ARLINGTON, Va. — The Royal New Zealand Navy has tied up three of its nine ships due to crew shortages. 279-foot offshore patrol vessels titled the HMNZS Wellington and HMNZS Otago and 180-foot inshore patrol vessel HMZNS Hawea are in…
Thai Navy Corvette Sinks in Heavy Seas
ARLINGTON, Va. — The Royal Thai Navy (RTN) corvette HTMS Sukhothai (FS 442) has sunk in the Gulf of Thailand after foundering in heavy seas Dec. 1. Of the crew of 106 personnel, 75 have been reportedly rescued as the…
Maritime Domain Awareness Starts with Seeing What’s on the Sea
MANAMA, Bahrain — The U.S. Fifth Fleet’s Task Force 59 is conducting Digital Horizon, an unmanned systems demonstration featuring a flotilla of different unmanned surface vessels to help build maritime awareness. Digital Horizon is one of the ways that Task…
National Museum of the Surface Navy to Present 2022 “Freedom of the Seas” Awards
SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The National Museum of the Surface Navy (NMSN) is presenting its 2022 “Freedom of the Seas” awards at a gala on Saturday night, Oct. 22, aboard the historic battleship USS Iowa at San Pedro, California. According…
‘OpTech’ Workshop Will Focus on Littoral Environment in Baltic Sea
HELSINKI — The Littoral OpTech Baltic Sea workshop coming up at the end of August in Helsinki may look like a logical dialogue to have with navies in the region in the shadow of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, but it’s…
Ready-to-Fight Force Conducts Amphibious Assault During RIMPAC 2022
MARINE CORPS BASE HAWAII — With the theme of “Capable Adaptive Partners,” the 2022 Rim of the Pacific exercise has featured a wide range of capabilities, projecting the inherent flexibility of maritime forces and helping to promote a free and…
Indo-Pacific Maritime Security Exchange Provides Exclamation Point to RIMPAC
HONOLULU — As this year’s biennal, multinational Rim of the Pacific naval exercise is drawing to a close, naval experts will gather in Honolulu to conduct the 2022 Indo-Pacific Maritime Security Exchange, or IMSE, essentially punctuating the end of RIMPAC…
Royal Navy’s New Ship Will be an Autonomy and Lethality Accelerator
PORTSMOUTH, UK — The Royal Navy welcomed the experimental vessel XV Patrick Blackett (X01) on July 29 in a ceremony at Portsmouth, United Kingdom. The Royal Navy refers to the new ship, which has the hull number X01, as an…
Missile Exercise Sends Frigate to the Bottom
HAWAII — Units from Australia, Canada, Malaysia and the United States took part in a live-fire missile exercise that resulted in the sinking of a former U.S. Navy guided missile frigate at sea on July 12. The ships and aircraft,…
U.S. Affirms Support for Philippines Over Disputed Islands
MANILA, Philippines — Demonstrators gathered outside the Chinese embassy in Manila on July 12 to mark the sixth anniversary of 2016 international court arbitration ruling that invalidated Beijing’s vast territorial claims in the South China Sea. The Philippines say China continues…
