Grant Shapps and Richard Marles Visit Key Nuclear Site
UK Defense Secretary, Grant Shapps, and Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister, Richard Marles, visited Rolls-Royce’s nuclear reactor manufacturing site in Derby today to meet the first group of…
Babcock Australasia Offering Arrowhead 140 to New Zealand
In response to the New Zealand Ministry of Defense’s industry engagement request to replace the current naval fleet, Babcock Australasia held a suppliers’ day for small and medium enterprises (SMEs)…
AUKUS At the Heart of Australian Strategic Policy
The AUKUS program—sweeping in the intimacy and level of its proposed cooperation—has enjoyed a high level of bipartisan support among the Australian political elite. First agreed by the Coalition government…
HMNZS Manawanui Survey & Bomb Disposal in South Pacific
Dive and hydrographic vessel HMNZS Manawanui has arrived in Niue, the first stop in a seven-week deployment to the southwest Pacific. Operation Calypso will involve the 70-strong Royal New Zealand…
Ukraine Minehunters Under Dutch Command in Joint Warrior
The Royal Netherlands Navy will lead two Ukrainian minehunters in Scottish waters during the 2-week Joint Warrior exercise. Ukraine received the ships from the British Navy. The navy was there…
Pax ITF Performs First Night SRVL Aboard HMS Prince of Wales
An F-35 Lightning II test pilot performed the first night shipborne rolling vertical landing (SRVL) aboard HMS Prince of Wales (R09), the U.K.’s newest aircraft carrier, in Atlantic waters off…
Three Communist Chinese Ships Visit Abu Dhabi
The 44th Chinese naval escort taskforce arrived in Abu Dhabi, capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on October 30, for a five-day goodwill visit. Guided by an Emirati frigate,…
Launch of Indian Navy 25T Bollard Pull Tug Mahabali
25T Bollard Pull (BP) Tug, ‘Mahabali’ was launched by Cmde Sunil Kaushik, NM, WPS(Mbi) on 28 Oct 2023 at M/s Shoft Shipyard Pvt Ltd, Bharuch, Gujarat. This Tug is proud…
Russia’s Growing List Of Naval Losses
Reprinted from Radio Free Europe 1 The Askold corvette undergoes sea trials in October 2022. On November 4, the Karakurt-class Askold corvette, which had yet to enter service with the…
Portuguese Navy Shadows Russian Ship Through EEZ
NRP Setúbal and NRP Viana do Castelo, through daily monitoring of the Navy’s Maritime Operations Center and the commitment of naval assets, carried out, from the 25th of October until…