Monthly Archives: July 2026

USS Gerald R. Ford goes into maintenance following record-setting deployment By GARY WARNER STARS AND STRIPES • July 8, 2026 USS Gerald R. Ford arrives at Norfolk Naval Shipyard on July 7, 2026, to begin Planned Incremental Availability maintenance. (Shelby West/Norfolk Naval Shipyard)

USS Gerald R. Ford arrives at Norfolk Naval Shipyard on July 7, 2026, to begin Planned Incremental Availability maintenance. (Shelby West/Norfolk Naval Shipyard) Read more at: https://www.stripes.com/branches/navy/2026-07-08/uss-gerald-r-ford-maintenance-norfolk-22214197.htmlSource – Stars and Stripes Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford moved to Norfolk Naval Shipyard in Portsmouth, Va., on Tuesday for its first maintenance break since a recordContinue reading “USS Gerald R. Ford goes into maintenance following record-setting deployment By GARY WARNER STARS AND STRIPES • July 8, 2026 USS Gerald R. Ford arrives at Norfolk Naval Shipyard on July 7, 2026, to begin Planned Incremental Availability maintenance. (Shelby West/Norfolk Naval Shipyard)”

Philippines Confirms Deal to Acquire Five Japanese Abukuma-class Destroyer Escorts

Naval News by Kosuke Takahashi / Jul 8, 2026 at 8:59 AM The Philippines has reached a broad agreement with Japan to acquire five soon-to-be-retired Abukuma-class destroyer escorts from the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), marking one of Japan’s largest planned transfers of retired naval combatants to a foreign navy and another milestone in Tokyo’s evolving defense equipment transfer policy.Continue reading “Philippines Confirms Deal to Acquire Five Japanese Abukuma-class Destroyer Escorts”

Korean Warship spotted in the Hudson River

ROKS Munmu the Great (DDH-976), a Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin-class destroyer

The current HMS Montrose is the eighth of the sixteen-ship Type 23 or Duke class of frigates, of the Royal Navy, named after the Duke of Montrose. She was laid down in November 1989 by Yarrow Shipbuilders on the Clyde, and was launched on 31 July 1992 by Edith Rifkind (later Lady Rifkind), wife of (later Sir) Malcolm Rifkind, Secretary of State for Defence. She was commissioned into service in June 1994.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Montrose_(F236)

The current HMS Montrose is the eighth of the sixteen-ship Type 23 or Duke class of frigates, of the Royal Navy, named after the Duke of Montrose. She was laid down in November 1989 by Yarrow Shipbuilders on the Clyde, and was launched on 31 July 1992 by Edith Rifkind (later Lady Rifkind), wife of (later Sir) Malcolm Rifkind, Secretary of State for Defence. She was commissioned into service in June 1994.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HMS_Montrose_(F236)