Tag: US Navy

Navy vessels from Australia and New Zealand will be exempt from a temporary ban on foreign ships entering the ports of the Solomon Islands, the Pacific island nation’s prime minister told parliament on Monday.

The US Navy will reward individuals for reporting information that leads to the detection of illegal maritime activity or seizure of illicit cargo in waters across the Middle East.

A US judge said the owner of an oil tanker must pay the US $44.6 million for its role in a 2017 collision between the tanker with a US Navy destroyer in southeast Asia that killed 10 sailors and injured dozens.

Kleos Space announced an agreement with the Naval Surface Warfare Center Division, Crane (NSWC Crane) for joint data experimentation for the improvement of maritime domain awareness.

Yemen's Houthi rebels launched at least one missile into the busy waters of Red Sea over the weekend, according to the U.S. Navy, thus increasing the risk of their fire striking one of the many commercial vessels using a waterway crucial to global shipping.

Navy vessel rescued two Iranian mariners Nov. 27 from a fishing vessel after it was adrift for eight days in the Gulf of Oman. 

Almost a dozen sailors have been injured after a U.S. nuclear attack submarine hit an unknown underwater object in the South China Sea.

The US Navy has demonstrated that small drones could take the place of manned platforms in delivering critical spare parts, most of which weigh less than a large bag of dog food, between ships at sea.

A US Naval ship provided emergency assistance to 15 crew members of a sinking general cargo ship in the Gulf of Aden, on 7 June. 

A US Coast Guard ship fired warning shots at Iranian boats that came near to US naval vessels in the Strait of Hormuz.