Nearly 2,500 Sailors from Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville and tenant commands attended an all hands call with Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Mike Stevens May 3. Before addressing numerous questions from local Sailors and from around the world via live streaming, Greenert [...]
EUCAP Nestor, EU Naval Force, and the Seychelles Coast Guard carried out a joint counter-piracy exercise in the Seychelles on 26 April. The exercise involved a mock interception of a suspected pirate skiff in Seychelles waters by the combined efforts of EU NAVFOR and the Seychelles Coast Guard. The Coast Guard vessel, Topaz, and a [...]
RESERVEX 2012 was held at the Devonport Naval Base from 21-25 November. Engineers, electricians, lawyers and teachers were among Defence Force personnel facing a range of challenges as part of a New Zealand Navy Volunteer Reserve training exercise. RESERVEX 2012 is an annual exercise designed to give Navy Volunteer Reservists the opportunity to develop and [...]
A solemn keel-laying ceremony of Project 22570 transport dock Sviyaga developed by Almaz Design Bureau will be held… Source: Russian Navy, November 27, 2012; Image: Flot
![Russia: Submarine Alexander Nevsky to Hold Sea Acceptance Trials in December 2012]()
State acceptance trials of Project 955 Borei nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine Alexander Nevsky… Source: Russian Navy, November 22, 2012
![Russian Navy to Hold Experimental Tests of Unmanned Helicopter Air Reconnaissance System]()
Russian Navy is going to hold experimental tests of the unmanned helicopter air reconnaissance system… Source: Russian Navy, October 30, 2012
Launching ceremony of seagoing rescue ship Igor Belousov will take place at Admiralteyskie Verfi shipyard (St. Petersburg) on Oct 30, 2012… Source: Russian Navy, October 29, 2012; Image: Black Sea Fleet
Solemn keel-laying ceremony of the first out of three Project 21900M diesel-electric open sea icebreakers (16 megawatt)… Source: Russian Navy, October 15,2012; Image: Vyborg
![Russia: NPO Mashinostroyenia to Conduct Air, Underwater Launches of BrahMos Missiles Soon]()
First test launches of air-based BrahMos cruise missile are scheduled in 2013, deputy director general of… Source: Russian Navy, October 15,2012
Black Sea Fleet (BSF) surface ships supported by naval aircraft held a landing assault drill during the Caucasus-2012 military exercise… Source: Russian Navy, September 24, 2012; Image: Flot
