Posts Tagged ‘warships’

US Sends Warships Through The Taiwan Strait For First Time Since Pelosi Visit

Two US warships sailed through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday in the first such US operation since House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) visited Taipei at the beginning of August. The US Navy’s Seventh Fleet said the Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruisers USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville made the passage through the Strait. China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) slammed the […]

U.S. Warships Pass Taiwan Strait

The U.S. has deployed two of its warships to the Taiwan Strait in a first such mission since the controversial visit of U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi to Taipei, the Navy said on Saturday. Media reports said: USS Chancellorsville and USS Antietam, guided-missile cruisers, are sailing through international waters in the area, according to a […]

U.S. Sails Warships Through Taiwan Strait In 1st Since Pelosi Visit

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. Navy sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in the first such transit publicized since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August, at a time when tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy. The USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville are conducting a routine transit, […]

U.S. Sails Warships Through Taiwan Strait In 1st Since Pelosi Visit

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. Navy sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in the first such transit publicized since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August, at a time when tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy. The USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville are conducting a routine transit, […]

U.S. Sails Warships Through Taiwan Strait In 1st Since Pelosi Visit

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. Navy sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in the first such transit publicized since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August, at a time when tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy. The USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville are conducting a routine transit, […]

U.S. Sails Warships Through Taiwan Strait In 1st Since Pelosi Visit

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. Navy sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in the first such transit publicized since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August, at a time when tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy. The USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville are conducting a routine transit, […]

U.S. Sails Warships Through Taiwan Strait In 1st Since Pelosi Visit

TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — The U.S. Navy sailed two warships through the Taiwan Strait on Sunday, in the first such transit publicized since U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi visited Taiwan earlier in August, at a time when tensions have kept the waterway particularly busy. The USS Antietam and USS Chancellorsville are conducting a routine transit, […]

Sunken Nazi WWII Warships Resurface In Danube River As Drought Worsens

Record-high temperatures across Europe have exacerbated regional droughts so heavily that dozens of German warships from World War II resurfaced in Serbia. Source

Over 50 warships take part in Russia`s Navy Day parade in St Petersburg

Russia’s Main Naval Parade took place in St Petersburg and Kronshtadt on Navy Day on July 25 (the event is annually celebrated on the last Sunday of July), and was attended by President Vladimir Putin. This year, the Russian Navy is celebrating its 325h anniversary. The parade featured 54 ships, including the missile cruiser “Marshal […]

USA Sends Warships to Black Sea so they can Start War with Russia over Ukraine

    American sailors have set course for the Black Sea, off the south coast of Russia, in a move widely seen as a show of support for Ukraine, where fighting between Kiev’s forces and separatist militias has worsened in recent weeks. On Friday, a source at the Turkish foreign ministry told TASS that it […]

Iran’s ballistic missiles destroy mock enemy warships 1,800 kilometers away during drills

TEHRAN– Iran’s home-grown ballistic missiles have destroyed mock enemy warships with pin-point accuracy, hundreds of kilometers away, in the northern Indian Ocean as the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) conducts massive military drills. During the second and last stage of the drills, codenamed the Great Prophet 15, the IRGC’s missiles detected and destroyed the targets […]

WATCH Iran’s Revolutionary Guards destroy mock WARSHIPS with ballistic missiles

Iran’s elite Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) has successfully destroyed naval targets amid massive military drills. Mock warships were moored some 1,800 km from the ballistic missiles launch site. The tests were carried out on Saturday as part of large-scale military drills dubbed ‘The Great Prophet 15’. Footage released by the country’s media shows launches […]

Israeli navy prepares for long-awaited arrival of upgraded warships

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Greek and Turkish warships collide in Mediterranean ‘accident,’ defense official says

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Amid Escalating Tensions, US Warships Sail Just Miles off Coast of China

A U.S. warship and military aircraft were spotted traveling southwest from Japan towards China yesterday afternoon, in what some fear is a growing escalation of aggression towards Beijing. A Boeing P-8A Poseidon (hex code AE68A2), an anti-submarine aircraft appeared to be working in conjunction with the anti-submarine destroyer the U.S.S. Rafael Peralta, patrolling as close as […]

SouthCom Warships Sailing Near Venezuelan Shores

SouthCom Warships Sailing Near Venezuelan Shores Above photo: US warship from Southern Command. This Wednesday it was learned that the United States Navy (US) sailed into Venezuelan waters, “to challenge the excessive claim of Venezuela on June 23”, when the Minister of Popular Power for Defense, G / J Vladimir Padrino López , warned that […]

US warships sail near disputed South China Sea islands – report

USS ‘Higgins,’ an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, and USS ‘Antietam,’ a Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser, came within 12 nautical miles of the islands, two US officials told Reuters on condition of anonymity. The ships reportedly carried out maneuvers near Tree, Lincoln, Triton and Woody Islands in the Paracels. Beijing has been building artificial islands and deploying […]

Full steam ahead! Russian Navy gets new nuclear sub, warships, and Kalibr cruise missiles

     The Russian Navy has expanded its strategic capabilities by commissioning a nuclear submarine, three new warships, two helicopters and a number of home-made Kalibr cruise missiles. “The Navy took delivery of the repaired Project 667BDRM strategic underwater missile cruiser Tula, three warships and support vessels of the auxiliary fleet, two helicopters and 46 Kalibr […]

Russian Reinforcements Head for Syria: Warships Laden with Tanks, Military Trucks and Armoured Patrol Boats

Two Russian warships laden with military vehicles have been spotted en route to Syria after Friday’s US-led airstrikes obliterated three alleged chemical weapons sites. An Alligator-landing ship was pictured cruising down The Bosphorus on Sunday as the world awaits Vladimir Putin’s response to this week’s co-ordinated military action against Syria.  The vessel was spotted on its way to the Russian […]

US Deploys Truman Carrier Strike Group And 7 Warships To Syria

The U.S. military deployed the Truman Carrier Strike Group and 7 warships equipped with cruise missiles to Syria on Wednesday.  The aircraft carrier was accompanied by guided-missile destroyers USS Arleigh Burke (DDG 51), USS Bulkeley (DDG 84), USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98) and USS Farragut (DDG 99), as well as the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy […]

Satellite Images Reveal “Massive Show Of Force” By 40 Chinese Warships, Aircraft Carrier

China’s Liaoning aircraft carrier is combat ready In what Reuters has dubbed a massive “show of force“, dozens of Chinese warships have been observed on satellite imagery, exercising with an aircraft carrier and warplanes above the heavily-disputed South China Sea, as part of the previously noted  massive military drills, which the PLA ominously […]

Theresa May Deploys Warships To Russia As WW3 Looms

British Prime Minister Theresa May has deployed Navy warships to the Russian coast as tensions between Russia and the UK reach boiling point. The large-scale military exercise, being led by NATO forces, is being done in a desperate effort to combat “increasingly aggressive military activity” by Moscow. Express.co.uk reports: Dubbed “Dynamic Manta 2018”, the operation will […]

Russia begins development of Syrian bases to host nuclear warships & warplanes

The bases in Tartus and Khmeimim are among a handful of military installations Russia has in foreign nations. Earlier this year, Russia and Syria finalized an agreement regulating the presence of Russian troops in Syria. Khmeimim Airbase, located near Latakia, and the naval site in the port city of Tartus have both been handed over […]

WW3: Iran Deploys Fleet Of Warships To U.S. Border

Iran is sending a fleet of warships to the Atlantic Ocean where they are expected to sit just outside of the U.S. border.  Iranian military leaders announced Tuesday that they intend to solidify ties with several Latin America states, as well as send a strong, defiant message to the USA. According to the commander of […]

Navy Commander: Iran to send fleets of warships to Italy, Spain, Algeria

FNA- Commander of the Iranian Navy Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi announced the country’s plans to dispatch flotillas of warships to Italy, Spain and Algeria. “The Italian fleets of warships have made several visits to Bandar Abbas (a Southern port city in Iran) so far and we have friendly relations with the Italian Navy now and […]

Iran underlines rigid resolve to deploy warships to Gulf of Mexico

FNA- New Commander of the Iranian Navy Rear Admiral Hossein Khanzadi announced that his country is serious about sending its fleet of warships to Latin America and the Gulf of Mexico despite the US opposition. “We are not faced with any restriction for deploying in the seas, and anywhere we feel that we have interests […]

US Navy to investigate whether warships were the victims of a cyber attack

US Navy to investigate whether warships were the victims of a cyber attack Daily Mail August 22, 2017 A top admiral has said that the US Navy will ‘consider’ whether two fatal collisions this summer could have been the result of a cyber attack. Admiral John Richardson, the chief of naval operations, said on Monday […]

Iran Threatens to Send Warships to Atlantic and Ramp Up Nuclear Activities if US Continues Sanctions

By Aaron Kesel Amid Americans’ concerns that North Korea threatened to launch a missile at Guam, Iran is planning on building up a flotilla of warships in the Atlantic Ocean, while Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani has threatened to revitalize the country’s nuclear program if the U.S. continues “threats and sanctions.” If Washington continues with “threats and […]

Russia’s most powerful warships gear up for Navy Day (PHOTOS, VIDEO)

St. Petersburg’s port of Kronstadt, the historic base of the Russian Baltic Fleet, will be holding a 40-strong naval flotilla on the Neva river. Battlecruiser the ‘Pyotr Velikiy’ and ballistic missile-carrying nuclear submarine the ‘Dmitry Donskoy’ arrived in the port on Tuesday evening to take part in the upcoming event. The two are among the […]

British, Turkish warships arrive in Ukraine for NATO Black Sea drills (PHOTOS)

The Royal Navy’s ‘HMS Duncan’ and the Turkish Navy frigate ‘Yildirim’ moored in the Black Sea port of Odessa on Monday, the Ukrainian Defense Ministry wrote on its website. Both ships, which belong to NATO Standing Maritime Group 2 (NSMG2) covering the Mediterranean, are expected to remain in Ukrainian waters until July 27.   “The program […]

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