Newly acquired vessels include a French air defence frigate and an Australian-operated unmanned craft for surveillance work. Construction continues on a new US Navy attac ..
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NATO And China Face-Off At Arctic Summit
By Danielle Bochove (Bloomberg) A senior NATO official confronted a Chinese diplomat over China’s failure to condemn the Russian invasion of Ukraine, injecting tension over the war into an international…
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Maritime Security Vessel News Roundup | October 6 – Taiwan’s newest amphibious ship, future Dutch submarines and more
New naval vessels have been delivered in Greece and Taiwan while a decommissioned Australian patrol boat is being repurposed for testing autonomous systems. Meanwhile, th ..
French builder lays keel of second minehunter under joint Dutch-Belgian program
French shipbuilder the Naval Group has laid the keel for the second unit in a series of 12 mine countermeasures (MCM) vessels being built as part of a joint program betwe ..
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COLUMN | War in Ukraine: NATO’s maritime response [Naval Gazing]
Russian naval assets are very active offshore in support of Moscow’s Ukrainian campaign. NATO has responded with a large-scale deployment of its naval forces. Since the ..
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COLUMN | Standing up to China: tensions mount in Asian waters [Naval Gazing]
For many years, paramilitary patrol ships of the China Coast Guard (CCG) and its predecessor, China Maritime Surveillance, usually lightly-armed, but often with the reinf ..
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Keel laid for first of 12 new minehunters under joint Belgian-Dutch program
The Naval Group of France laid the keel for a new 82-metre mine countermeasures (MCM) vessel at its Concarneau shipyard on Tuesday, November 30. The vessel is the first o ..
U.S., U.K. Aircraft Carriers Drill with Japanese Big Deck Warship in the Western Pacific
From foreground to background USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08), JS Ise (DDH-182) and USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70). Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Photo
KUALA LUMPUR – Two U.S. carrier strike groups drilled with the United Kingdom’s Carrier Strike Group 21 (CSG21) and a Japanese big-deck warship over the weekend in a major naval exercise in the waters off the southeast of Okinawa, Japan.
The exercise involved six different navies – the U.S Navy, the U.K. Royal Navy, the Japan...
VESSEL REVIEW | Hydrograaf – Royal Netherlands Navy’s compact, high-endurance survey boat
Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding (DSNS) and Damen Shipyards Den Helder (DSHS) have handed over a new expeditionary survey boat (ESB) to the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN). ..
Construction starts on new minehunters for Dutch, Belgian navies
Crist Shipyard in Gdynia, Poland, has held a steel-cutting ceremony to mark the start of construction of 12 new mine countermeasures (MCM) vessels for the Belgian and Roy ..