By Gidget Fuentes – Staff writerPosted : Thursday Jun 21, 2012 9:26:46 EDT SAN DIEGO — Before its final leg home from deployment, the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group got a new mission: patrol and secure protected fishing areas in the southern Pacific. While that mission is routine to the Coast Guard, it was the first […]
https://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/06/navy-illegal-fishing-carl-vinson-pacific-062112/ By Gidget Fuentes – Staff writerPosted : Thursday Jun 21, 2012 9:26:46 EDT SAN DIEGO — Before its final leg home from deployment, the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group got a new mission: patrol and secure protected fishing areas in the southern Pacific. While that mission is routine to the Coast Guard, it was […]
New Delhi, June 12 — South Korea will soon become the fourth nation to join an India-China-Japan effort at coordinated anti-piracy patrols in the Gulf of Aden off Somalia, in a bid to effectively utilise their warships to escort cargo vessels in the brigand-affected waters. ‘South Korea has indicated its interest in join the tri-nation […]
By Kirk Spitzer TOKYO – The territorial disputes in the South China Sea are over, China has won, and the US couldn’t care less. But that’s not necessarily bad. While arguments over who owns which reefs, rocks and lagoons in the South China Sea will likely drag on awhile, the US is saving its […]
By Chad Selweski, For The Voice From her perch as chair of the House Subcommittee on Border and Maritime Security, Rep. Candice Miller is determined to repair a security operation on the U.S.-Canada border that is riddled with holes and, according to officials, presents a greater terrorism danger than the Mexican border. Recently, the House […]
(Reuters) – It looked like a textbook win-win deal when Australian high-speed ferry designer AMD Marine Consulting formed a joint venture in 1993 with the engineering arm of a state-owned Chinese shipbuilder. The joint venture partner, Guangzhou Marine Engineering Corporation, a subsidiary of the giant China State Shipbuilding Corporation, gained access to state-of-the-art technology in […]
By: Keith Campbell For European defence aeronautical company Airbus Military, the focus regarding South Africa is now on the light/medium aircraft category, for both transport and mari- time patrol. This was confirmed recently, in Toulouse, France, by Airbus Military CEO Domingo Ureña. He also affirmed that his company and South Africa had agreed to draw a line […]
Kobus Naval Design (KND) has received the contract to supply two 24 metre P249 patrol craft to the Nigerian Customs Service, which will use them to combat smuggling and piracy. On May 9 Nigeria’s Federal Executive Council (FEC) approved N3 billion for the procurement of two Customs Service patrol boats for the surveillance of Nigerian […]
REUTERS – It looked like a textbook win-win deal when Australian high-speed ferry designer AMD Marine Consulting formed a joint venture in 1993 with the engineering arm of a state-owned Chinese shipbuilder. The joint venture partner, Guangzhou Marine Engineering Corporation, a subsidiary of the giant China State Shipbuilding Corporation, gained access to state-of-the-art technology in […]
MISAWA, Japan – Patrol Squadron (VP) 1 completed a six-month deployment at Naval Air Facility Misawa May 28 and officially turned over with VP-8. The “Screaming Eagles” of VP-1, will now return to Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, located in Oak Harbor, Wash., and VP-8, which comes from Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Fla., will take […]