OceanWorks International announces the successful delivery of a major system upgrade for the first of the Italian Navy’s three Atmospheric Diving Systems (ADS). After its previous refurbishment in 1999, the first Italian HARDSUIT™ was returned to OceanWorks International for the latest configuration upgrade. The upgrade to the QUANTUM II configuration offers much improved operational, maintenance [...]
Sailors aboard the Ticonderoga class guided-missile Cruiser USS Chancellorsville(CG 62) completed a live-fire test of the ship’s enhanced Aegis Combat System, during an at-sea test scenario April 2. Chancellorsville launched one Standard Missile 2 (SM-2) at an aerial drone where Aegis successfully detected, tracked and engaged the medium-altitude subsonic drone. This was the first time [...]
Naval Sea Systems Command completed the first-ever Air Defense Cruiser Aegis Baseline 9 combat systems upgrade for USS Chancellorsville (CG 62), March 29. The upgrade, part of the Navy’s Cruiser Modernization program, began in April 2012 at BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair Facility and was completed following combat systems testing and sea trials. “With [...]
Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 132 completed a six-month deployment aboard Naval Air Facility Misawa, Feb. 2. Having been in northern Japan since July 2012, the “Scorpions” and their aircraft are returning to their home base at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, located in Oak Harbor, Wash. This was the first expeditionary deployment of the EA-18G [...]
Admiral Viktor Chirkov, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief, has finished an official visit to the United Kingdom at the… Source: russiannavy, December 17, 2012; Image: flot
State acceptance trials of the new-generation research ship Seliger are going on in Novorossiysk… Source: Russian Navy, November 21, 2012; Image: Flot
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Crew of Black Sea Fleet (BSF) destroyer Smetlivy has finished repair and left Italian port Taranto, reported Russian defense ministry… Source: Russian Navy, November 16, 2012
Project 11356 frigate INS Tarkash built by JSC Yantar Shipyard for Indian Navy has successfully finished acceptance trials and is preparing… Source: Russian Navy, October 22, 2012; Image: Yantar
The Peleliu Amphibious Ready Group and embarked 15th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) returned to homeport San Diego, after completing certification exercise (CERTEX) off the coast of Southern California Aug. 28. CERTEX was the final two-week training evolution that graded 15th MEU’s capabilities to conduct amphibious maritime and sea-to-shore operations. “The evolutions were designed to test [...]
The New Zealand Navy’s replenishment tanker HMNZS ENDEAVOUR has just finished providing approximately 70,000 litres of diesel fuel to the Cook Islands in response to the South Pacific country’s request for assistance. Commander Keith Robb, ENDEAVOUR’s Commanding Officer, said the fuel supplies will keep power generators humming at Nassau, Pukapuka and Penrhyn Islands in the [...]
