HMS Stirling Castle still alongside in West Float Dock, Birkenhead. Crew have been training to operate the 100-tonne crane, vital to enable USV operations.
Reuters confirms the deployment of Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG-70) and Los Angeles-class attack submarine USS Newport News (SSN-750) to the coast of Venezuela. Newport News (SSN-750) is a Flight II Los Angeles-class with Tomahawk VLS.
Foremast installed on the first Type 31 Frigate, HMS Venturer.
USS Sampson stopped at the former US Navy facility Fort Rodman, subsequent to transiting the Panama for operations off Venezuela. A good shot of her 5-inch/62 calibre Mark 45 lightweight gun, a standard armament on Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.
Suspect in the Ingalls Shipbuilding Shooting Arrested, 1 Dead.USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG-129) is an Arleigh Burke-class (Flight III) Aegis guided missile destroyer of the United States Navy, the fourth Flight III variant.
Catch of the day!
The USCG Cutter Hamilton offloaded over 76,000 pounds of illegal drugs, valued at $473 million, at Port Everglades, Florida, as part of Operation Pacific Viper. This offload included approximately 61,740 pounds of cocaine and approximately 14,400 pounds of marijuana. The men and women of the Coast Guard will continue deploying overwhelming force against the cartels, cutting off the flow of drugs into the United States and putting an end to the cartels’ reign of terror.
HMS Agamemnon on the test and commissioning berth in Devonshire Dock, Barrow, BAES Maritime, with the steam barge (Steamhammer) alongside. The submarine is scheduled to be formally commissioned in the yard within the next few weeks, although it will not be operational for at least 18 months after that.
DARPA ( The U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency). First U.S. Navy Ship Built To Sail Without A Crew.
After a month with no RN SSNs at sea, an Astute-class submarine was outbound from Faslane last week.
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