529 RAF personnel will deploy on CSG25 (approx 22 people per jet if 24 embarked). Contrast with 113 RAF personnel on CSG21 (with 8 jets). Lesson from Jet lost overboard in November 2021 was lack of carrier operating experience plus understrength overwork/fatigued air engineers. (USMC deployed with 25 people per jet on CSG21).

 

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What appears to be a Japanese variant of an electromagnetic railgun gun, for the Maritime Self-Defense Force on the test ship “Asuka ASE-6102”. The gun turret and barrel have an angular shape.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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USS Gravely (DDG 107) Surface Warriors Train with U.S. Coast Guardsmen While Underway in Support of the Southern Border Mission.

 

 

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HMS Monmouth escorting INS Vikramaditya during transit through the Channel, on her way from Russia to India after procurement. 2013.

 

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HMS Hardy and HMS Phoebe. Blackwood class type 14 frigate HMS Hardy (F.54), filmed during the Royal Navy exercise that saw the frigate sunk as a target in July 1983.

 

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The Blue Ridge-class command and control ship USS Mount Whitney (LCC 20) arrives at the NATO Marathi Pier Complex in Souda Bay, Greece,

 

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Zubr-class (pr. 12322) LCAC Kerkyra (L182) of the Hellenic Navy. It is the last Zubr built in Russia and the most advanced of its class.

 

 

 

 

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