On this day in 1982, The Argentine submarine ARA Santa Fe, aground off King Edward Point, South Georgia, is raised to clear the jetty. She still has 23 torpedoes aboard her. She is towed by tugs to a point about a mile from Grytviken to a shallow inlet called Moraine Fjord (Pic 3).

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Royal Marines and Swedish Coastal Rangers operated together in the Stockholm Archipelago, honing raiding tactics across the complex region. This was all part of NATO’s Baltops24 exercise, working for Baltic security.

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Ukraine has now sunk or damaged around two dozen Russian ships of all sizes using one-way attack Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs). Recently USVs have also been successfully used to lay mines.

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Sending a message is rare for SSBN to surface while on operations. USS Normandy and the ballistic missile submarine, USS Tennessee overflown by P-8A Poseidon and E-6B Mercury for PHOTEX in the Norwegian Sea on 23/6/24.

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Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) conducts a replenishment-at-sea with the U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) in the Philippine Sea, June 4, 2024. Ralph Johnson is forward deployed and assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy’s largest DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force.

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The Royal Navy has successfully used its smallest warships as a launchpad for autonomous mine-hunting operations for the first time. Seven P2000 patrol vessels of the Coastal Forces Squadron deployed on NATO’s annual Baltic exercise – known as Baltops 24 – during which 50 ships, dozens of aircraft and 9,000 personnel from 20 nations operated closely together for the security and safety of the region.

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Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Ralph Johnson (DDG 114) conducts a replenishment-at-sea with the U.S. Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier, USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) in the Philippine Sea, June 4, 2024. Ralph Johnson is forward deployed and assigned to Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 15, the Navy’s largest DESRON and the U.S. 7th Fleet’s principal surface force.