Monthly Archives: June 2014

The Navy’s stealthy Zumwalt destroyer is anchored at Bath Iron Works in Bath, Maine. (Robert F. Bukaty / AP) By David Sharp The Associated Press FILED UNDER News Military Technology BATH, MAINE — Bath Iron Works is getting ready to bring fuel aboard the Navy’s biggest destroyer in preparation for firing up some of the world’sContinue reading “Bath Iron Works is getting ready to bring fuel aboard the Navy’s biggest destroyer in preparation for firing up some of the world’s largest marine turbines this summer.”

INS Kamorta to Join the Indian Navy in July by Naval Today via Naval Today >> The industry’s seaborne news provider INS Kamorta, the first indigenous anti-submarine corvette as well as the first indigenous stealth corvette built by India, is expected to join the Indian Navy late next month. The vessel, which was designed and manufactured by GardenContinue reading “INS Kamorta to Join the Indian Navy in July”

‘Nabob the Paybob’ And it came to pass that there was a great deficit of a**e in the land and Nabob, son of Paybob, travelled the road from Pompey to Guzz and as he passed through Fareham he was set upon by bandits. But these were not just any old bandits, they were a**e bandits,Continue reading “Here is HMS Nabob again – Nabob, the son of Paybob included – click the link read”

Launch of Vladivostok April 29, 2014, the site Vyborg Shipyard (one of the units of JSC “United Shipbuilding Corporation”) has launched the icebreaker Vladivostok, the first ship 21900M project, which includes three diesel-powered vessels electrical. The ceremony of laying the first sheet was held October 17, 2012.      It is a special technique that has been usedContinue reading “Launch of Vladivostok”