China-Iran-Russia conduct Security Belt-2024
On 18 March the Chinese Ministry of Defence reported that the joint maritime exercise Security Belt-2024 involving China, Iran and Russia concluded as the...
RNZN provides boarding capability to HMS Tamar
The Royal New Zealand Navy (RNZN) is providing a boarding capability to support Royal Navy fishery patrols in Fiji. It was announced on 19...
NATO’s maritime message to Russia
Multiple naval task forces, all taking part in the largest NATO exercise in decades, have converged together to join HMS Prince of Wales and...
Smallest RN ships join big exercise
Four of the smallest vessels in the Royal Navy’s inventory this week take their place in NATO’s biggest exercise in a generation, the Royal...
New Chinese task group in Gulf of Aden
The latest People’s Liberation Army-Navy (PLA-N) task group deployed to the Gulf of Aden. The new 46th Rotation task group took over from the...
Russians, NATO in northern exercises
They are the Russian navy’s newest large warships and both are armed with Tsirkon missiles, a hypersonic weapon with a said operational range of...
Big NATO exercise in the Med
As reported by NATO on February 26, 2024, in Catania, Italy, the Mediterranean Sea is the setting for a significant NATO exercise known as...
Coast Guard seeks bigger Pacific role
Admiral Linda L. Fagan, Commandant of the United States Coast Guard (USCG), has been visiting allies in the South Pacific – such as Samoa,...
MILAN 2024 under way
India’s MILAN 2024 Multilateral Naval Exercise is underway. Scheduled from 19-27 February it is being held in and off Visakhapatnam the aegis of Eastern...
HMAS Warramunga in multi-national South China Sea transit
On 9 February it was reported that the frigate HMAS Warramunga conducted a multilateral transit through the South China Sea with US and Japanese...