The wam.ae website has released photos of HSV-2 Swift hybrid catamaran it was attacked by C-802 missile near Bab-el-Mandeb in Yemen. The HSV-2 Swift is a hybrid catamaran formerly belonged to the United States Navy but then was leased to the the United Arab Emirates Navy. The ship was operating near the Yemeni port of Mokha located on the northeastern edge […]

Britain’s ministry of defence said on Saturday that construction work will begin on the country’s new nuclear submarines, announcing nearly 1.3 billion pounds ($1.7 billion) of new investment with defence firm BAE Systems . The programme will deliver four new submarines for the Royal Navy and will replace the current Vanguard class, with the first […]

The U.S. Marine Corps is about to outfit its infantry regiments with a version of the Polaris Defense MRZR four-seater, all-terrain vehicle. That was reported by www.dodbuzz.com. Under the Utility Task Vehicle program, the Marines are planning to purchase 144 Polaris MRZR-Ds, a new version of the vehicle designed to take diesel and JP8 fuel, Joaquin […]

The Indonesian Marine Corps has taken delivery of the first batch of new Ukrainian BTR-4M amphibious  armoured personnel carriers. The ship MV Texel carrying five units of new BTR-4M amphibious armoured personnel carriers arrived at the dock port of Tanjung Priok in Indonesia on September 28. In August, the ship Texel with Ukrainian  BTR-4M wheeled armoured vehicles was spotted […]

Vladimir Monomakh, Russian newest strategic nuclear submarine, arrived in Viluchinsk (Kamchatka) after the interfleet transfer. The submarine was moored near the pierce of modern infrastructure, which had been created for submarines of new generations. Chief of Staff of the Pacific Fleet Rear Admiral Igor Osipov met the military sailors and congratulated them on accomplishing assigned […]

In accordance to the combat training plan, the active stage of the tactic exercise is held with the Black Sea Fleet missile motor boats near shores of the Crimea Peninsula. In course of the exercise, the servicemen are practicing delivering and loading the missile armament on the ships as well as its practical use for […]

The Chinese and Russian navies staged a mission to seize an island on Sunday as part of an eight-day exercise in the South China Sea. As the key element of the annual drill, the navies dispatched warships, marine forces, helicopters and amphibious armored equipment for the mission. The exercise demonstrated the Chinese and Russian navies’ […]

Chinese and Russian marines a started “Joint Sea 2016” drill off Guangdong Province in the South China Sea on Tuesday. The drill will run until Sept. 19, featuring navy surface ships, submarines, fixed-wing aircraft, helicopters, marines and amphibious armored equipment. That reported by www.chinadaily.com.cn. Chinese and Russian fleets sailed out of a port in Zhanjiang […]

Today, the active stage of the joint Russia-Chinese exercise “Naval interaction” has started in the South China Sea. Ships of the Russian Navy and the Navy of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army have left the Zhanjiang port (Guangdong Province) and laid the course to the areas of the active stage of the naval exercise. Military […]

Type 051 guided missile destroyer Nanchang has been officially decommissioned as of Sept. 8, after serving in the Chinese Navy for almost 34 years. According to some, Nanchang was China’s last active Type 051 destroyer. Type 051 destroyers are China’s first generation of domestically-manufactured missile destroyers. The first Type 051 destroyer was commissioned on Dec. […]