Monthly Archives: September 2026

Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II at RNZAF Base Ohakea

Royal Australian Air Force Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II at RNZAF Base Ohakea

Vintage meets modern: Swordfish and Seafire conduct flypast over HMS Queen Elizabeth

Jonathan Moynihan – 10th September 2026 at 12:04pm Two vintage Fleet Air Arm aircraft have conducted a flypast over one of the UK’s aircraft carriers as she continues on her three-month deployment around the country and northern Europe.  A Swordfish and a Seafire from Navy Wings, a naval aviation charity, flew past HMS Queen ElizabethContinue reading “Vintage meets modern: Swordfish and Seafire conduct flypast over HMS Queen Elizabeth”

Goodbye HMS Northumberland as decommissioned warship makes final departure

Tim Cooper – 10th September 2026 at 9:00am Many former crew members will likely shed a tear at the sight of ex-HMS Northumberland being ignominiously towed out of Portsmouth Harbour by a tug. But this is the fate that awaits almost every Royal Navy warship in the end, with Northumberland expected to end up inContinue reading “Goodbye HMS Northumberland as decommissioned warship makes final departure”

NZDF helps Kiribati dispose of almost 300 Second World War munitions

Residents and workers in one of Kiribati’s most densely populated communities are now safer after a joint Kiribati-New Zealand operation to safely dispose of hundreds of Second World War-era unexploded ordnance (UXO) items in Betio, Kiribati. 10 September, 2026 Supported by the New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade, a Royal New Zealand AirContinue reading “NZDF helps Kiribati dispose of almost 300 Second World War munitions”

Guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG 103)

Guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG 103) has left the Royal Jordanian Naval Base, just outside of Aqaba, Jordan, following a four-day logistics stop, and a change of command (a Black Sea grounding incident happened on February 12, 2014).http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Truxtun_(DDG-103)The Navy informs that In the change of command ceremony former executive officer, Cmdr. Drew Bates, assumed command.Continue reading “Guided-missile destroyer USS Truxtun (DDG 103)”