French sub burns in fierce fire
One of France’s six Rubis-class nuclear-powered submarines, the Perle, burned for more than 14 hours “in an unbelievably fierce fire” June 12 in dry...
HMS Queen Elizabeth set for strike operations
Aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has been declared “trained and safe” to conduct carrier strike operations, the UK Defence Journal reports.
Cdre Steve Moorhouse, Commander...
US Navy calls up reservists to shipyards
The Navy is activating 1,629 reservists to help reduce a carrier and submarine maintenance backlog at its public shipyards that is exacerbated by COVID-19,...
Disaster relief and drugs mission to Caribbean
HMS Medway and RFA Argus have come together for the first time on demanding disaster relief exercises in the Caribbean, the Royal Navy reports....
Repaired USS Fitzgerald heads to new home
Nearly three years to the day after the warship Fitzgerald collided with a merchant vessel off Japan, drowning seven U.S. sailors, the guided-missile destroyer...
Japan’s U-turn on Aegis combat system
By Ben Schreer*
Without informing its US ally, Japan this week abruptly put on hold the planned deployment of two Aegis Ashore systems that were intended...
Watershed moment in naval future
By Tim Barrett and Arthur H. ‘Trip’ Barber III
Australia is at a watershed moment in naval capability with the fleet’s regeneration over the next...
Aegis combat system to be upgraded
Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems has secured a US$37.5 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract modification to a previously awarded contract for additional Aegis combat system support for...
Trump orders Arctic ice-breaker fleet
U.S. President Trump ordered a review of the country’s requirements for icebreaking capabilities in the Arctic and Antarctic regions, with the goal of getting...
USS Nimitz heads to sea after quarantine
The aircraft carrier Nimitz and portions of its strike group left San Diego Monday for a deployment, the Navy Times reports.
Navy officials declined to say where...