.HMS Cattistock inside Plymouth Breakwater this afternoon.

She is due to receive the freedom of Poole at a ceremony on Saturday.

Via Kevin Kelway, BCAc

🇨🇦 Royal Canadian Navy led Combined Task Force (CTF) 150 concluded Focused Operation (FO) CRIMSON BARRACUDA, resulting in the seizure and disposal of 4,917 kg of narcotics in 7 days, Apr 14.

FO CRIMSON BARRACUDA began on 8 April 2024, with participation from the 🇬🇧 Royal Navy, 🇮🇳…

.HMS Scott sails from #Gibraltar this morning.

Via Michael J Sanchez

.RFA Cardigan Bay has sailed from Cyprus and has now arrived off the coast of Gaza to support the construction of an 1,800-foot pier, along with a floating RoRo facility situated about three miles off the coast.

Cardigan Bay is the command ship and will provide accommodation for…

.RFA Proteus outbound from Plymouth Sound this morning.

Via Kevin Kelway, BCAc

New article:

Royal Navy to equip 19 ships with trainable decoy launchers

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MoD RoRo MV Harland Point outbound from Devonport this afternoon.

Via Kevin Kelway, BCAc

🇳🇱HNLMS De Ruyter inbound to Devonport this afternoon while undergoing FOST Royal Navy serials.

Great to visit this ship last year. Welmer Veenstra She has been upgraded with improved radar for ballistic missile tracking and will be the first Dutch warship to test fire Tomahawk Land…

During a period working with our Japanese partners in and around Yokosuka Naval Base, SPEY took the opportunity whilst anchored in the Tokyo Bay Area to pay respects to the JMSDF personnel sadly lost at sea in a recent helicopter crash
#JMSDF

🇺🇸USS Dwight D. Eisenhower and USS Gravely transited the Suez Canal yesterday - back in the Mediterranean after 5 months deployed in the Persian Gulf and Red Sea.

news.usni.org/2024/04/26/car…

Action in the Red Sea might be an example of how you can win a battle but still lose the war.

By Tom Sharpe

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India ✅
Norway ✅
Scotland ✅
Somerset ✅

Over the last week, 845 NAS have operated concurrently around the world in 4 separate locations! Including gunnery, continental transits, maritime operations and essential training, our #MerlinMk4 aircraft can do it all.

OP KEYSTONE — A story of Royal Navy & RAF Cold War missions in the Barents Sea

thinpinstripedline.medium.com/op-keystone-th…

Fascinating article by Sir Humphrey

.RFA Tidesurge part of #SNMG1 alongside in Stavanger, 🇳🇴Norway today ahead of NATO ASW Exercise #DynamicMongoose

Viewed from the cruise ship AIDAperla.

h/t Ross

.HMS Spey sails from Yokosuka, Japan this morning (before returning shortly after).

Passing 🇯🇵JS Tone and 🇺🇸USNS Charles Drew.

Via タクト改二丙🇬🇧@かんサツ！ ⚓妖の類📷

Leach was 100% right then and was rapidly vindicated by subsequent events. Most of his arguments are just as valid today.

Lewis Page writing in 2006:
'Destroyers are the most technically difficult, most expensive possible way one can imagine of defending against air attack. The lesson of the Falklands was not that we need better destroyers; it was that destroyers don't work...'

Mr Page writing in…