The Royal Navy has unveiled plans to acquire six examples of a new type of amphibious ship to support Royal Marines Commando operations. The new multi-role support ships (MRSS) will replace the Albion-class landing platform docks HMS Albion (pictured) and HMS Bulwark, the Royal Navy’s current...
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Scores of Well-Meaning Aviators Clogging Skies Over the Bahamas as Dorian Victims Struggle
A Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter crew surveys the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas on Sept. 7, 2019. US Coast Guard Photo
NASSAU, THE BAHAMAS — With 700 islands spread over 180,000 square miles of bright blue ocean, it’s difficult to imagine the airspace over the Bahamas becoming crowded. But so many U.S. military, government, private and other aircraft have flown to the rescue in the aftermath of Hurricane Dorian that the skies are “tight,” according to one Coast Guard pilot.
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USS Bataan, 26 MEU Join Coast Guard for Aid Mission in the Bahamas a Week After Dorian
Coast Guardsman passes water to those affected by Hurricane Dorian in the Bahamas on Sept. 8, 2019. Coast Guard Photo
THE PENTAGON – Over the weekend, amphibious assault ship USS Bataan (LHD-5) joined the international effort delivering supplies, transporting U.S. relief personnel and providing medical evacuations from the Bahamas a week after Hurricane Dorian slammed into the island nation.
Since the storm moved past the Bahamas, the U.S. Coast Guard has rescued more than 300 people in the...
USNI News Video: Britain’s Caribbean Naval Mission
A Mexifloat from RFA Mounts Bay on its way to Grand Tuck with Heavy Plant for use in the rebuild after the hurricane in 2017. UK Royal Navy Photo
ABOARD ROYAL FLEET AUXILIARY SHIP MOUNTS BAY — One of three British Bay-class landing ships has spent nearly two years in the Western Atlantic and the Caribbean Sea, both looking after British interests as well as finding ways to partner with the U.S. Navy.
RFA Mounts Bay (L3008) is a Bay-class auxiliary landing ship dock (LSD(A)) in the Royal Fleet...
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