Satellite images show aircraft carrier being towed to the Strait of Hormuz Suggests Iran is preparing for a similar mock-sinking it conducted in 2015 Comes after a U.S. F-15 fighter jet approached Iranian passenger flight over Syria By AP PUBLISHED: 14:07 AEST, 27 July 2020 | UPDATED: 04:35 AEST, 28 July 2020 Iran has moved a mock 650ft US aircraft carrierContinue reading “Iran moves a mock 650ft US aircraft carrier into the Strait of Hormuz that it ‘plans to sink’ in navy drills – days after American F-15 buzzed an Iranian airliner”
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NZ government orders 43 big bush-bashing defence vehicles
BY MATTHEW HANSEN • 27/07/2020SEARCH DRIVEN FOR VEHICLES FOR SALE Photos / supplied What’s the ultimate off-roader? Is it the Jeep Gladiator kicking around in the DRIVEN park this week? Maybe it’s the Ford Ranger Raptor — a fast-paced gravel maestro. Or, perhaps it’s the enormous Bushmaster Protected Mobility armoured vehicle? Forty threeContinue reading “NZ government orders 43 big bush-bashing defence vehicles”
US presses Australia to step up naval exercises in South China Sea
Push comes as foreign and defence ministers to meet US counterparts for talks on expanding military cooperation in waterway amid rising tensions with China Australian and US ships conduct manoeuvres in the South China Sea, in an image released in April 2020. Photograph: Australian Department of Defence/Reuters Paul Karp @Paul_Karp Published onMon 27 Jul 2020 18.30Continue reading “US presses Australia to step up naval exercises in South China Sea”
Russia flexes ‘growing power’ of its Navy with huge parade involving 200 warships in St Petersburg as Vladimir Putin promises 40 new vessels equipped with hypersonic weapons
Traditionally celebrated on the last Sunday of July, Navy Day is a national holiday in the Russian Federation Vladimir Putin and Russia’s Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu were photographed on board a Raptor boat Around 200 warships are involved in the annual event which is held near the port city of St Petersburg By AMELIA WYNNE FORContinue reading “Russia flexes ‘growing power’ of its Navy with huge parade involving 200 warships in St Petersburg as Vladimir Putin promises 40 new vessels equipped with hypersonic weapons”
HMS Blake was a light cruiser of the Tiger class of the British Royal Navy, the last of the (traditional) Royal Navy gun-armed cruisers in the 20th century. She was named after Robert Blake, a 17th-century admiral who was the “Father of the Royal Navy”.
HMS Blake (C99) HMS Blake was a light cruiser of the Tiger class of the British Royal Navy, the last of the (traditional) Royal Navy gun-armed cruisers in the 20th century. She was named after Robert Blake, a 17th-century admiral who was the “Father of the Royal Navy”. She was ordered in 1942 as oneContinue reading “HMS Blake was a light cruiser of the Tiger class of the British Royal Navy, the last of the (traditional) Royal Navy gun-armed cruisers in the 20th century. She was named after Robert Blake, a 17th-century admiral who was the “Father of the Royal Navy”.”
