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Interest in defence ⚔ especially Navies ⚓ㅣFocus on 🇫🇷🇪🇺🇰🇷🇯🇵 - Indo-Pac (more Pac than Indo)ㅣNaval reporter sometimesㅣNaval History loverㅣ RT≠ edrst
UK CSG arrives in Tokyo Bay to port call in Yokozuka.
RN Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless with Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate Roald Amundsen side by side. Aicraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales just arrived as well.🇬🇧🇸🇯🇯🇵
📸Credit: @yoshihiro-inaba.bsky.social published on X
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RN Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless with Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate Roald Amundsen side by side. Aicraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales just arrived as well.🇬🇧🇸🇯🇯🇵
📸Credit: @yoshihiro-inaba.bsky.social published on X
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August 12, 2025 at 2:42 AM
UK CSG arrives in Tokyo Bay to port call in Yokozuka.
RN Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless with Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate Roald Amundsen side by side. Aicraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales just arrived as well.🇬🇧🇸🇯🇯🇵
📸Credit: @yoshihiro-inaba.bsky.social published on X
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RN Type 45 destroyer HMS Dauntless with Norwegian Fridtjof Nansen-class frigate Roald Amundsen side by side. Aicraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales just arrived as well.🇬🇧🇸🇯🇯🇵
📸Credit: @yoshihiro-inaba.bsky.social published on X
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Full video released by PCG.
I had to compress it to publish it here, but remains unedited.
I had to compress it to publish it here, but remains unedited.
August 11, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Full video released by PCG.
I had to compress it to publish it here, but remains unedited.
I had to compress it to publish it here, but remains unedited.
Pictures of the damages
📸PCG
📸PCG
August 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Pictures of the damages
📸PCG
📸PCG
CCG and PLAN vessels colliding while trying to deny access of an area to Philippine Coast Guard patrol ships.
THE CCG vessel got severely damaged.
📽️Philippines Coast Guard
THE CCG vessel got severely damaged.
📽️Philippines Coast Guard
August 11, 2025 at 9:15 AM
CCG and PLAN vessels colliding while trying to deny access of an area to Philippine Coast Guard patrol ships.
THE CCG vessel got severely damaged.
📽️Philippines Coast Guard
THE CCG vessel got severely damaged.
📽️Philippines Coast Guard
Taking advantage of a stop in Sweden, French Navy unofficially tested the CB90. It seems to fit nicely within Mistral-class LHD's hangar next to landing crafts by taking one EDAS off.
Mistral class hangar options:
1xEDAR (Large landing craft) + 2 EDAS (LC) or 2xEDAR or 4xEDAS
📸via @Harry_Boone on X
Mistral class hangar options:
1xEDAR (Large landing craft) + 2 EDAS (LC) or 2xEDAR or 4xEDAS
📸via @Harry_Boone on X
July 3, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Taking advantage of a stop in Sweden, French Navy unofficially tested the CB90. It seems to fit nicely within Mistral-class LHD's hangar next to landing crafts by taking one EDAS off.
Mistral class hangar options:
1xEDAR (Large landing craft) + 2 EDAS (LC) or 2xEDAR or 4xEDAS
📸via @Harry_Boone on X
Mistral class hangar options:
1xEDAR (Large landing craft) + 2 EDAS (LC) or 2xEDAR or 4xEDAS
📸via @Harry_Boone on X
HHI has launched the first out of six OPV 'BRP Rajah Sulayman' (PS20) for the Philippines Navy.
📸Philippines Navy
📸Philippines Navy
June 12, 2025 at 4:55 PM
HHI has launched the first out of six OPV 'BRP Rajah Sulayman' (PS20) for the Philippines Navy.
📸Philippines Navy
📸Philippines Navy
POLARIS 25 - paper to come out soon
📸 Credit: myself
📸 Credit: myself
June 12, 2025 at 4:47 PM
POLARIS 25 - paper to come out soon
📸 Credit: myself
📸 Credit: myself
1/4 @IISS_org
Shangri-La Dialogue 2025
"Would France assist in the building a nuclear-powered submarine in South Korea if the new government would request it ?"
Shangri-La Dialogue 2025
"Would France assist in the building a nuclear-powered submarine in South Korea if the new government would request it ?"
May 30, 2025 at 1:16 PM
1/4 @IISS_org
Shangri-La Dialogue 2025
"Would France assist in the building a nuclear-powered submarine in South Korea if the new government would request it ?"
Shangri-La Dialogue 2025
"Would France assist in the building a nuclear-powered submarine in South Korea if the new government would request it ?"
MHI launches new oceanographic ship "Akashi" for the JMoD. Ordered in 2022, the ship will be commissioned later this year. 🇯🇵⚓️
📸MHI
📸MHI
May 29, 2025 at 7:07 AM
MHI launches new oceanographic ship "Akashi" for the JMoD. Ordered in 2022, the ship will be commissioned later this year. 🇯🇵⚓️
📸MHI
📸MHI
The second concept design - Ghost Commander II - seems a bit more realistic purely in terms of naval architecture, of design and of possibilities of employment. Not only a drone carrier, the vessel is seen as a multi-platform carrier (helicopters and UAVs).
May 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
The second concept design - Ghost Commander II - seems a bit more realistic purely in terms of naval architecture, of design and of possibilities of employment. Not only a drone carrier, the vessel is seen as a multi-platform carrier (helicopters and UAVs).
If everybody got excited 2 years ago by Hanwha showcasing a futuristic carrier design worthy of Marvel movies dubbed Ghost Commander, the 2nd picture showing Ghost Commander II shows how quickly and drastically a concept can change.
Random comments👇
Random comments👇
May 28, 2025 at 8:08 PM
If everybody got excited 2 years ago by Hanwha showcasing a futuristic carrier design worthy of Marvel movies dubbed Ghost Commander, the 2nd picture showing Ghost Commander II shows how quickly and drastically a concept can change.
Random comments👇
Random comments👇
UK's first Type 31 frigate HMS Venturer rolled out
📸Royal Navy picture.
📸Royal Navy picture.
May 27, 2025 at 5:08 PM
UK's first Type 31 frigate HMS Venturer rolled out
📸Royal Navy picture.
📸Royal Navy picture.
1- MHI collaborative combat aircraft concept
2- MALE UAV concept by Subaru
3- Railgun by GA (program suspended in the US)
4- Barzan M23 C-Series midget submarine (used by 🇮🇹)
2- MALE UAV concept by Subaru
3- Railgun by GA (program suspended in the US)
4- Barzan M23 C-Series midget submarine (used by 🇮🇹)
May 27, 2025 at 6:51 AM
1- MHI collaborative combat aircraft concept
2- MALE UAV concept by Subaru
3- Railgun by GA (program suspended in the US)
4- Barzan M23 C-Series midget submarine (used by 🇮🇹)
2- MALE UAV concept by Subaru
3- Railgun by GA (program suspended in the US)
4- Barzan M23 C-Series midget submarine (used by 🇮🇹)
1-Railgun
2-Type 12 SSM
3-GCAP
4-Landing craft by JMU&BMT
2-Type 12 SSM
3-GCAP
4-Landing craft by JMU&BMT
May 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
1-Railgun
2-Type 12 SSM
3-GCAP
4-Landing craft by JMU&BMT
2-Type 12 SSM
3-GCAP
4-Landing craft by JMU&BMT
Dump DSEI 2025 - Articles to come soon
1- New FFM by MHI
2-Naval DEW concept by Kawasaki
3- 40m modular USV
4- ASEV by Lockheed Martin
1- New FFM by MHI
2-Naval DEW concept by Kawasaki
3- 40m modular USV
4- ASEV by Lockheed Martin
May 27, 2025 at 6:49 AM
Dump DSEI 2025 - Articles to come soon
1- New FFM by MHI
2-Naval DEW concept by Kawasaki
3- 40m modular USV
4- ASEV by Lockheed Martin
1- New FFM by MHI
2-Naval DEW concept by Kawasaki
3- 40m modular USV
4- ASEV by Lockheed Martin
French Navy sailors aboard a Mistral-class LHD experiment the use of FPV UAV against training USVs. Objective: "to reinforce the self-defence capabilities of our vessels" 🇫🇷⚓️
🎥Credit: @marinenationale.bsky.social
🎥Credit: @marinenationale.bsky.social
May 16, 2025 at 3:43 AM
French Navy sailors aboard a Mistral-class LHD experiment the use of FPV UAV against training USVs. Objective: "to reinforce the self-defence capabilities of our vessels" 🇫🇷⚓️
🎥Credit: @marinenationale.bsky.social
🎥Credit: @marinenationale.bsky.social
French Navy's major exercise POLARIS 25 begins (5/12 - 6/15) engaging assets and partners' ones in a downgraded environment to conduct from hybrid warfare to amphibious action. Space, cyber, air and land domains will be involved.
🇨🇵🇩🇪🇧🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹🇳🇱🇵🇹🇺🇸🇬🇧
🎥@marinenationale.bsky.social
🇨🇵🇩🇪🇧🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹🇳🇱🇵🇹🇺🇸🇬🇧
🎥@marinenationale.bsky.social
May 12, 2025 at 2:20 AM
French Navy's major exercise POLARIS 25 begins (5/12 - 6/15) engaging assets and partners' ones in a downgraded environment to conduct from hybrid warfare to amphibious action. Space, cyber, air and land domains will be involved.
🇨🇵🇩🇪🇧🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹🇳🇱🇵🇹🇺🇸🇬🇧
🎥@marinenationale.bsky.social
🇨🇵🇩🇪🇧🇷🇪🇸🇮🇹🇳🇱🇵🇹🇺🇸🇬🇧
🎥@marinenationale.bsky.social
French FREMM conducted fire-on-land drills with her main gun during Formidable Shield 25.
The past couple years, the French Navy carried out this type of firing several times marking definitely a shift in exercises' objectives
📸@PREMAR_CECLANT
The past couple years, the French Navy carried out this type of firing several times marking definitely a shift in exercises' objectives
📸@PREMAR_CECLANT
May 12, 2025 at 1:49 AM
French FREMM conducted fire-on-land drills with her main gun during Formidable Shield 25.
The past couple years, the French Navy carried out this type of firing several times marking definitely a shift in exercises' objectives
📸@PREMAR_CECLANT
The past couple years, the French Navy carried out this type of firing several times marking definitely a shift in exercises' objectives
📸@PREMAR_CECLANT
SSN Astute I believe is missing in this infography.
Just a point of observation, they're few escort UK surface combatants within the CSG, a lack completed thank to partners' vessels (it has also advantages in terms of working closer together).
Just a point of observation, they're few escort UK surface combatants within the CSG, a lack completed thank to partners' vessels (it has also advantages in terms of working closer together).
April 25, 2025 at 9:36 AM
SSN Astute I believe is missing in this infography.
Just a point of observation, they're few escort UK surface combatants within the CSG, a lack completed thank to partners' vessels (it has also advantages in terms of working closer together).
Just a point of observation, they're few escort UK surface combatants within the CSG, a lack completed thank to partners' vessels (it has also advantages in terms of working closer together).
JMU has started the construction of 4 OPVs for the @JMSDF_PAO. All 4 will be delivered by March 2027. 🇯🇵⚓️
Length: 95m
Disp.: 1920t
Speed: 20kts
Weapon: 30mm main gun
mod.go.jp/rdb/s-kanto/pr
Length: 95m
Disp.: 1920t
Speed: 20kts
Weapon: 30mm main gun
mod.go.jp/rdb/s-kanto/pr
April 12, 2025 at 9:19 PM
JMU has started the construction of 4 OPVs for the @JMSDF_PAO. All 4 will be delivered by March 2027. 🇯🇵⚓️
Length: 95m
Disp.: 1920t
Speed: 20kts
Weapon: 30mm main gun
mod.go.jp/rdb/s-kanto/pr
Length: 95m
Disp.: 1920t
Speed: 20kts
Weapon: 30mm main gun
mod.go.jp/rdb/s-kanto/pr
I add more pictures that surfaced a few hours ago on the other platform here
March 14, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I add more pictures that surfaced a few hours ago on the other platform here
Once in the Arctic, the A400M carried out a new series of tests to check that the infrastructure was suitable for regular operations.
It was an opportunity for the 25th air engineer rgt specialized in airborne infrastructure to adapt and train in very cold conditions.
It was an opportunity for the 25th air engineer rgt specialized in airborne infrastructure to adapt and train in very cold conditions.
March 13, 2025 at 1:45 PM
Once in the Arctic, the A400M carried out a new series of tests to check that the infrastructure was suitable for regular operations.
It was an opportunity for the 25th air engineer rgt specialized in airborne infrastructure to adapt and train in very cold conditions.
It was an opportunity for the 25th air engineer rgt specialized in airborne infrastructure to adapt and train in very cold conditions.
Source via WeChat Channels@观诲长郎
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March 13, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Source via WeChat Channels@观诲长郎
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Dutch frigate Sr. Ms. De Ruyter test-fired a Tomahawk missile yesterday off the coast of Norfolk. A first for the Royal Netherlands Navy. 🇳🇱⚓️🚀
March 12, 2025 at 9:53 AM
Dutch frigate Sr. Ms. De Ruyter test-fired a Tomahawk missile yesterday off the coast of Norfolk. A first for the Royal Netherlands Navy. 🇳🇱⚓️🚀