as the battleship lay at anchor in Scapa Flow in 1939. The attack by the […]
The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a $38.2 million contract modification to provide additional missile canisters for the Mk 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS). The company will supply more than 300 canisters of various configurations that will be used to store, transport, and launch different kin
U.S. Navy’s guided-missile destroyer USS Stout (DDG 55) completed an inbound, high-speed boat training drill, March 28. Stout is underway conducting Composite Training Unit Exercise with the Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group, the final test the strike group will undergo in preparation for deployment.
Royal Australian Navy’s Adelaide-class guided missile frigate HMAS Darwin has completed its first patrol in the Middle East region, arriving into the Port of Muscat, Oman. The 23-day patrol within the Combined Maritime Forces will be the ship’s longest single stretch at sea during this deployment. D
The U.S. Navy is set to christen the newest Aegis-equipped guided missile destroyer Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) during an April 2 ceremony at Ingalls Shipbuilding facilities in Pascagoula, Mississippi. U.S. Navy’s 64th destroyer Ralph Johnson is the 30th destroyer Huntington Ingalls Industries has built
The Qatar Emiri Navy on March 30 signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the European missile system manufacturer MBDA for the delivery of a coastal defence missile system. According to MBDA, the MOU precedes a contract worth 2.64 billion Qatari riyals (approx. 640 million euros). The coasta
The U.S. Navy has awarded Huntington Ingalls Industries a $618 million contract modification to fund construction of the Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) guided missile destroyer DDG 123. The ship is the fourth of five destroyers the company was contracted to build in June 2013. Ingalls was previously a
Two Chinese warships have set sail for Indonesia and the second edition of the Indonesia-hosted multi-national exercise in waters off Padang, and Siberut and Sapura islands, Indonesia. Exercise Komodo, set to be held between April 12 – 16, 2016, will involve more than 30 countries from the Asia-Paci
