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U.S., French, British navies sign agreement for increased cooperation
Jun 03, 2021 (UPI)
Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday, French Navy Adm. Pierre Vandier and Tony Radakin, First Sea Lord of Britain's Royal Navy met in Toulon, France, Thur...
Navy Adm. Mike Gilday meets with Danish officials amid espionage crisis
Jun 02, 2021 (UPI)
In his visit to Copenhagen, Gilday met with the Danish Minister of Defense Trine Bramsen, Permanent Secretary of State for Defense Morten Bæk, Chief of the Roy...
Australia looking at 'Plan B' for troubled French sub deal
Jun 02, 2021 (AFP)
The US$68 billion agreement with Naval Group to build 12 state-of-the-art Attack Class subs is years behind schedule, well over budget and tangled up in Austral...
Indonesia halts deep-sea salvage of sunken submarine
Jun 02, 2021 (AFP)
The KRI Nanggala 402 disappeared in April while it was scheduled to take part in live torpedo training exercises, sparking a desperate international rescue effo...
USS Ronald Reagan strike group conducts exercise with Japan
Jun 01, 2021 (UPI)
The Reagan Carrier Strike Group operated in international waters with JMSDF's Hyuga-class helicopter destroyer JS Ise to strengthen the U.S.-Japan alliance and ...
Coast Guard cutter USCGC Active returns home after rescues, drug seizures
May 28, 2021 (UPI)
The 55-year-old, 210-foot-long ship seized about 5,650 pounds of cocaine, valued at over $100 million, during two interdictions before arriving at Port Angeles,...
Navy, Marines unite for multi-week amphibious exercise off California
May 28, 2021 (UPI)
The three-ship Essex Amphibious Ready Group and the 11th Marines Expeditionary Unit conducted a multi-week "training evolution" involving over 5,000 personnel t...
GAO: Navy must manage sailor fatigue issues, reduce crew shortfalls
May 28, 2021 (UPI)
The 81-page report on Navy readiness was released on Thursday, and notes that only 14 percent of Navy officers get enough sleep. It also faults the Navy for ass...
Navy's future LCS USS Savannah completes acceptance trials
May 26, 2021 (UPI)
The trials, completed May 14 in the Gulf of Mexico, are the final step in testing the Independence-variant ship before it is formally delivered to the Navy in a...
USS Theodore Roosevelt returns to San Diego after deployment
May 25, 2021 (UPI)
The vessel deployed in December to the 3rd Fleet and 7th Fleet areas of operation. "Whether it was operating in the Indo-Pacific and the South China Sea or high...
Vaccinated sailors won't have to isolate before deployment, Navy says
May 25, 2021 (UPI)
Sailors who haven't been vaccinated will still have conduct a 14-day restriction of movement sequester, where they test in and test out prior to deployment -- a...
USS Sioux City joins Dominican Republic navy in exercises
May 24, 2021 (UPI)
The Freedom-variant LCS joined the Dominican Republic's Defiant-class patrol boat Betelgeuse and 110-foot-class swiftship-class patrol boat Orion on Sunday in a...
U.S. Navy prepares for BALTOPS Baltic Sea exercise in June
May 24, 2021 (UPI)
BALTOPS will involve 18 NATO and partner nations, bringing together 40 maritime units, 60 aircraft and 4,000 personnel, a Navy statement said, in an exercise pr...
Queen Elizabeth visits namesake aircraft carrier before its deployment
May 24, 2021 (UPI)
Queen Elizabeth II visited her namesake vessel, the flagship of the British navy, on Saturday, hours before the ship departed Portsmouth with six Royal Navy shi...
USS Mobile to be commissioned on Saturday
May 21, 2021 (UPI)
The vessel, built in Mobile by Austal USA, will be the 13th Independence variant in the Navy fleet. The Independence variant LCS -- the other is the Freedom var...
China says US 'creating risks' with South China Sea warship sail-bys
May 20, 2021 (AFP)
Tensions in maritime waters claimed by both China and many of its neighbours have ratcheted up recently, with Beijing staging live-fire drills and sending hundr...
Navy's experimental drone ship passes through Panama Canal
May 20, 2021 (UPI)
USNI News reported that ship spotters had found evidence of the vessel's passage through the Panama Canal using data from MarineTraffic.com, and that a Navy off...
Fincantieri Marinette nabs $553.9M for second Constitution-class frigate
May 20, 2021 (UPI)
The future USS Congress is designed to have multi-mission capability to conduct air warfare, anti-submarine warfare, surface warfare, electronic warfare, and in...
Russia to measure radioactivity at sunk nuclear sub
May 19, 2021 (AFP)
Equipped with a nuclear reactor and two nuclear warheads, the Komsomolets submersible caught fire in April 1989 as a result of a short circuit while in internat...
USS Ronald Reagan carrier strike group departs Japan
May 19, 2021 (UPI)
The vessel, the Navy's only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, departed its home port of Naval Base Yokosuka on Wednesday with its escorts and Carrier Air Wing ...
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