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Exercise comprises various drills across the spectrum of maritime operations: French Embassy (File) New Delhi: The Indian and French navies on Sunday kicked off a three-day mega wargame in the Arabian Sea in the backdrop of rising concern over Chinas growing maritime presence in the Indian Ocean region. The French Navy has deployed its nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, and its entire carrier strike group in the exercise, reflecting the seriousness of the drill. The French Emb...

Varuna naval exercise between India, France to begin on Sunday ANI | Updated: Apr 24, 2021 22:00 IST New Delhi [India], April 24 (ANI): The nineteenth edition of the Indian and French Navy bilateral exercise Varuna -2021 will begin on Sunday. The three-day exercise will see high tempo-naval operations at sea, including advanced air defence and anti-submarine exercises, intense fixed and rotary wing flying operations, tactical manoeuvres, surface and anti-...

4 NAS SIGONELLA, Italy – The Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (IKE CSG) is a multiplatform team of ships, aircraft and more than 5,000 Sailors, capable of carrying out a wide variety of missions around the globe. It brings multi-mission capable platforms to the U.S. Sixth Fleet area of operations with strike, ballistic missile defense, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities. Last March, the IKE was the first aircraft carrier to conduct a logi...

Taira Payne is the Project Manager, Digital Assets & Web for the U.S. Naval Institute. She holds a Master of Library and Information Science, specializing in Archives and Digital Curation, from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor’s in History from Washington College. Prior to working for the U.S. Naval Institute, Taira held intern and fellowship positions at the U.S. Naval Academy Museum, CV Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience, Maryland State Archives, Gilder Lehrman...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - Agusta-Bell AB212. The European Union naval tasking off the Horn of Africa, which started life as protection for World Food Programme (WFP) vessels delivering food aid to stricken communities in Somalia and other countries in the region, has developed into a full-fledged maritime mission. A critical component of the mission, codenamed Operation Atalanta, is aerial assets. These include maritime patrol and reconnaissance aircraft; maritime helicopters, termed ...

February 25 - 2021 PORT SUDAN USNS Carson City arrives at Port Sudan harbour on Wednesday (Picture: US Embassy Khartoum) A rapid transport ship of the US Military Maritime Transport Command USNS Carson City arrived at Port Sudan harbour on the Red Sea on Wednesday “to enhance maritime security in the region” in a new indication of a post-embargo thaw in Sudan-US relations this year. In a statement via social media on Wednesday, the US Embassy in Khartoum stated that...

392 A Sandy Hook native is serving aboard Commander Task Force (CTF) 63, a duty station in Naples, Italy. Lieutenant Michael Kirk is a 2010 Fairfield College Preparatory School graduate and a 2014 United States Merchant Marine Academy graduate. Today, Kirk serves as a member of the U.S. Navy Reserve’s Strategic Sealift Officer Force (SSOF). “Our main purpose is to crew up cargo ships held in reserve to support the military’s logistics missions, in times of war or national emergency,” sa...

AP Photo/File The story of fighter directors is one of the last unknown stories of WW2. The epic of radar development is a familiar one. But less well known is the history of the information systems that made it work and the men who ran them. Innovative radar displays, combat information centers, helped, but, ultimately, it was the Combat Air Patrol quarterbacks, the superstar fighter directors (FDOs), who defended the fast carriers. In the beginning there were no criteria for selecting those w...

Full article USS Vermont is the newest submarine in the US Fleet and is visiting Brazil’s newest submarine base the Itaguaí naval base in the state of Rio de Janeiro The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Vermont (SSN 792) is operating in the US 4th Fleet area of operations and conducted a brief stop for logistics in Rio de Janeiro December 10-15. Vermont is the newest submarine in the US Fleet and is visiting Brazil’s newest submar...

Mon, 12/14/2020 - 12:37pm -- tim US Navy file photo of USS Vermont (SSN-792) underway on the Thames River at Groton, Connecticut (USA), on 15 October 2020. Vermont Business Magazine The Virginia-class fast-attack submarine USS Vermont (SSN 792) is operating in the US 4th Fleet area of operations and conducted a brief stop for logistics in Rio de Janeiro December 10-15. Vermont is the newest submarine in the US Fleet and is visiting Brazil’s newest submarine base the Itaguaí naval base in th...