DefenceTalkThe United States has cancelled this week’s planned deployment of two warships to the Black Sea, Turkish officials and media said Wednesday, amid high tensions between Russia and Ukraine. Turkish diplomatic sources said the passage of the first ship through the Bosphorus due on Wednesday did not take place. Anadolu state news agency said both […]

DefenceTalkA US warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait, the American navy said Thursday, a day after a top US commander warned of the threat to Taiwan of a Chinese invasion within the next six years. The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS John Finn conducted a routine transit yesterday through the waterway separating the Chinese […]

DefenceTalkA US warship docked in Sudan Monday a day after a Russian frigate arrived in the same key Red Sea port where Moscow is planning to establish a naval logistics base, an AFP correspondent said. The arrival of the guided-missile destroyer USS Winston S. Churchill to Port Sudan follows Washington’s delisting of Khartoum as state […]

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkChina on Friday warned off a US warship sailing near contested islands in the South China Sea, Beijing said, the first such encounter made public since the inauguration of President Joe Biden. The USS John S. McCain “broke into China’s Xisha territorial waters without the permission of the Chinese government,” Beijing’s military said in a […]https://www.defencetalk.com/beijing-warns-off-us-warship-from-south-china-sea-islands-76766/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkThe USS Nimitz Carrier Strike Group is departing the Central Command area of responsibility and moving into the U.S. Indo-Pacific region, Pentagon Press Secretary John F. Kirby announced today. “We want to thank all the men and women aboard the ships in that strike crew and the squadrons who supported Central Command now for more […]https://www.defencetalk.com/nimitz-carrier-group-sails-into-indo-pacific-command-76728/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkA Ghost Fleet Overlord unmanned surface vessel, part of a partnership between the Defense Department’s Strategic Capabilities Office and the Navy, recently traveled a distance of more than 4,700 nautical miles, almost entirely autonomously. Afterward, it participated in exercise Dawn Blitz where it again spent nearly all of its underway time operating autonomously. “This is […]https://www.defencetalk.com/dods-autonomous-vessel-sails-through-transit-test-participates-in-exercise-dawn-blitz-76673/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkThe government of France signed a Letter of Offer and Acceptance (LOA) with the U.S. government signifying their intent to purchase Northrop Grumman Corporation’s (NYSE: NOC) E-2D Advanced Hawkeye. The LOA allows the U.S. Navy to begin contracting activities with Northrop Grumman for production of E-2D airborne command and control aircraft. The signed LOA secures […]https://www.defencetalk.com/france-to-purchase-northrop-grummans-e-2d-advanced-hawkeye-76638/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkThe US reversed a decision to bring an aircraft carrier home from the Gulf Sunday, with the Pentagon saying that due to “recent threats” by Iran the USS Nimitz would stay in position. The Nimitz has been patrolling Gulf waters since late November, but in a statement issued on December 31, acting US defense secretary […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-aircraft-carrier-to-stay-in-gulf-pentagon-76632/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkIndia’s navy has intensified a search for any sign of an air force pilot whose jet crashed into the Arabian Sea during a training exercise last week, authorities said Monday. The Russian-made MiG-29K aircraft hit the water off the coast of western Goa state on Thursday, with one of the two officers on board rescued. […]https://www.defencetalk.com/indian-navy-deploys-warhsips-divers-to-find-missing-pilot-76578/

DefenceTalkDefenceTalkRussia plans to build a naval base on Sudan’s Red Sea coast to resupply its fleet, according to a draft agreement with Khartoum signed off by Prime Minister Mikhail Mishustin. The planned deal, published on the Russian government’s website Wednesday, outlines a “logistical support centre” to be set up in Sudan where “repairs and resupply […]https://www.defencetalk.com/russia-plans-naval-base-in-sudan-76544/