Monthly Archives: June 2023

INS Vikrant and INS Vikramaditya operating together (Indian Navy image) The Indian Navy showcased its maritime capabilities with a display of multi-carrier operations and the coordinated deployment of more than 35 aircraft in the Arabian Sea. Naval News Staff  13 Jun 2023 Indian Navy press release This demonstration of naval prowess underscores India’s commitment to safeguardingContinue reading “Indian Navy Conducts Combined Operations With Two Aircraft Carriers”

Shephard Media Latest Articles by info@shephardmedia.com (Shephard Media) / June 14, 2023 at 12:23PM // keep unread // hide The New Zealand Army has decided to closely align itself and cooperate far more closely with its Australian counterpart. VISIT WEBSITE from Blogger https://ift.tt/t9ilKqA via IFTTT

Here at LSOZI, we take off every Wednesday for a look at the old steam/diesel navies of the 1833-1954 period and will profile a different ship each week. These ships have a life, a tale all their own, which sometimes takes them to the strangest places.- Christopher Eger U.S. Naval History and Heritage Command Photograph. NH 60479Continue reading “Warship Wednesday June 14 2023: Shoestring Tin Dragon”

USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) Murasame-class destroyer JS Samidare (DD-106) steam in formation during a multiple large deck event on June 9, 2023. US Navy Photo The U.S., Japan, Canada and France exercised with two U.S. carriers and a Japanese big deck in the Philippine Sea last week as partContinue reading “Indian U.S. and Japanese Big Decks Drill in the Indo-Pacific 100USNI News by Dzirhan Mahadzir / June 15 2023 at 07:53AM”

USN Photo via the National Archives The archives also have two great images of these VO-5 Kings in a take-off in formation on Casco Bay, undoubtedly taken around the same time, although they are for some reason listed as being in May and July respectively, although DANFS does list that New York was at Portland, Maine fromContinue reading “80 years ago today: Casco Bay Maine June 1943 a trio of OS2U Kingfisher floatplanes of Observation Squadron Five (VO-5) aboard the battlewagon USS New York (BB-34) while anchored at Casco Bay Maine on 16 June 1943.”