RFA Argus acts as the target ship during the Royal Marines boarding training in the Mediterranean (Picture: Royal Navy). Royal Marines and Royal Navy helicopters have swooped in on their own vessel during adrenaline-fuelled boarding training alongside Algerian forces. RFA Argus, a Royal Fleet Auxiliary aviation support and casualty ship, acted as the ‘unfriendly’ targetContinue reading “Royal Marines take on pulsating boarding drills with Algerian forces in Mediterranean 5th December 2022 at 4:56pm”
Monthly Archives: December 2022
Bell Textron’s Valor wins Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft competition to replace Black Hawk The announcement gives Bell a massive victory not just in America but with the global community of 28 Black Hawk operators. By ASHLEY ROQUE on December 05, 2022 at 5:29 PM
The V-280 Valor, Bell’s entry for the Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, in flight. (Bell) EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a developing story. Check back for updates. WASHINGTON — After years of development, prototyping and test flights, the Army today announced that Bell Textron’s Valor tiltrotor has won its Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft (FLRAA) competition to be theContinue reading “Bell Textron’s Valor wins Army’s Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft competition to replace Black Hawk The announcement gives Bell a massive victory not just in America but with the global community of 28 Black Hawk operators. By ASHLEY ROQUE on December 05, 2022 at 5:29 PM”
HMS/HMNZS Wakakura(T00) was originally a First World War Castle-class naval trawler built in Canada. (Training jetty HMNZS Philomel??)
Ordered by the Admiralty, the vessel, named TR 1, was loaned to the Royal Canadian Navy for use on the East Coast of Canada. She was purchased by New Zealand in 1926 and transferred to the Royal New Zealand Navy when it was established in 1941. She displaced 530 tons standard, could manage 10Continue reading “HMS/HMNZS Wakakura(T00) was originally a First World War Castle-class naval trawler built in Canada. (Training jetty HMNZS Philomel??)”
HMS Hartland Point (A262/F 25) Beachy Head class repair ship.
Fleet Role: Landing Craft Maintenance Type: Victory (8580 dt) Completion Date: July 1945 Builder: BDD/VDD, Vancouver, BC History: 1956: Commenced conversion to Escort Maintenance ship; 1960: Operational base ship at Hong Kong; 1965: Reserve status at Portsmouth. Fate : Sold February 1974, broken up 1979 from JC’s Naval, Maritime and Military News https://ift.tt/8q9bjVL via IFTTT
USS Cincinnati (CL-6), was the third Omaha-class light cruiser, originally classified as a scout cruiser, built for the United States Navy. She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, the first being Cincinnati, an ironclad commissioned in 1862, during the Civil War, and the second being Cincinnati, a protected cruiser, that was decommissioned in 1919.
Cincinnati split her pre-war career between the Atlantic and the Pacific fleets. She served in the Scouting Fleet, based in the Atlantic, in 1924 to 1927, serving in the Pacific for a brief time in 1925 for fleet maneuvers. Cincinnati joined the Asiatic Fleet in 1927, and returned to the Atlantic from 1928 to 1932.Continue reading “USS Cincinnati (CL-6), was the third Omaha-class light cruiser, originally classified as a scout cruiser, built for the United States Navy. She was the third Navy ship named after the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, the first being Cincinnati, an ironclad commissioned in 1862, during the Civil War, and the second being Cincinnati, a protected cruiser, that was decommissioned in 1919.”
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