Author Archives: David Arkwright

PM Keir Starmer says “the Royal Navy will expand its presence in the Pacific Ocean” in a move to counter China’s growing influence. Unlikely to be much difference – ie. the continued effective but ‘soft power’ presence of 2 x OPVs and already planned CSG25 deployment to the Pacific region next year.

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Cuba’s beleaguered navy, the Las Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Cuba (FAR), continues to field locally produced vessels. The latest type of note, first observed in 2021, is a torpedo boat. Recent photos provide new details of this unique craft.

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Former crew of HMS Swiftsure were invited to take a last look at the boat before the breakers move in. The S-boat, which left service is 1992, is the first RN nuclear-powered submarine to be dismantled and recycled.

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The U.S. Navy achieved a breakthrough in combat readiness today as it successfully demonstrated the Transferrable Reload At-sea Method (TRAM) on an underway warship in open ocean for the first time. Sailors aboard the Ticonderoga-class cruiser Chosin (CG 65) used the hydraulically- powered TRAM device to load an empty missile canister into the ship’s MK 41 Vertical Launching System (VLS) while off the coast of San Diego on Oct. 11.

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