Three Chinese Ships Visit Lagos
Chinese Navy Escort Task Group (ETG) 162 comprising MSL Destroyer NANNING, MSL Frigate SANYA, and Supply Ship WEISHANHU arrived off Lagos 2 July 2023. MSL Destroyer NANNING only berthed for…
India and France Conduct Maritime Partnership Exercise
Indian Naval ships INS Rana, a guided missile destroyer, and INS Sumedha, an indigenously built offshore patrol vessel undertook a Maritime Partnership Exercise (MPX) with French Navy ship FS Surcouf,…
US Prevents Iran from Seizing Two Tankers in Gulf of Oman
On July 5, U.S. forces prevented two attempted commercial tanker seizures by the Iranian Navy after the Iranians had opened fire in one of the incidents near the coast of…
Mine Action Flotilla Receives SLAMF Surface Drone Boat Lift
On 23 June 2023, the Mine Action Flotilla (MCL) took delivery of the boat lift and self-propelled trailers for handling mine warfare drones from the SLAM-F (Future Mine Action System)…
Japan-India Maritime Exercise 2023 (JIMEX 23)
The seventh edition of the bilateral Japan-India Maritime Exercise 2023 (JIMEX 23) hosted by the Indian Navy, is being conducted at/ off Visakhapatnam from 05 -10 July 2023. This edition…
Ex-BRP Lake Caliraya Being Sunk as a Target This Month
While Exercise Cope Thunder 2023-2 is happening, another PH-US exercise, the Marine Aviation Support Activity 2023 will also run con-currently from 06 to 22 July 2023 involving Philippine and US…
Sri Lanka Navy Makes High Seas Drug Bust
A special operation conducted by the Sri Lanka Navy about 573 nautical miles (about 1061km) off Dondra, south of Sri Lanka, led to the interception of a foreign trawler with…
RFA Stirling Castle Tests Autonomous Minehunters
A minehunting ‘mothership’ and autonomous vessels were trialed together for the first time in a milestone moment for the future of the UK’s mine counter measure operations. The three boats…
China Sends Type 075 & Three Escorts in Show of Force to Japan
A Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Navy flotilla led by a Type 075 amphibious assault ship was recently spotted breaking the first island chain from straits south of Japan, marking…