Future USS Idaho (SSN 799) Virginia-class Block IV nuclear-powered attack submarine with float off in Groton, Connecticut – posted August 14, 2024.

 

 

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Number 14 Dock at HM Naval Base Portsmouth received HMS Daring this week, the first warship to dock there following its restoration and upgrade. The Type 45 destroyer was manoeuvered into position and will dock down a week later.

 

 

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The future USS Kingsville (LCS 36) departed Austal USA’s Mobile yard and will commission August 24th in Corpus Christi.

 

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While rescuing sailors from merchant ship MV Sounion in the Red Sea on Wednesday, French destroyer FS Chevalier Paul neutralised a Houthi one-way attack USV.

In 1943, HMS Umbra claimed to have scored a unique victory by torpedoing a plane. When Umbra hit an enemy ship in the Mediterranean with a torpedo, a column of fire shot 1,000 feet in the air in front of three low-flying escort planes. Only two planes emerged.

 

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The UK Ministry of Defense (MOD) wants a “remote” location to store at least 27 nuclear reactor pressure vessels (RPVs) from nuclear submarines, pending a permanent repository. From 2012, and still trying to find a resolution.

 

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On this day in 1982, USS Houston (SSN-713) on sea trials stalking the last conventionally powered US Navy aircraft carrier, USS John F. Kennedy (CV-67), as she heads out on deployment.

 

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ARA Almirante Storni (P-53) is the third Gowind-class offshore patrol vessel constructed for the Argentinian Navy. 2021.

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