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November 27, 2020 – HMAS Arunta has returned to Fleet Base West in Western Australia after 164 days at sea, strengthening relations in the Indo-Pacific. Arunta concluded three months on a regional presence deployment as part of a five ship task group in October, taking part in a series of Southeast Asia and Pacific engagements. The frigate then briefly returned…
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November 26, 2020 – More than 200 UK jobs will be supported by a newly-signed contract to build technologically advanced autonomous systems able to defeat modern sea mine threats while reducing risks to life during Royal Navy mine hunting operations. Following a successful demonstration phase and trials, the UK has invested £184 million in the Maritime Mine Counter Measures (MMCM)…
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December 1, 2020 – The first Indigenous supplier contracted for the Hunter-class frigate program’s prototyping phase has been announced. BAE Systems Australia’s subsidiary, ASC Shipbuilding, signed a contract with Indigenous Defence & Infrastructure Consortium and its consortium partner TQCSI-Yaran recently. Former AFL footballer and Indigenous Defence & Infrastructure Consortium Chief Executive Officer Adam Goodes said the company was delighted to…
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November 30, 2020 (Google Translation) – Five ships, a Cessna aircraft and the Navy’s Maritime Action Operations and Surveillance Center are part of the more than 1,500 activated military personnel. Since last November 28, the Navy has participated in the Synergy 01-20 activation with the maritime action vessels Audaz and Meteoro, the patrol boat Serviola, the Segura and Sella minehunters…
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December 1, 2020 – Steel cutting ceremony of the Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Crafts (ASWSWCs) for Indian Navy was held on 01 Dec 2020 at Cochin Shipyard Limited, Kochi. Vice Admiral G Ashok Kumar, PVSM, AVSM, VSM, Vice Chief of Naval Staff, Indian Navy declared through video conferencing the commencement of steel cutting of first steel plate for Ship No.…
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November 27, 2020 (Google Translation) – In the Novorossiysk naval base (naval base), solemn events were held to admit the new patrol ship “Pavel Derzhavin” to the Black Sea Fleet. Before the commencement of the ceremony of raising the Andreevsky flag, the rite of its consecration was held on the pier. On the beginning of service in the Russian Navy,…
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November 29, 2020 (Google Translation) – In response to media reports that “Taiwan is the largest buyer of U.S. arms sales, this year the Chinese people will pay an average of NT$14,500.” The Ministry of Defense today (29) explained as follows: 1. This year, the U.S. notified the Congress of 7 military sales to Taiwan, including the MK-48 heavy line-guided…
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November 27, 2020 (Google Translation) – Since the beginning of October, the Center d’Expertise des Programs Naval (CEPN) has been present for the mine warfare equipment demonstration phase of the MMCM (Maritime Mine Counter Measures) program. These prototypes, for which the Navy will conduct operational evaluations from spring 2021, prefigure the mine warfare capabilities integrated into the SLAM-F (Futur Anti-Mine…
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November 27, 2020 (Google Translation) – In Kamchatka, the crews of the Il-38 anti-submarine squadron of the Troops and Forces in the North-East of Russia completed missions in the near zone of responsibility of the Pacific Fleet. In the course of the flight mission, a group of aircraft consisting of three Il-38s over the Pacific Ocean improved tactics of group…
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November 30, 2020 – After thorough consideration, the Navy has decided to decommission USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6), a Wasp-class amphibious assault ship, due to the extensive damage sustained during the July fire. “We did not come to this decision lightly,” said Secretary of the Navy Kenneth J. Braithwaite. “Following an extensive material assessment in which various courses of action…
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