The guns of HMS Dragon blazed for the first time as she completed gunnery trials on the eve of her maiden visit to Cardiff. The latest Type 45 destroyer let loose with her main 4.5in gun and 30mm cannon at targets on the water and in the skies as she took another big step towards […]
Project 667BDRM nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) Verkhoturye will leave covered slipway of Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center on March 24, 2012. Works on the sub’s technical recovery and service life extension started in the fall of 2010. Since that time, the shipyard has carried out re
150 Royal Navy personnel have been taking part in a major medical exercise off the UK’s south west coast on board Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) vessel Argus. Wearing white anti-flash overalls and face masks, as if at war, the hospital unit and crew of the ship rehearsed taking on board and treating ca
Trials of nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) Yury Dolgoruky held by Severodvinsk defense companies have reached closing phase. “We expect Yury Dolgoruky to arrive this year”, says Rear Admiral Igor Muhametshin, Northern Fleet (NF) Submarine Force Commander. “Borei project is new and
USS Louisiana (SSBN 743) welcomed a new commanding officer for its Gold Crew March 16. Cmdr. Robert Peters relieved Cmdr. Joseph Turk during the ballistic missile submarine’s change-of-command ceremony at the Naval Undersea Museum. “Team Louisiana, you are a group of elite professionals doing an inc
Military parades associated with the 67-th anniversary of the Victory in the Great Patriotic War will take place in the hero cities and towns where headquarters of military districts and fleets (including Caspian Flotilla) are located, i.e. in 23 Russian cities and in Sevastopol as agreed upon with
USS Spruance (DDG 111) set the Navy record for distance while firing a missile during Combat Systems Ship Qualification Trial (CSSQT), March 13. Spruance culminated its eighth week of CSSQT events with a record-setting missile shoot. “The crew is probably getting tired of me saying ‘first ever’ or ‘
Guided-missile destroyer USS Benfold (DDG 65) hosted the Mexican commander of the second naval zone, as well as other officers and dignitaries March 15. Mexican navy Adm. Anselmo Diaz Cid was given a tour of Benfold’s new Integrated Bridge and Engineering Plant as well as the Combat Information Cent
Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors has been awarded a $20,000,000 modification to a previously awarded contract for integration, installation, and testing of the Aegis combat Systems on DDG 51-class ships. Through this contract, Lockheed Martin will provide planning, technical data package
Journalists of northwestern media agencies were invited onboard Baltic Fleet (BF) corvette Stereguschiy on the eve of Leningrad Naval Base anniversary. To demonstrate service conditions of naval mariners, Western Military District Press Service on March 16 invited reporters on board the most up-to-d
The future USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112), and the final ship of the original 62-ship procurement of the DDG 51 class shipbuilding program, successfully completed a combined builder’s and acceptance “super trial” Mar. 9, after spending four days underway in the Atlantic Ocean. Because of the maturity
The future USS San Diego (LPD 22) departed Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard, March 15, “sailing away” from the building yard manned for the first time by the ship’s crew. This milestone marks the end of production for LPD 22, the sixth ship of the San Antonio class of amphi
Guided-missile submarine USS Ohio (SSGN 726) (Gold) welcomed a new commanding officer during a change of command ceremony the Naval Undersea Museum March 9. Capt. Rodney Mills relieved Capt. Dixon Hicks. The ceremony came just three days after Ohio, with its Blue Crew aboard, returned to the Pacific
New infrastructure is to be constructed in Vilyuchinsk before new submarines armed with SLBM Bulava arrive at the base, writes Izvestiya. Mooring quay for Borei-class subs will be constructed on the Rybachy Peninsula to the right of the piers where Calmar-, Schuka-, Paltus-, and Antei-class subs are
