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An Indian Navy vessel has arrived in Nelson Mandela Bay ahead of a scheduled tri-nation naval exercise.

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - A SA Navy Valour Class frigate alongside in Simons Town. South Africa’s maritime service is taking up the cudgels of the virtual information era thrust on the world by COVID-19 and will on Friday host the SA Navy’s first virtual conference centring on the “security of seaways and maritime infrastructure”. The virtual gathering will, according to the organisers, be streamed from an unnamed Navy vessel in all probability moored alongside in Simon’s To...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - SAS Drakensberg (A301). Parliament’s Joint Standing Committee on Defence (JSCD) heard the South African military, in all probability in the form of the Joint Operations Division, “prompted a conversation” with Mozambique as regards the “modus operandi and execution” of the regional anti-piracy tasking Operation Copper. In what a committee member termed “a masterstroke of under-statement” given the volatile situation in north...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - SAS Mendi (F148) alongside at Naval Base Durban, The midlife upgrades of SA Navy (SAN) prime mission equipment – its frigates and submarines – are at concept and feasibility study phases with further progress on hold according to Armscor. In its latest annual report, the State-owned defence and security acquisition agency has it the project to upgrade the four Valour Class frigates “is in the concept phase that commenced in February 2016”....

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - Valour Class frigates at Naval Base Durban. Picture: SA Navy Naval Base Durban, home to the patrol squadron of the SA Navy (SAN), is on track to welcome the first multi-mission inshore patrol vessel (MMIPV) come mid-year. While the base at Salisbury Island in the greater Durban port precinct, is still in transition from a naval station to a fully-fledged base, it’s all hands on deck as base commander Rear Admiral (JG) Jabulani Amos Mbotho has taken charge o...

defenceWeb Written by defenceWeb - SAS Galeshewe (P1567) docked at what was Naval Station Durban, now again a naval base. While the offshore patrol vessel (OPV) SAS Galeshewe (P1567) might be said to be decommissioned, the Navy Office in Pretoria has it the former strikecraft is “currently in Class 1 Reserve”. This means, according to a statement from SA Navy (SAN) headquarters in Visagie Street, Galeshewe can be recommissioned “if we would be able to do so”. SAS Isaac Dyobha (P1565) a...