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Northern Viking 2024

Iceland, US, and allies conduct annual ‘Northern Viking’ exercise

Iceland, the United States, four NATO partners, and NATO Allied Maritime Command’s (MARCOM’s) Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG1) are underway with the US-led...
HMS Queen Elizabeth

Which Kind of Intensity?

Western navies are seeking the right balance in training types between simulated, synthetic training that can deliver intensity in terms of asset or firepower...
Ohio-class guided-missile submarine USS Georgia

USN Mediterranean training activity demonstrates amphibious and special forces integration with submarine ops

The US Navy (USN) has conducted integrated training, involving a nuclear-powered guided-missile submarine (SSGN) and marine reconnaissance personnel and naval special operations forces (SOF),...
ITS Carabiniere, an ITN ASW-focused FREMM frigate

Italy signs contract for two FREMM EVO frigates

The Italian Navy (ITN) will receive two new FREMM multi-role frigates, under a contract announced on 31 July. The ships will be built to...
RIMPAC 2024

RAN conducts successful NSM firing at RIMPAC

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has successfully test-fired a Naval Strike Missile (NSM) during the US Navy (USN)-hosted ‘RIMPAC’ exercise off Hawaii. The NSM anti-ship...
HMS Diamond returns home after historic front-line mission

New UK government initiates new UK defence review

The United Kingdom’s (UK’s) new government has announced it will conduct a fresh review of UK defence requirements. In a statement released on 16 July,...
UK-Ukr-MOD

New UK defence secretary underlines security commitment priorities

The UK’s incoming Secretary of State (SofS) for Defence has underlined several key defence and security commitments the country’s new government will continue to...
USS Carl Vinson

‘RIMPAC’ naval presence underlines Indo-Pacific/Euro-Atlantic strategic linkage

The US Navy’s (USN’s) major biennial ‘Rim of the Pacific’ (‘RIMPAC’) exercise got underway off Hawaii on 27 June, with the exercise’s routine multinational...
Admiral Gorshkov-class frigates

Russia deploys task group to Caribbean and Cuba

A Russian Federation Navy task group has visited Havana, Cuba, in what is being seen as a display of power projection capability. Four naval vessels...
Torpedo first for Royal Air Force Poseidon sub-hunter

UK, French, Norwegian MPAs combine to hunt reported Russian submarine

Maritime patrol aircraft (MPAs) from the United Kingdom, France, and Norway have been working together to prosecute a suspected Russian submarine target, in a...

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