The Royal Navy has successfully used its smallest warships as a launchpad for autonomous mine hunting operations for the first time. Seven P2000 patrol vessels of the Coastal Forces Squadron deployed on NATO’s annual Baltic exercise – known as Baltops 24 – during which 50 ships, dozens of aircraft and 9,000 ...
Royal Navy Type 23 frigate HMS Kent has joined 19 nations on the US-led Baltic Operations (BALTOPS) exercise. HMS Kent and minehunter HMS Ramsey will sail alongside 26 other vessels and 29 aircraft as 3,000 personnel from 17 NATO nations and two NATO partner nations strengthen their combined maritime capabilities and ...
HMS Ramsay has returned to Clyde after taking part in a NATO mission hunting mines in the Baltic sea. The Sandown-class minehunter has returned after deployment on a NATO mission in the Baltic and the North Sea conducting mine security. HMS Ramsay was working with the Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group ...
The US Navy has declared Initial Operation Capability for its 2nd fleet ahead of its first European deployment. U.S. 2nd Fleet declared the command has achieved initial operation capability (IOC) May 29, less than one year after being established by senior military leaders. Vice Adm. Andrew “Woody” Lewis, commander, U.S. ...