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GCC Navies Build for Persistent Patrols in Home Waters

Published in the Middle East Feb/Mar 2021 Supplement - While international navies provide larger warships to patrol the waters of the Gulf, GCC nations...
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ESG amphibious capability boosts US, allied Euro-Atlantic presence

Published in the October/November 2020 issue - Rear Admiral Robert Katz, Commander explains how expeditionary strike groups are central to how the United States...
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NATO bears down on ASW

Exercise Dynamic Mongoose strengthens anti-submarine warfare skills and wider trans-Atlantic naval team building. The strategic, operational, and technological impact of the return of state-based naval...
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Sense, Send and Strike

The system modernisation programme for the Royal Canadian Navy’s four Victoria-class submarines is upgrading all three core elements of a submarine’s at-sea contribution to...
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Admiral Modernises Pakistan Navy To Meet Non-Traditional Threats

Chief of the Pakistan Navy, Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi discusses how he is expanding the capabilities and operational outputs of his navy at a...
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Searching for The Silent Service

Royal Australian Navy is honing its anti-submarine warfare skills with the help of Allies including the US Navy. History of Submarines in the North Atlantic...
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Dynamic Manta highlights numbers game in NATO ASW effort

NATO’s anti-submarine warfare (ASW)-focused Exercise Dynamic Manta – currently underway in the Mediterranean region’s Ionian Sea – is highlighting the impact of submarine numbers...
Wave-Rider

NATO’s CMRE adds unmanned vehicles to ‘Dynamic Manta’ submarine hunt

NATO’s Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE) is operating unmanned vehicles as additional submarine hunters during the alliance’s Dynamic Manta exercise, taking place...
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Babcock’s Arrowhead 140 Type 31 Design Provides for Future Adaptability

Arrowhead 140 Frigate Concept Babcock’s Arrowhead 140 frigate concept, selected by the United Kingdom as the preferred design for its Type 31 general purpose future...
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UK’s Second Carrier to Act as Technology Demonstrator in 2021

The UK Royal Navy (RN) is seeking to use its aircraft carrier programme as an opportunity for industry to demonstrate new maritime unmanned systems...

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