Monthly Archives: July 2012

Chinese landing ship spotted  By Jaime Laude (The Philippine Star) Updated July 20, 2012 12:00 AM Comments (58)  Photo taken by Philippine Navy Western Command’s Islander Surveillance Plane 314 shows Yuting Class Chinese landing ship moored near Zamora Reef off Philippine occupied Pag-Asa Island. | Zoom MANILA, Philippines – A Navy surveillance plane monitoring the activities of Chinese fishing vessels inContinue reading “Chinese landing ship spotted”

Asylum seeker boats are destroyed off Christmas Island. Pictures: Stephen Cooper Source: The Daily Telegraph IT is a routine process performed more and more often by the Royal Australian Navy – empty asylum seeker boats being towed back out to sea and set alight. Yesterday The Daily Telegraph got a rare look as two boats – which this weekContinue reading “Asylum seeker boats are destroyed off Christmas Island.”

2012      120715-N-PK322-065 SINGAPORE – The USS Vandergrift (FFG-48) arrives at Changi Naval Base in Singapore to participate in Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) Singapore 2012. CARAT is a series of bilateral military exercises between the U.S. Navy and the armed forces of Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Singapore, and Thailand. Sampson joinsContinue reading “USS Vandegrift, Sampson, Waesche Arrive Singapore for CARAT 2012”

  Missile Firing Success for Royal New Zealand Navy Warship 15:52 July 20, 2012 0 comments Press Release – New Zealand Defence Force “Command Approved, Sea Sparrow,” and with that the warship HMNZS TE KAHA let fly a NATO Sea Sparrow Missile in a live practice firing, achieving the successful destruction of a towed air ‘enemy’Continue reading “Missile Firing Success for Royal New Zealand Navy Warship”

Britain begins Olympics airspace security (0) | | |    Tweet     Royal Navy Helicopter Carrier HMS Ocean heads towards the Canary Wharf business district in London on its way to Greenwich as part of ongoing security peparations ahead of the London Olympics in July on May 4, 2012. The British Armed forces are staging various securityContinue reading “Britain begins Olympics airspace security”