JUNEAU — The U.S. Coast Guard located a Russian Federation Vishnya-class naval vessel Monday south of the Aleutian Islands. While patrolling the Aleutian Islands, the crew of U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Alex Haley (WMEC 39) detected the vessel 30 nautical miles southeast of Amukta Pass. The Russian vessel was transiting in international waters but inside […]
Iranian state media reported Wednesday the largest warship in the country’s navy caught fire and sank in the Gulf of Oman. The reports said the support ship Kharg went down near the port of Jask, and that all of the crew members on board were safely evacuated. There was no word on how the fire started. The Kharg was one of Iran’s few […]
On December 15th, a warship with the Chinese Navy seized a U.S. naval underwater drone from international waters northwest of Subic Bay in the South China Sea, it was announced by Washington. The U.S. has formal demarche, including a demand that the unmanned vehicle, which was part of an unclassified program measuring water temperature and salinity levels, […]
BEIJING/HONG KONG (Reuters) – China scrambled fighter jets on Tuesday as a U.S. navy ship sailed close to a disputed reef in the South China Sea, a patrol China denounced as an illegal threat to peace which only went to show its defense installations in the area were necessary. Guided missile destroyer the USS William […]