Author Archives: David Arkwright

U.S. Marines with Battalion Landing Team 3/5, 11th Marine Expeditionary Unit, observe the surrounding area while conducting a small craft action team drill aboard Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship USS Comstock (LSD 45), March 29, 2026. Joint Base Pearl Harbour-Hickam in Hawaii.

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Despite her brief time in Australia, some maintenance was done on HMS Anson before she was redeployed at short notice. About 600 man-hours of work were completed, and 35 locally manufactured components were fitted, including some made with additive manufacturing.

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BNS Anushandhan, (Ex-HMS Roebuck) seen here arriving in Chittagong. To starboard, the ancient former RN Type 41 frigates, which were transferred in 1978 but have now been scrapped

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HMS Tamar secures to buoys in the port of Cairns, Australia, to allow personnel transfer of FOST staff ahead of an assurance period starting this week. Things of the Past, buoy jumpers!

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Royal Navy demonstrates enduring skill in deterring a Russian undersea operation. BS-64 ‘Podmoskovye’, a special mission submarine based on the Delta-IV

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The U.S. Navy has abandoned plans to return the Los Angeles class attack submarine USS Boise to active duty. This brings an end to the saga of a still- incomplete major overhaul of the boat, which has lasted more than a decade now. In that time, it has become a poster child for the Navy’s worrisome struggles to tackle huge maintenance backlogs, as well as larger concerns about the availability, or lack thereof, of naval shipyard capacity. in the United States.

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