Aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya will take sea for trials again early in the summer 2013, said Sergei Novoselov… Source: Russian Navy, December 11, 2012; Image: Flot
The Navy has directed the temporary return of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower(CVN 69) from her current overseas deployment, allowing the ship to return home for two months before sending it back to the Middle East region. The unusual move is being made to accommodate delays due to emergent repair work on USS [...]
On June 27, the Netherlands Defence Materiel Organization and Thales Nederland signed an agreement to modify the four SMART-L volume search radars installed on the “De Zeven Provinciën” class air defence and command frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy. The new SMART-L radar will be optimized for the early detection of ballistic missiles. SMART-L will [...]
Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus announced June 15 that the first amphibious ready group (ARG) ship scheduled to shift homeport to Naval Station Mayport, Fla., will arrive in the last quarter of calendar year 2013. USS New York (LPD 21), USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) and USS Fort McHenry (LSD 43), will shift from [...]
Armenian government is ready to offer its territory for construction of new Russian early warning radar, said Armenian Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan. “Of course. If our territory is of such interest, we’re open for dialogue”, Sargsyan told Kommersant. Answering the question about the radar’s search range, he emphasized it could be longer than Gabala Radar [...]
HMAS Tobruk (CMDR Tim Watson RAN) was back out at sea enhancing the Navy’s capability in support of Operation RESOLUTE just weeks after becoming the latest amphibious ship to achieve Unit Readiness. Tobruk sailed from Sydney on 13 January to assume duties as the long-haul Major Fleet Unit (MFU) for Operation RESOLUTE. Tobruk transited the [...]
Five “Tigertails” of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron One Two Five (VAW-125), embarked aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) as part of Carrier Air Wing Seventeen (CVW-17), flew an historic flight on Jan. 25 when they participated in the Navy’s first all-female E-2C Hawkeye combat mission. Carrier Aircraft Plane Commander Lt. [...]
As announced by the Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert during an All Hands Call at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam (JBPHH) Jan. 19, the Navy plans to offer voluntary early retirement to certain Sailors separating due to the Enlisted Retention Board (ERB). A NAVADMIN outlining official guidance and application procedures for voluntary early retirement [...]
Results from the Fiscal Year 2012 Selective Early Retirement Board have been approved and notifications are complete, according to NAVADMIN 295/11, released Oct. 4. Board results are posted for individual access through BUPERS online accounts. In accordance with ALNAV 061/11, officers selected for early retirement have also been notified by letter routed via their [...]
Norfolk Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard (NNSY) completed a Continuous Maintenance Availability (CMAV) for USS Norfolk (SSN 714) one week early, returning the submarine to the Fleet May 27. “This marks another successful, short 688-class availability preceded by recent Dry-docking Selected Restricted Availabilities on USS Montpelier (SSN 765) and USS Boise (SSN 764),” said Oliver [...]
