Royal New Zealand Navy – The Royal New Zealand Navy hopes to construct 3 new vessels: a multirole vessel capable of carrying troops and equipment, and two offshore patrol vessels. These 3 vessels will be built instead of a third new frigate. ONENews: Local benefit to new navy contracts Canadian Navy – Sabotage against Canadian [...]

Royal Navy – A little gunboat diplomacy between the Royal Navy and the Spanish Coast Guard off Gibraltar. Daily Telegraph: Navy in Gibraltar gunboat stand-off Indian Navy – How the Indian Navy may obtain a nuclear strike capability. Pakistan News Service: ndian Navy’s club missiles being N-tipped US Navy – More details on the USS [...]

US Navy – The USS Greeneville has collided with the USS Ogden in the Arabian Sea. Reuters: US warship, submarine, collide off Oman US Navy – The crew of the USS John F. Kennedy are working hard to get ready to deploy. Virginian Pilot: Fixing the Kennedy Canadian Coast Guard – Canadians must do more [...]

US Navy – Over the Arabian Sea, on patrol with US Navy P-3C Orions, looking for Al-Qaida members trying to flee Afghanistan by ship. Associated Press: U.S. Planes Scour Sea for Al-Qaida US Marines – What the Taliban’s caves looked like to the US Marines searching them. Associated Press: Marines Reveal Items From Al-Qaida US [...]

US Coast Guard – There are felt to be numerous terrorist targetson the Great Lakes, including locks, ports, and nuclear power plants. Toronto Globe and Mail: Terrorist targets exist on Great Lakes, says U.S. official Russian Navy – The disassembly of the Kursk continues. Associated Press: Another seaman pulled from wrecked Russian submarine US Navy [...]

Chinese Air Force – The Chinese are outfitting their Su-30 attack aircraft with antiship cruise missiles, thus giving their air force a more potent antiship strike capability. Washington Times: Inside the Ring US Merchant Marine – The Bush administration has admitted there is a huge shortage of US Merchant Marine sailors to man the Ready [...]

Russian Navy – The latest review of what is known about the Kursk incident, concluding that the explosion that sunk her came from within due to the volitility of the liquid hydrogen peroxide fuel used in its torpedoes. It asks: can this happen again? BBC: Analysis: Kursk cover-up Canadian Navy – At sea aboard HMCS [...]

US Navy – The USS Peleliu amphibious ready group has been replaced by the USS Bon Homme Richard amphibious ready group in the Arabian Sea. San Diego Union Tribune: Peleliu heading home, BonHomme Richard on station US Marines – The US Marines say the recent spate of helicopter crashes is not related to the chronic [...]

Canadian Navy – Plans are being worked out to keep a Canadian Navy presence in the Arabian Sea until 2003. Victoria Times Colonist: HMCS Ottawa ships out Feb. 17 Halifax Herald: Ships will spend year in Mideast Background – Ports – More on why US ports make tempting terrorist targets. Washington Times: Seaports seen as [...]

Chinese Navy – China has ordered two additional Russian Sovremenny destroyers to augment the pair it deployed in late 2000. Jane’s: China buys two more Project 956EM ships National Post: China continues naval expansion US Navy – The maintainence woes aboard the USS John F. Kennedy are longstanding, and are the result of too little [...]

2001 World Naval Operational News Highlights The biggest story this year was the huge role that US and allied navies have played in the war on terrorism. Several recurring themes were identified throughout this year’s naval news stories, many of which persist from last year: The continuing enforcement of economic sanctions and no-fly zones against [...]

US Marines – The US Marines have turned over their base at Kandahar airport to the 101st Airborne Division. Washington Post: Marines Vacate Kandahar Airport US Navy – The Carl Vinson battlegroup is returning home. San Diego Union Tribune: Air squadron, Vinson return from Afghanistan Contra Costa Times: Grateful port greets carrier Virginian Pilot: Mission [...]

US Navy – A US Navy EP-3 intelligence aircraft was again intercepted at close range by Chinese Air Force aircraft. Washingtion Times: Inside the Ring US Navy – The US Navy has been criticized for doing little to transform itself in the last year, in comparison to the US Army and US Air Force. Virginian [...]

Canadian Navy – The Canadian Navy is willing to keep a contingent in the Arabian Sea indefinitely. Halifax Herald: Navy ships set to patrol area indefinitely US Navy – Additional repairs to the USS John F Kennedy that are needed to bring her up to operational conditions may lengthen the stay of the USS Theodore [...]

Canadian Navy – Life aboard the Canadian Navy supply ship HMCS Preserver in the Arabian Sea. Canadian Press: Canadian sailors aboard Navy supply ship proud, homesick and bored US Navy – Aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the Chief of Naval Operations stated that more money is needed to allow the Navy to continue to do [...]

US Marines – Life at Kandahar airport appears to not be very safe for US Marines – there are suspicions of tunnel complexes running through the airport and Marines fear they will soon come under attack. Associated Press: Suspected Taliban taunt U.S. Marines: `They go back and forth, and we can’t do anything’ US Marines [...]

US Navy – US sailors receive a pay raise in an attempt to retain more of them in service. Virginian Pilot: Leaders hope pay raise keeps more in uniform Virginian Pilot: Among sailors, pay raise lifts many boats — and spirits US Navy – The US Navy is considering converting a cruise ship which is [...]

US Navy – How garbage is disposed of from a US Navy aircraft carrier. Associated Press: As aircraft carrier launches planes, U.S. sailors take out the garbage Palestinian Navy – The Palestinian Authority’s Navy has no useable ships left. Agence France-Presse: Palestinian Navy has no working boats after Israeli raid US Navy – The varied [...]

Israeli Navy – The Israeli Navy has attacked a Palestinian Navy base in Gaza, destroying 2 patrol boats. BBC: Israeli navy attacks Gaza port US Navy – More details have emerged about the plot to attack US warships in Singapore. Associated Press: Scheme against Navy ships foiled in Singapore Royal Navy – It has been [...]

US Navy – The USS John F. Kennedy will do her pre-deployment live fire training off of North Carolina and Virginia, and not off Vieques. Washington Times: