SQUALE 2023: Preparation for High-Intensity Combat Under the Sea
From 2 to 12 May 2023, the SQUALE anti-submarine warfare exercise took place between Toulon and Corsica. The multi-mission frigate with enhanced air defense capability (FREMM DA) Alsace held the…
Structural Upgrades Completed on Bremerton’s Dry Dock 4
Interim seismic mitigation efforts, which began Feb. 15 on Dry Dock 4, have been completed at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard & Intermediate Maintenance Facility in Bremerton. The dry dock has…
Dutch Cabinet Investigates Protecting North Sea Infrastructure
Defense wants a permanent role in the protection of infrastructure in the North Sea. It’s about better detecting and deterring threats. The cabinet is investigating the possibilities. This is what…
NATO Integrated Air and Missile Defense Exercise Formidable Shield
U.S. Sixth Fleet and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO) kicked off exercise Formidable Shield 2023 in the High North and North Atlantic Ocean on May 8, 2023. The…
Nigerian Navy Joins Global Effort to Map Ocean Floors
The global initiative dedicated to achieving a complete map of the ocean floor – The Nippon Foundation-GEBCO Seabed 2030 Project – has announced a new partnership with the Nigerian Navy…
Germany Takes Part in Swedish Exercise Aurora 23
Sweden’s armed forces practiced from April 24 to May 11. Supporting NATO naval units were recruited by the German staff DEU MARFO Maritime Forces Staff guided. The Aurora 23 maneuver…
First Dual UNREP for FS Jacques Chevallier
On May 4, 2023, as part of its sea trials off Toulon, the Jacques Chevallier force supply ship (BRF) carried out its first so-called “triple” refueling at sea (RAM), for…
HMS Lancaster Makes Drug Bust in Arabian Sea
A frigate from the United Kingdom Royal Navy seized $6 million worth of hashish from a fishing vessel transiting the Arabian Sea, May 8. HMS Lancaster (F 229) was operating…
USS Oakland Participates in Exercise Croix Du Sud 2023
Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Oakland (LCS 24) participated in Croix Du Sud 2023 with 14 allied and partner nations at New Caledonia, April 24 to May 8, 2023. Croix…