The Royal Navy is in Portugal working with 26 nations to thoroughly test and trial a range of autonomous and uncrewed kit. Uncrewed vessels, hand-launched mini quadcopters and surveillance drones are being put through their paces at the NATO exercise.

https://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/news/2024/september/20/240920-royal-navy-tests-technology-in-portugal 

 

 

 

 

 

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Royal New Zealand Navy Polar-class sustainment vessel HMNZS Aotearoa (A11) coming into Sasebo, Japan – September 14, 2024.

 

 

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The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Boxer (LHD 4), right, and amphibious dock landing ship USS Comstock (LSD 45), left, conduct a replenishment at sea with Royal New Zealand Navy auxiliary oiler replenishment ship HMNZS Aotearoa (A 11), while the ships steam in the Pacific Ocean during exercise Ssang Yong 24, Sep. 4, 2024. Exercise SY24 strengthens the Republic of Korea-U.S. Alliance through bilateral, joint training, contributing toward combined amphibious capability in defense of the Korean Peninsula.

 

 

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Third Mine Countermeasures Squadron briefly meet the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious (RO 6) (left). The Faslane Based Mine Hunters HMS Inverness (M 102), HMS Bridport (M 105), and HMS Sandown (M 101) (right), were accompanied by their support ship Royal Fleet Forward Repair Ship, RFA Diligence (A 132) (center front) and the survey ship HMS Herald (A 138) (center rear). Persian Gulf 1998.

 

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On this day in 1996, a taxi driver spotted an abandoned North Korean submarine stuck off the coast of Gangneung, South Korea. For 49 days, the ROK Army pursued the sub’s Democratic People’s Republic of Korea . 24 infiltrators were killed and one was captured. One may have made it back to North Korea.

 

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