A Norwegian court has found an officer of the Royal Norwegian Navy guilty of negligence in connection with a maritime incident wherein a warship collided with a commercia ..
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HMS Somerset (F82)
A United Kingdom Royal Navy frigate is joining Norwegian forces operating in the North Sea protecting gas pipelines following last week’s rupture of two Nord Stream pipelines in the Baltic, the U.K. Ministry of Defence announced on Monday.
“A Royal Navy frigate is in the North Sea, working with the Norwegian Navy to reassure those working near the gas pipelines,” reads the Monday statement.
The MoD did not specify the frigate, but The Telegraph reported that it would likely be...
The following is the command investigation into the March 13, 2022 crash of a MV-22B Osprey in Norway.
From the investigation
1. The findings of fact, opinions and recommendations of the investigating officer are approved. The investigation is closed.
2. On 18 March 2022, an MV-223 from Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 261 (VMM-261), call sign “Ghost 31,” crashed into the steep side of a valley near Bodø, Norway during Exercise COLD RESPONSE. The mishap resulted in the tragic and untimely deaths...
https://news.usni.org/2022/08/15/marine-corps-investigation-into-mv-22b-osprey-crash-in-noway
My hypothesis (theory) on how sperm whales locate giant squid is that, in addition to using their biosonar, sperm whales locate giant squid by listening for sounds made b ..
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Spanish naval shipbuilder Navantia and Norway’s Kongsberg Defence and Aerospace (KDA) have entered into a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with the aim of explorin ..
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U.S. Marines prepare to take off in a MV-22B Osprey at Norwegian Air Force Base Bodø during Exercise Cold Response 22, Norway, March 16, 2022. US MArine
This post will be updated with additional information as it becomes available.
A U.S. Marine MV-22B Osprey tilt-rotor with four aboard crashed on Friday during a training mission in Arctic Norway, local officials said.
The Osprey was reported missing after it failed to arrive at Norwegian Air Force Base Bodø by 6 p.m. (1 p.m. East Coast time), acc...
The major build-up of Russian land forces around Ukraine has received a great deal of media attention, but the accompanying accumulation of warships of the Russian Federa ..
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Rendering of a Type 212
New diesel-electric attack submarine (SSK) programs for NATO members Italy, Norway and Germany are indicative of the developing trends in the conventional submarine market for stealthier attack boats.
These countries are all developing the Type 212 SSK design for their navies. Italy is using it to enhance its domestic SSK manufacturing capability, while a Norwegian-German program is piloting the first-ever joint SSK construction program through its initial stages.
Italy’s...
German defence firm ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has been contracted by the defence procurement organisations of Germany and Norway to build six Type 212CD diesel-e ..
ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has come to an agreement with the procurement authorities of Germany and Norway on the general conditions for the purchase of six Type ..