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Nov- 2020 -17 NovemberDrones - Latest News, Features & Expert Opinion
US Navy Begins Testing Logistics Drone Prototype
Engineers, testers, and military test pilots at the US Navy are evaluating a logistics drone designed to provide ship-to-ship and ship-to-shore cargo transport.
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Oct- 2020 -15 OctoberSea
US Destroyer Sails Through Taiwan Strait, Provoking China
A US warship sailed through the Taiwan Strait in what the American military described as a "routine" passage but enraging China, which claims sovereignty over the island and surrounding seas.
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Sep- 2020 -17 SeptemberAmericas
Eyeing China, Pentagon Plans Larger, ‘More Lethal’ Navy
Secretary of Defense Mark Esper announced an ambitious plan to expand the US Navy with unmanned and autonomous ships, submarines, and aircraft to confront the growing maritime challenge from China.
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Jul- 2020 -16 JulyExercises
US Navy Carries Out Second ‘Freedom of Navigation’ Op off Venezuela Coast
The US Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney challenged Venezuela's excessive maritime claim in the Caribbean Sea.
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13 JulyAmericas
Major Fire Breaks Out on USS Bonhomme Richard Navy Ship in California
An explosion on a United States Navy ship moored at a base in California set off a major fire on Sunday injuring 21 people.
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Jun- 2020 -19 JuneAsia Pacific
US Navy Confirms Demotion of Captain of Virus-Hit Carrier
The US Navy said Friday it would not reinstate the captain of a coronavirus-stricken aircraft carrier, saying he was in part to blame for the severity of the crisis on the warship. Admiral Michael Gilday, chief of naval operations, said Brett Crozier, who was fired as captain of the USS Theodore Roosevelt in April, was guilty of “questionable judgment” in handling an outbreak of COVID-19 aboard the nuclear-powered ship in March. Gilday likewise faulted Rear Admiral Stuart Baker, Crozier’s direct supervisor as the carrier’s strike group commander, for poor leadership. “It is my belief that both Admiral Baker and Captain Crozier fell well short of what we expect of those in command,” Gilday said. “In reviewing both Admiral Baker’s and Captain Crozier’s actions, they did not do enough, soon enough, to fulfill their primary obligation” to keep the ship’s 5,000 crew safe. After a two-month investigation, the Navy decided that Crozier would not return to the Roosevelt and not be eligible to captain another ship. Baker’s expected promotion meanwhile has been placed on hold, pending further review. The coronavirus outbreak onboard the Roosevelt was one of the first US crises of the pandemic, crippling the massive ship and forcing it …
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May- 2020 -21 MayAmericas
Texas Navy Base Locked Down in Shooting Incident
A U.S. Navy base in Texas went on lockdown Thursday after shots were fired by an unidentified person, but no injuries were reported, the Navy said. Security forces at the Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, where both U.S. and foreign military personnel undergo flight training, responded to an “active shooter” at about 6:15 am local time, said Fifi Kieschnick, a spokesperson for the base. “The shooter has been neutralized,” she said. One service member originally reported as injured “is okay,” she said, but the base remained on lockdown two hours after the incident. It came five months after a Saudi air force student with al-Qaeda ties opened fire at a U.S. Navy air base in Florida, killing three U.S. sailors and injuring eight others. On Monday, U.S. law enforcement officials said the Florida shooter had radicalized at least five years ago and planned to undertake an attack before he arrived in the United States for military training. Since then tougher rules have been set to prevent the thousands of foreign military trainees in the United States each year from accessing firearms, and to conduct more thorough background checks on them.
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Apr- 2020 -24 AprilAmericas
Coronavirus outbreak hits second US Navy ship at sea
A US Navy destroyer deployed off Mexico's western coast is the second American warship at sea to suffer an outbreak of coronavirus onboard
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23 AprilMiddle East
Iran’s IRGC head vows ‘decisive response’ to any US hostility in Gulf
The counter-threat came a day after President Donald Trump said he ordered the Navy to "shoot down" any hostile Iranian boat in the Gulf
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13 AprilAmericas
USS Theodore Roosevelt sailor dies from COVID-19 complications
A sailor from the USS Theodore Roosevelt, the US Navy aircraft carrier taken out of rotation due to a coronavirus outbreak onboard, has died
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