Sea-Shield 2018

06/11/2018
Sea Shield is an annual multinational exercise taking place in the Black Sea and based on a notional crisis response scenario.  The exercise is designed to test, conduct, analyze and evaluate Anti-Submarine Warfare activities through the employment of Anti-Submarine Underwater Warfare, Anti-Air Warfare and Maritime Counter Mining.  This is to…

Exercise Dynamic Mongoose 2017

07/23/2017
2017-07-23  NATO-led exercise Dynamic Mongoose took place in the North Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Iceland. Participants were training anti-submarine warfare (ASW) interoperability and anti-surface capabilities. Naval forces from Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Iceland, the Netherlands, Norway, Poland, the United Kingdom and the United States participated with ships and…

Maritime Support to NATO Quick Reaction Support Forces

10/30/2016
10/31/2016: Ships, submarines and aircraft all take part in large-scale exercises off the west coast of Scotland, performing anti-submarine warfare, mine counter-measures, maritime security, live fire and close air support. AT SEA 10/20/2016 Natochannel According to a Royal Navy press release dated October 7, 2016: Scotland will host elements of a…

USS Texas (SSN 775)

09/21/2015
09/21/2015: USS Texas (SSN 775) The video shows the submarine underway. Credit:Commander Submarine Forces Pacific:7/17/15 Commissioned Sept. 9, 2006, Texas was the second Virginia-class attack submarine constructed and the first submarine to be named after the Lone Star State. Two battleships and a cruiser were previously named USS Texas, and…

Bush and Theodore Roosevelt Ammo Transfer

04/29/2015
04/29/2015: MH-60S Sea Hawk helicopters are used to transfer ordnance off the flight deck of the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) to USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) while underway in the Atlantic Ocean. Theodore Roosevelt and George H.W. Bush are seen conducting training exercises in the…