The operation took place at night and was made possible by the completion of repairs to the aircraft carrier’s hull’s underwater section. The Kuznetsov has been under repair since 2018, but the bad luck that plagued it previously has yet to leave the vessel. The aircraft carrier is scheduled to return to service in 2024, according toContinue reading “Click here to see full post and photos – Russian Carrier Kuznetsov Leaves Dry Dock… At Last Naval News by Tomasz Grotnik / February 24, 2023 at 10:43PM”
Monthly Archives: March 2023
Click here to see full post and photos – Deeds Not Words – After almost eight years locked in port as part of the Navy’s troubled CG Phased Modernization Plan, the Tico-class Aegis cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64) saw blue water again last week on a short cruise under her own steam.
The Bath-built ship, commissioned on 22 June 1991, has been in what would have been described in the old days as “in ordinary” since September 2015 when she shifted homeports from Mayport to Norfolk and entered the CG Mod pipeline. Gettysburg and sister USS Cowpens started in 2015, followed by USS Vicksburg and USS Chosin in 2016, USS Anzio and USS Cape St. George in 2017, and USS HueContinue reading “Click here to see full post and photos – Deeds Not Words – After almost eight years locked in port as part of the Navy’s troubled CG Phased Modernization Plan, the Tico-class Aegis cruiser USS Gettysburg (CG 64) saw blue water again last week on a short cruise under her own steam.”
Click here to see full post and photos – Watch UK’s Type 45 destroyer firing Phalanx CIWS against aircraft Naval Today by Fatima Bahtić / February 25, 2023 at 04:15AM
The Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless has conducted firing exercise against aircraft as part of rigorous testing. Dauntless sails through a calm Irish Sea on trials; Photo: Royal Navy As informed, the testing of Phalanx Close-in Weapons Systems (CIWS) occurred last week. The weapons successfully tracked aircraft simulating attacks on the ship beforeContinue reading “Click here to see full post and photos – Watch UK’s Type 45 destroyer firing Phalanx CIWS against aircraft Naval Today by Fatima Bahtić / February 25, 2023 at 04:15AM”
Click here to see full post and photos Second LPD on the table in Algeria-Italy shipbuilding deal 27th February 2023 – 13:30 GMT | by Harry Lye, Giovanni Rasio in London
Algeria could get a second Landing Platform Dock (LPD) under a shipbuilding cooperation agreement being developed by Rome and Algiers. Algeria could get a second LPD to join Kalaat Beni-Abbes (pictured). (Photo: US DoD) Shephard understands that a second LPD is one potential part of the deal which would see Fincantieri and Algeria’s Établissement de ConstructionContinue reading “Click here to see full post and photos Second LPD on the table in Algeria-Italy shipbuilding deal 27th February 2023 – 13:30 GMT | by Harry Lye, Giovanni Rasio in London”
Click here to see full post and photos – The 1918 Disappearance of the USS Cyclops Is Still a Head-Scratcher As the Navy’s last missing “big ship,” the vessel likely sank because of its poor handling of a heavy ore load—but we still don’t have good evidence for what happened. BY KYLE MIZOKAMIPUBLISHED: FEB 28, 2023
Navy History and Heritage Command//20th Century Studios The USS Cyclops disappeared in 1918, a mystery that has never been explained. The ship, built to haul coal for steam-powered ships, was carrying a shipment of ore when she vanished. Various theories on her disappearance abounded, from U-boats to the Bermuda Triangle, but her load of heavier than usual ore was probably herContinue reading “Click here to see full post and photos – The 1918 Disappearance of the USS Cyclops Is Still a Head-Scratcher As the Navy’s last missing “big ship,” the vessel likely sank because of its poor handling of a heavy ore load—but we still don’t have good evidence for what happened. BY KYLE MIZOKAMIPUBLISHED: FEB 28, 2023”
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