Month: October 2022
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NZDF and HMNZS Canterbury – Spears, machetes and guns in daring POW rescue – Bougainville.
05:00, Oct 30 2022 SUPPLIED Bougainvillian delegates arriving in Honiara, Solomon Islands, after the Burnham peace talks by RNZAF B727 before being transferred by HMNZS Canterbury back to Bougainville. Twenty-five years ago a small New Zealand Defence Force detachment landed on the dark sandy shores of south-western Bougainville, Papua New Guinea, to rescue five prisoners…
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RCN to commission second Harry DeWolf-class AOPS Margaret Brooke The vessel will be commissioned during a ceremony at HMC Dockyard in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
RCN’s lead AOPS HMCS Harry Dewolf at Irving Shipbuilding in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada. Credit: WayeMason/commons.wikimedia.org. The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) is set to commission its second Harry DeWolf-class Arctic and offshore patrol ship (AOPS) HMCS Margaret Brooke (AOPV 341). The vessel will be officially commissioned during a ceremony held at the HMC Dockyard in…
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RFA Mounts Bay and RFA Argus arrive in Montenegro The Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels are in the country as it marks five years since joining NATO.
28th October 2022 at 4:31pm Play Video RFA Mounts Bay and RFA Argus have arrived in Montenegro. The Royal Fleet Auxiliary vessels are in the country as it marks five years since joining NATO. The aim of the visit is to strengthen co-operation between the country and the UK. HMS Medway helps with humanitarian efforts…
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Boxer CRV project achieves IOC – The Australian Army’s next-generation combat vehicles have been certified for deployment.
LAND & AMPHIBIOUS | 17 OCTOBER 2022 By: Charbel Kadib T LAND 400 Phase 2 — a $5.2 billion Rheinmetall-led project involving the delivery of Boxer combat reconnaissance vehicles (CRVs) to the Australian Army — has officially achieved initial operational capability (IOC). This follows a test and evaluation process, which included deploying the Boxer during Exercise…
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The starboard side of Royal Navy light cruiser HMS Penelope (97) after a German aircraft attack at Malta, 1942.
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