Commonwealth navies links
March 12th, 2010 | Coast Guard Foreign navies Life at Sea Royal Navy Ships | Posted by Phil Ewing
Much as Commonwealth nations often cooperate in missions at sea -- as these Royal Navy, Royal Australian Navy and U.S. Navy warships (including the classic Spruance-class destroyer Fletcher, center) operated together in 2002 -- so too do today's links work together to create a clearer understanding of the news // Navy
Tea-drinkin’, “cheers”-sayin’, Bovril-eatin’, short pants-wearin’, pirate-fightin’, boomerang throwin’ links, helping you say ‘g’day’ to naval developments around the world:
- The Royal Navy doesn’t need carriers after all, a former Defence Staff chief said this week, and instead it should build more small ships to grow its fleet.
- England’s Prince Philip, Duke of Edinborough — Queen Elizabeth II’s arm candy — met an instructor of Royal Navy sea cadets this week and asked her if she worked in a strip club. Continued The Daily Mail: “The 88-year-old royal then appeared to think better of the suggestion in the current weather and joked that such an occupation would be ‘too cold.’
- The Australian navy is reeling from a new round of revelations in a sex scandal that Scoop Deck first told you about all the way back in July.
- Up in Marinette, Wisconsin, the littoral combat ship Fort Worth is about 30 percent complete, says shipbuilder Lockheed Martin.
- Russian President Dimitri Medvedev acknowledged problems in his country’s armed forces, which comprises mostly conscripts, although one analyst said the Russian navy could become an all-volunteer force.
- Costs for the Coast Guard’s Deepwater modernization program have risen again, our colleague Susan Schept reports.