Category: December 2025

Royal Australian Navy Anzac class frigate HMAS Ballarat has returned to Fleet Base West in Western Australia following a successful three-month Regional Presence Deployment throughout the Indo-Pacific region. Regional Presence…

More than 350 service members and civilian mariners embarked aboard the expeditionary mobile base USS John L. Canley (ESB 6), arrived in Hawaii, concluding Pacific Partnership 25 (PP25), the five-month…

Introduction The world is inextricably connected by its oceans and seas, which are essential to ensure global commerce and our way of life. Therefore, maritime security is vital to peace…

NATO recently released an update to the Alliance maritime strategy that provides a framework for Allied maritime security across the Euro-Atlantic region. The strategy will help steer the transformation efforts…

With the undocking of the second (yet to be named) marine fuel supplier (MBV), NVL has taken another major step on the way to completion and subsequent entry into the…

Combined Maritime Forces’ (CMF) Qatar-led Combined Task Force (CTF) 152 successfully conducted the first iteration of Joint Patrol-01, recently. The joint patrol aimed to revolutionize maritime operations using autonomous seaborne…

The Romanian Naval Forces’ EOD military divers, specialized in the fight against explosive devices, carried out a mission to neutralize an object that was endangering navigation in the Black Sea…

USS John Finn (DDG 113) returned to Commander Fleet Activities Yokosuka on December 3, marking the completion of a scheduled patrol in the Indo-Pacific region. John Finn left for patrol…

As part of a general fleet review launched by the U.S. Navy, aimed at transitioning towards a future model focused on technological excellence, manned and unmanned vessels, and a long-term…

USS Thomas Hudner (DDG 116) departed Naval Station Mayport for a scheduled deployment on December 1. The departure comes after months of training, maintenance, and certification events, which ultimately prepared…