The US Navy recently completed a service life extension program (SLEP) on the training craft Yard Patrol 686 and returned the modernised vessel to the US Naval Academy ..
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BOOK REVIEW | Swimming with Fishes
Your reviewer has known Bob Iversen for more than twenty years and has enjoyed many a chat with him. He is a true intellectual of the old school who also happens to have ..
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US Navy destroyer, embarked coast guard team recover illegal drugs in Caribbean
The US Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Lassen and its embarked US Coast Guard Law Enforcement Detachment (LEDET) personnel have recovered more than ..
California Department of Fish and Wildlife takes delivery of Ribcraft USA newbuilds, orders additional boats
The California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW) recently took delivery of two new rigid inflatable boats (RIBs) in a series from Ribcraft USA. Delivered to the ..
BOOK REVIEW | Naval Minewarfare: Politics to Practicalities
This is a very important book that should be read and studied by all defence planners, politicians and, of course, naval officers. Since World War II naval mines or sea ..
Keel laid for US Coast Guard’s first 110-metre offshore patrol cutter
Eastern Shipbuilding Group has laid the keel of the future USCGC Argus, the first of a new class of US Coast Guard vessels designated as offshore patrol cutters (OPCs). ..
FEATURE | Undersea deterrence and strategic competition in the Indo-Pacific
Amid rapid geopolitical change at the start of the 2020s, unfolding now in the Covid-19 crisis, nuclear weapons manifest grim continuity with the previous century. ..
Eastern Shipbuilding cuts steel for second OPC for US Coast Guard
Eastern Shipbuilding Group has cut the first steel for the future US Coast Guard cutter Chase. The future Chase will be the second 110- by 16-metre offshore patrol cutter ..
FMM tapped to build new frigate for US Navy
Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM) has been awarded a nearly US$800 million US Department of Defense contract to build the first vessel in a new class of guided-missile ..
FEATURE | Troubled waters: China’s sovereign ambition in the shadows of Covid-19
Around midnight on April 2, a Vietnamese fishing vessel sank in the disputed waters in the South China Sea after allegedly being rammed by the Chinese coastguard. ..