Mitsubishi Heavy Industries launched the future JS Natori, the ninth of a planned 12 Mogami-class stealth frigates ordered by the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), at its Nagasaki facilities on Monday, June 24. The ship is scheduled for delivery and commissioning in 2025. The Mogami-class...
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Maritime Security Vessel News Roundup | June 25 – New frigates, corvettes and a special operations support ship
The Hellenic Navy acquires a former research vessel for special operations support as Japan welcomes a stealth frigate into service and new corvettes for Russia and the Philippines are launched. Construction begins on Australia’s Hunter-class frigates. Finally, ordered have been placed for frigates for the German Navy and patrol boats for Australia’s Pacific Island neighbours. […]
Japan’s sixth Mogami-class stealth frigate formally enters service
The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) commissioned its newest stealth frigate into service in a ceremony on Thursday, June 20. JS Agano is the fifth frigate to be built under the Mogami-class. Construction of the vessel took place at the Nagasaki facilities of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries....
COLUMN | A brave new world for aircraft carriers? [Naval Gazing]
Many maritime pundits these days express the view that aircraft carriers are doomed. The ships are too large, too vulnerable, and increasingly irrelevant, they say. Others, however, opine that with their long range, sustainable high speed, endurance, hitting power, and surveillance and command and...
Japan commissions new stealth warship into service
The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) commissioned its newest stealth frigate into service in a ceremony in Nagasaki on Tuesday, May 21. JS Yahagi is the fifth frigate to be built under the Mogami-class. Construction of the vessel took place at the Nagasaki facilities of Mitsubishi Heavy...
COLUMN | Beijing’s evolving multi-pronged strategy in the South China Sea [Naval Gazing]
China’s headlong maritime expansionism depends heavily upon achieving dominance of the South China Sea (SCS) and its environs. This dominance demands the establishment of control of many areas of the sea that are currently claimed by other nations. Beijing’s chosen tools to negate such claims are...
Four-nation maritime cooperative activity concluded in Philippines’ EEZ waters
The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the US Indo-Pacific Command, the Australian Defence Force, and the Japan Self-Defence Forces successfully conducted a Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity (MMCA) in the waters west of the Philippines on Sunday, April 7, the AFP said in a statement....
Cargo ship under monitoring after being hijacked in Arabian Sea
The European Union Naval Force (EUNAVFOR) is continuing its monitoring of a commercial vessel after it was boarded by pirates in the Arabian Sea late last week. The Maltese-flagged bulker carrier Ruen, which had earlier left the port of Gwangyang in South Korea with a cargo of metal, was hijacked...
Maritime Security Vessel News Roundup | March 16 – German Navy RIBs, a Japanese stealth frigate, and a US Navy expeditionary sea base
Deliveries include a patrol boat for a Texas sheriff’s department, a stealth frigate for Japan’s self-defence forces, and an expeditionary sea base for the US Navy. A ..
Japanese warship disabled after allegedly hitting rock during sea trials
Japanese media reports that a warship of the Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF) suffered damage preventing it from sailing under its own power after it allegedly s ..
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