His Majesty King Abdullah II, the Supreme Commander of the Jordan Armed Forces- Arab Army, Saturday attended a joint naval military drill in Aqaba, carried out by personnel of the Royal Naval Force and Joint Special Operations forces, backed up by helicopter gunships. Upon his arrival at the site in the southern port city, King […]

Atlas Elektronik UK has delivered an ARCIMS USV to the German Naval Technical Centre for evaluation, the company announced on 20 January. The equipment is being assessed as part of a German Navy requirement for unmanned mine countermeasure (MCM) systems. ARCIMS USV is an 11m platform with a large open deck space and a 4 […]

China is reportedly building a 10,000-ton class marine surveillance vessel, the largest of its kind in the world, amid the country’s buildup of its maritime law enforcement force against the backdrop of territorial disputes at sea. Analysts said the ship, with a higher continuous voyage capability than current Chinese ships, could better cope with conditions […]

China’s next big push will take it very far north (and very far south)—and to do that, they’ll need to expand their icebreaker fleet. To that end, China commissioned its latest icebreaker, Haibing 722 on January 5th, three years after construction. The icebreaker will be assigned to the Chinese Navy’s Northern Fleet and patrol the […]

China is designing and building its second aircraft carrier “completely on its own” in Dalian in northeastern Liaoning Province, a Defense Ministry spokesperson confirmed Thursday. This carrier, with a displacement of 50,000 tonnes, will be a base for J-15 fighters and other types of aircraft, Yang Yujun told a monthly press briefing. Fixed-wing aircraft on […]

The commander of Egypt’s naval forces, Rear Admiral Osama Mounir, attended in Hamburg, Germany the inauguration of a German-built Egyptian submarine on Thursday, according to the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesperson. This is Egypt’s first Type-209/1400 submarine with the latest technology installed for this type of vessel. Egypt had signed the deal with Berlin to buy […]

USS Gravely enhances relationship with NATO Partners at port visit in Bar, Montenegro USS Gravely (DDG-107) is an Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer in the United States Navy. She is named after Vice Admiral Samuel L. Gravely, Jr. Gravely is the 57th destroyer in her class. She was authorized on 13 September 2002 and her […]

On Monday morning, the first-in-class Zumwalt-class destroyer left its pier at General Dynamics Bath Iron Work, headed down Maine’s Kennebec River bound for the Atlantic Ocean and its first taste of saltwater.

One person was killed and six others were wounded in an explosion on a vessel being repaired at the Severnaya Verf (Northern Shipyard) shipyard in St. Petersburg, a source in law enforcement agencies said on Monday. “According to preliminary data, a blast of combustible vapors occurred, six people were injured and one person died,” the […]

The USS Harry S. Truman carrier strike group entered the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations Nov. 23, 2015. The current deployment is part of an ongoing rotation of forward-deployed forces to support maritime security operations in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations.