With a launch weight of 3037 tonnes, the INS Imphal, like the other ships under the project, has been designed indigenously by the Indian Navy’s Directorate of Naval Design, New Delhi. Each warship spans 163 metres in length and 17.4 metres at beam, and displaces 7300 tonnes. These ...
While many knowledgeable observers of the Royal Navy’s financial woes over the years would assume that much of this money will be spent to make more shallow the Navy’s spending black hole, particularly on nuclear propulsion and weapons systems, it appears that such may not be the case. The...
Two US Navy warships are sailing through international waters in the Taiwan Strait the first such operation since heightened tension with China over US House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s visit to Taiwan. The narrow Taiwan Strait has been a frequent source of military tension since the defeated Republic...
Learn how decorated U.S. Navy veteran Chad Brown was inspired to create Soul River Inc., an Oregon-based nonprofit that builds relationships between inner-city youth and veterans through impactful experiences in the great outdoors. READ MORE ...
RCGS Resolute was named after the Inuit town Resolute (on Cornwallis Island, Nunavut Canada), which in turn was named after "HMS Resolute" - a Merchant Navy vessel run by Canadian settlers in the region. The cruise ship has modern stabilizers and propulsion (providing great maneuverability and ...
subtropical gyre circulation33. To represent local upwelling, we used the NOAA PFEL upwelling index for the period 1998–2013 at 36°S 122°W. The index is calculated from the geostrophic wind stress which is derived from sea level pressure from the U.S. Navy Fleet Numerical Meteorology and ...
Navy, are able to avoid possible collisions and to recognize specific objects. However, even with typical mine detection tasks, there are still many problems needing to be solved. In future, marine robots should be able to infer the existence of unknown objects based on other known environmental...
The acquisition chief believes what happened in this case is there was “a large number interested, they started paring down, which started causing us some uncertainty about the competition, but we still had viable vendors in. And when you get out to actually delivering on those requirements, ...
The rapid deployment of American forces is facilitated by the Air Force's large fleet of trans- portation aircraft and aerial refueling tankers, the Navy's fleet of eleven active aircraft carriers, and Marine Expeditionary Units at sea in the Navy's Atlantic and Pa- cific fleets. Outside ...
The US navy’s long-standing ban on women serving in submarines comes to an end, with commanders saying that female officers would bolster the underwater fleet. Belgium passes Europe’s first ban on wearing burka in public. April 30, 2010 ...