The PLA Navy committed a rather saucy piece of theft against the US Navy in the South China Sea this week. According to the Pentagon, the USNS Bowditch was in the process of recovering an underwater drone when a PLAN vessel, the Nanjiu 510, lowered a boat and scooped up the device, reportedly a “Slocum…
A Chinese navy warship seized an underwater drone deployed by an American oceanographic vessel in international waters. The mission of the survey ship, USS Bowditch, had been sampling and data collection of surface, midwater and ocean floor measurements. The Bowditch was sailing about 100 miles off the port at Subic Bay when the incident happened….
The world’s mightiest navy is at risk of being sunk — not by a superior enemy, but by its own inability to acquire ships that work at a price that even the richest military on the planet can afford. The U.S. Navy today has only 272 deployable warships — a decline of more than 50 percent in just the…
Four-thousand US sailors and marines from the Wasp Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) have arrived in the Mediterranean Sea after transiting the Suez Canal, according to a release from the US navy. The group, which is comprised of an amphibious assault ship, the USS Wasp (LHD 1), and an amphibious dock landing ship, the USS Whidbey…
This is the newst update of the ‘U.S. Carrier Strike Groups Locations Map’ exclusive series showing the approximate locations of U.S. Carrier Strike Groups on a weekly basis. SouthFront: Analysis & Intelligence tracks locations of U.S. aircraft carriers using the available open-source information. No classified information was used in production of the map. Carrier strike…
A £1bn Royal Navy warship had to be towed back into port after it developed “technical issues” after just two days at sea. HMS Duncan was tugged into Plymouth under escort on Wednesday, 48 hours after it set sail from a naval base in the town. Members of the public observing from the shore said the…
