While working with @NATO allies in the Black Sea this summer, as part of Operation Reassurance, Canadian mine warfare specialists helped seize 'a naval drone [pictured] intercepted while transiting by the current toward the city of Constanta, Romania,' according to the
And this is the most spectacular video in the released visuals of Klakring's end...
The ex-US Navy frigate Klakring, commissioned 1983, retired in 2013 and a veteran of the 1980s Tanker War, was the target in an Anglo-US sinking exercise (SINKEX) off NW Scotland. During Exercise Atlantic Thunder the @USNavy (USN) destroyer USS Paul Ignatius and @RoyalNavy (RN)
The ex-US Navy frigate Klakring, commissioned 1983, retired in 2013 and a veteran of the 1980s Tanker War, was the target in an Anglo-US sinking exercise (SINKEX) off NW Scotland. During Exercise Atlantic Thunder the @USNavy (USN) destroyer USS Paul Ignatius and @RoyalNavy (RN)
The new British attack submarine HMS Agamemnon @RoyalNavy is seen here departing the Walney Channel this morning having yesterday exited the Barrow-in-Furness submarine construction yard of @BAES_Maritime After heading out into Morecambe Bay will likely make her delivery voyage
Looking crisp is the preserved WW2 corvette HMCS Sackville, of the Flower Class at Halifax, Nova Scotia. A pic by our regular contributor Yoshiharu Fukushima (lo rez version) and taken during his voyage with the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Training Squadron, which will be
The future USS John F. Kennedy is the cover star of our new edition, out now. Second of the Gerald R. Ford Class nuclear-powered aircraft carriers and a striking image courtesy of HII Newport News Shipbuilding, showing the ship completing acceptance sea trials in the summer.
A few days ago in the South China Sea: the @Australian_Navy frigate HMAS Perth conducts a Replenishment-at-Sea (RAS) with @USNavy Nimitz Class aircraft carrier, USS Abraham Lincoln, while attached to Carrier Strike Group 3 (CSG-3). Photo: LSA Luke Clarke/RAN.
Snazzy video of @RoyalNavy Daring Class (Type 45) destroyer @HMSDauntless inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth a few days ago. Vid courtesy of @StephenJagger4
Here's the @RoyalNavy Duke Class (Type 23) frigate @HMSSutherland inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth at the end of last week. Video courtesy of @StephenJagger4
Here's the Royal Netherlands Navy @kon_marineLanding Platform Dock (LPD) HNLMS Johan de Witt seen inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth end of last week. The Rotterdam Class amphibious ship is believed to be on Operational Sea Training (OST) for national and NATO tasking. Works
Warships podcast: 'Britain’s Hybrid Navy & Thinking Up Front - the challenges of making the UK’s "hybrid navy" a reality'. There is surely much to learn and absorb from Steve Prest @fightingsailor for the United Kingdom's political and military leadership when it comes to the
In case you do not see the link lower down https://pod.fo/e/532363
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Amid the latest Falklands brouhaha British politicians have been strong on social media, as ever, asserting the right to self-determination of the islanders. But as, our Editor @IBallantyn has pointed out to @wesstreeting the UK Secretary of State for Defence, there is the
The French Navy @MarineNationale Loire Class Metropolitan Offshore Support and Assistance Vessel (BSAM) FS Garonne seen outbound from @HMNBDevonport Plymouth at the weekend. She was assisting in a search and rescue operation for five missing people following the sinking of a
The Royal Navy has revealed that three of its naval units – destroyer HMS Duncan, frigate HMS St Albans and patrol vessel HMS Severn – monitored two Russian Navy warships, a tanker and sanctioned cargo ships as they proceeded through the Channel.
When Russian vessels approached
The new (Sept) edition of the magazine is now deployed, with the Royal Norwegian Navy @Forsvaret_no submarine HNoMS Utstein as the cover star, an image by the redoubtable Michael Nitz and goes with our profile of the RNoN's Ula Class boats inside. As ever the mag is packed full
Royal Fleet Auxiliary @RFAHeadquarters Tide Class replenishment tanker RFA Tideforce inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth. Video courtesy of @StephenJagger4 for this mag.
Here’s the Duke Class (Type 23) frigate @HMSSomerset of @RoyalNavy outbound from @HMNBDevonport Plymouth this morning. HMS Somerset, an anti-submarine vessel, was recently deployed into northern waters with the UK Carrier Strike Group (UK CSG). This clip appears to show
The @RFAHeadquarters Multi-Role Ocean Surveillance Ship (MROSS) RFA Proteus is seen here inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth yesterday afternoon. Under the recently published Defence Investment Plan the UK Govt has promised to invest £300 million, between now and 2030, in
For more on the UK’s Defence Investment Plan (DIP) get our latest (Aug) edition. Out now as hard copy and digital versions https://warshipsifr.com/subscriptions/
Warships Pod 51: 'Suez on Steroids And Britain’s Naval Identity Crisis'. Returning guest David Murrin @GlobalForecastr begins the podcast discussion with @IBallantyn by considering US President Donald Trump’s gambits in the Middle East as he seeks to prevail over Iran. Among
Trip down memory lane from our Editor @IBallantyn
A pic of the Royal Navy Landing Platform Dock (LPD) HMS Fearless. Again there are no notes on the back of this print from the 'not for use drawer', so relying on my recollections. I first encountered one of these vessels in 1990 - sister ship HMS Intrepid - during NATO's
The @RoyalNavy strike carrier HMS Prince of Wales returning to Portsmouth yesterday after three months away, including on @NATO duties, in northern waters. Photo by our regular contributor Derek Fox. If you want to know more about @HMSPWLS during the deployment please do check
RUSSIAN FRIGATE CONDUCTS LIVE-FIRING
EXERCISE OFF SOUTHERN ENGLAND
By @IBallantyn
Editor, Warships IFR magazine
Here’s the Russian frigate RFS Neustrashimiy, which carried out a live-firing exercise within international waters off England, more than 40 miles to the south of
Helicopter perspective: a US Navy aircrewman guides an MH-60S Seahawk, as it lands on the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt during exercises in the Pacific Ocean. Photo: Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Aaron Haro Gonzalez/USN.
The Royal Norwegian Navy (RNoN) frigate HNoMS Fridtjof Nansen (nearest) sails into New York – with US Navy warships at anchor, ahead, in front of a spectacular skyline - to take part in the 250th anniversary of American Independence. The International Naval Review 250 (INR250)
As part of events to celebrate the 250th anniversary of American Independence 26 vessels from 13 Allied and partner nations sailed in formation during a multi-national maritime exercise off the east coast of the United States. It was part of Fleet Exercise (FLEETEX) 250. Photo:
Odin sometimes finds it very hard to 'hold fast' in the monthly magazine cycle when he wants to unleash a devastating commentary broadside at numpties destroying our beloved Royal Navy...
Odin is keeping his powder dry for writing about the farcical UK Defence Investment Plan for our leader commentary in the next @WarshipsIFR mag. However, his one good eye is bulging, face is red, teeth grinding and smoke is coming from his ears...I have ordered him to stay off X
The German Navy @deutschemarine Sachsen Class frigate FGS Hessen inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth yesterday afternoon. Video courtesy of @StephenJagger4
The German Navy @deutschemarine Berlin Class replenishment ship FGS Berlin inbound to @HMNBDevonport Plymouth at the end of last week. Video courtesy of @StephenJagger4
Any fuel* knows that key to keeping warships on station in operational areas where it isn't possible to call in at a friendly naval base/dockyard for support or repairs is a floating workshop and/or supply vessel.
The Russians don't mind keeping older vessels in commission if
