Areas of Risk

  • RN and South China Sea

    Freedom of navigation patrolsare not about power projection, presence, or deterrence. Joint Freedom of Navigation Patrols in the South China Sea BY THE LOWY INTERPRETER [By Shashank Joshi and Euan Graham] […]

  • Boost for Mozambique

    The ten speedboats cost 40,000 euros. Portugal Donates Speedboats to Mozambican Navy Maputo — The Portuguese Defence Ministry on Monday donated ten speedboats to the Mozambican navy, under the military […]

  • India’s China concerns

    India concerned with Chinese push into IOR. India holds major exercise in Arabian Sea, keeps tabs on China’s naval forays Rajat Pandit| TNN  NEW DELHI: India continues to keep an eagle […]

  • Focused Op ends off Somalia

    Op kept watch around Socotra Gap hot spot. CTF 151 successfully completes Focused Counter Piracy Operation Hamad Counter Piracy (CP) Focused Operation (FO) HAMAD, run by Combined Task Force (CTF) […]

  • MMEA wants a new base

    An additional base in Pahang? Malaysia Coast Guard eyes additional base on country’s peninsular Ridzwan Rahmat The Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Agency (MMEA) is planning to establish an additional base on […]

  • Keeping it local

    Anti-piracy training and VBSS for Marine Police. Somali Maritime Police Hone Skills in Djibouti during Cutlass Express ’18 By Staff Sgt. Allyson L. Manners Combined Joint Task Force – Horn of […]

  • Destroyer alight

    Damage thought to be minimal. Russian Destroyer Catches Fire During Repairs On Friday, the anti-submarine destroyer Marshal Shaposhnikov caught fire while undergoing repairs at the Port of Vladivostok. The fire began in the […]

  • USN in Black Sea

    Russia not too happy. Two U.S. Guided-missile Destroyers Now Operating in the Black Sea By: Sam LaGrone Under cover of darkness, U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Ross (DDG-71) slipped through the Bosporus Strait […]

  • Pak-Saudi exercises conclude

    RIYADH: Exercise Naseem Al Bahr XI (NAB), between Pakistan Navy and Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF) concluded in Saudi Arabian waters off Al Jubail, KSA. Pak-Saudi joint naval exercises conclude […]

  • ASG attack thwarted

    Crew poured boiling water over attackers. Abu Sayyaf foiled in bid to hijack cargo ship By Manolo B. Jara MANILA: Members of the Daesh-linked Abu Sayyaf terror group were foiled […]