More than 500 Sailors and civilians helped clean the streets around Naval Base San Diego (NBSD), May 11, during the 22nd bi-annual Main Street Cleanup. The Main Street Cleanup focuses on picking up trash around the community and demonstrates how Sailors help maintain a relationship with adjacent National City, Calif. The volunteers represented more than [...]
![Russia: Project 955 Lead Submarine SSBN Yury Dolgoruky Ready to Enter Service]()
Sevmash shipyard is ready to sign acceptance certificate of Project 955 lead submarine SSBN Yury Dolgoruky… Source: Russian Navy,October 2, 2012
Australian sailors, soldiers, airmen and women have joined defence forces from 21 other nations, including France, Canada and Russia, for Exercise RIM-OF-THE-PACIFIC (RIMPAC 12) in the islands of Hawaii. Approximately 1100 Australian Defence personnel are among 25,000 personnel participating in the US-sponsored exercise. For the first time in the history of RIMPAC, Australia will lead [...]
Sailors saluted Prince Charles in the heart of Edinburgh as the three Services paraded through the Scottish capital to celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee. Ship’s companies from Scottish-based submarines, vessels such as HMS Defender that are being built on the Clyde, plus sailors drawn from across the Senior Service including Portsmouth-based HMS Lancaster and Richmond, [...]
Northrop Grumman Corporation announced today that it has appointed Robert A. Carr, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. (retired), corporate lead executive (CLE) for company business in Fort Meade and Aberdeen, Md. Carr reports to Jack Dorsett, vice president of cybersecurity and command, control, computers and communications (C4), Corporate Government Relations. “I am very pleased to welcome [...]
Trials of Project 677 lead non-nuclear submarine St. Petersburg will continue in the current year in the Barents and the White seas, reports ARMS-TASS referring to Andrei Baranov, deputy director general of Rubin Central Design Bureau for foreign economic activity. Final tests of all onboard equipment need deep waters; such trials are impossible in the [...]
![Project 11356 Lead Frigate Admiral Grigorovich to Join Russian Navy in 2014]()
Project 11356 lead frigate Admiral Grigorovich will join Russian Navy in 2014; presently, the ship is being built by Yantar shipyard in Kaliningrad, reported a spokesman for Russian Navy. “Totally, it is planned to build three Project 11356 frigates. On Dec 18, 2011 the shipyard laid a keel for the second frigate – Admiral [...]
![Secretary of Navy Lead Contender for U.S. Secretary of Defense]()
With Secretary of Defense Robert Gates now back from a final tour of operations in Iraq, the focus on Capitol Hill now turns to President Ba… by Sid Salter (clarionledger) Source: clarionledger, April 13, 2011;
![U.S. Navy to Become Lead Service in Implementing America’s Missile Defense Strategy]()
Earlier this month, the cruiser USS Monterey entered the Mediterranean Sea on a new mission. The Monterey was built three decades ago at the… by Loren Thompson Read More Source: forbes, March 22, 2011;
