Dzirhan Mahadzir - September 15, 2026 2:09 PM HMAS Perth (left) conducts a replenishment at sea with United States Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72), while attached to Carrier Strike Group 3 (CSG-3) in the South China Sea, posted Sept. 11, 2026. Australian Defense Forces photo USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) recently operated with Royal Australian Navy frigates in the South China Sea, the Australian Department of Defense announced Tuesday.

16/09/2026 - by Adrian Hill - 11 min read Written by Adrian Hill We are living through the most dangerous geopolitical era since the end of the Cold War, and the Royal Navy that must protect us is stretched to breaking point. Former British diplomat Adrian Hill shows how governments of both parties hollowed out the fleet in peacetime, and what it will now take to rectify the situation.

15th September 2026 at 11:21am HMS Queen Elizabeth conducts first RAS for two years One of the UK's two aircraft carriers has carried out her first replenishment at sea (RAS) for the first time in two years. RFA Tidespring, a Tide-class tanker, provided HMS Queen Elizabeth with fuel, while the aircraft carrier's bridge and seamanship teams acquired more skills on the vessel.

Flying one of the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) F-35A Lightning II aircraft around the country was a pilot who started his career in the Royal New Zealand Air Force’s (RNZAF) No. 75 Squadron, cutting his teeth on the A-4 Skyhawks. 15 September, 2026 “It’s been a bit of a homecoming,” Squadron Leader Jason “Easty” Easthope said. The RAAF fast jet pilot from Rotorua was at RNZAF Base Ohakea last week during a deployment for Exercise Agile Tasman, working alongside RNZAF and New Zealand Army personnel.

BySeaWaves Magazine - Sep 11, 2026 Royal Danish Navy Photos In August and September, Exercise Northern Viking 26 brought together forces from the United States, Denmark, Canada, Norway, France, Belgium, Poland and the host nation Iceland to train the defense of the North Atlantic Ocean and the strategically crucial GIUK corridor between Greenland, Iceland and the United Kingdom. During the exercise, the Navy’s mine clearance capability, Mine Counter Measures (MCM) Denmark, again worked closely with the Canadian Navy.

BySeaWaves Magazin -Sep 11, 2026 Official photo SLNS Sindurala departed from Sri Lanka today (11 September 2026) to take part in the bilateral naval exercise SLINEX – 2026 between the Sri Lanka Navy and the Indian Navy. The bilateral naval exercise is conducted annually with the aim of further strengthening cooperation, interoperability and professional exchange between the Indian Navy and Sri Lanka Navy.

BySeaWaves Magazine - Sep 11, 2026 The Italian Naval Vessel ‘ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi’ arrived in Sri Lanka today, 9 September 2026, on a replenishment visit. The Sri Lanka Navy welcomed the visiting ship in accordance with naval traditions at the port of Colombo. ‘ITS Giuseppe Garibaldi’ is a 180m long Landing Helicopter Aircraft Vessel commanded by Captain Marco GUERRIERO.

Anzac-class frigate HMNZS Te Mana and long range sustainment vessel HMNZS Aotearoa have docked in Japan at Yokosuka Naval Base. We have a long history with Yokosuka Naval Base including during The Korean War where our Navy often used it to resupply and repair. Hosted by 防衛省　海上自衛隊　(Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force) guided-missile destroyer JS Maya, our Task Group is resupplying and conducting maintenance to prepare for further operations

British armored cruiser HMS Shannon as built with short funnels HMS Shannon was a Minotaur-class armoured cruiser built for the Royal Navy in the mid-1900s. Before the First World War, she served with the Home Fleet, generally as the flagship of a cruiser squadron. The ship remained with the Grand Fleet, as the Home Fleet was renamed when the war began, for the entire war, but only participated in a single battle, the Battle of Jutland in May 1916. Shannon spent most of the war patrolling the North Sea for German warships and commerce raiders. She was paid off in 1919 and sold for scrap in 1922.

A flotilla leader, she saw service in the Home Fleet before World War II and the ship made several deployments to Spanish waters during the Spanish Civil War, enforcing the arms blockade imposed by Britain and France on both sides of the conflict. Kempenfelt was transferred to the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) in 1939 and renamed HMCS Assiniboine. During World War II, she served as a convoy escort in the battle of the Atlantic, sinking one German submarine by ramming, on anti-submarine patrols during the invasion of Normandy, and was employed as a troop transport after VE Day for returning Canadian servicemen, before being decommissioned in mid-1945.

HMS Ark Royal (R09) was an Audacious-class aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and, when she was decommissioned in 1978, was the Royal Navy's last remaining conventional catapult and arrested-landing aircraft carrier. She was the Royal Navy's first aircraft carrier to be equipped with an angled flight deck.  

HMS Illustrious was a light aircraft carrier of the Royal Navy and the second of three Invincible-class ships constructed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. She was the fifth warship and second aircraft carrier to bear the name Illustrious, and was affectionately known to her crew as "Lusty". In 1982, the conflict in the Falklands necessitated that Illustrious be completed and rushed south to join her sister ship HMS Invincible and the veteran carrier HMS Hermes.

David Sivills-McCann - 11th September 2026 at 11:08am There have been 500,000 deaths as part of the 1.5 million casualties sustained since the full-scale invasion (Picture: Russian MOD) The total number of casualties sustained by Russia since the full-scale invasion of Ukraine has now reached 1.5 million. The Chief of the Defence Staff said it is a "grim milestone" and the figure shows the cost of President Putin’s "flawed decision" on the country and its people.

SflyProxyVersion 1; USS Mississippi, hull number BB-41, the second of three members of the New Mexico class of battleship, was the third ship of the United States Navy named in honor of the 20th state. The ship was built at the Newport News Shipbuilding Company of Newport News, Virginia, from her keel laying in April 1915, her…

BySeaWaves Magazine - Sep 7, 2026 The air defense and command frigate De Ruyter and the minehunter Willemstad are returning to the Netherlands. At the same time, the frigate Evertsen will depart for the Middle East shortly. This rotation ensures operational readiness and keeps options open for a later deployment in the Strait of Hormuz. Defense Minister Dilan Yeşilgöz-Zegerius announced this today in a letter to the House of Representatives.

Posted on : 2026-09-11 17:34 KST Modified on : 2026-09-11 17:34 KST The USS Decatur (DDG-73) was unveiled at Naval Station Pearl Harbor in Hawaii on Sept. 9, 2026. (Kim Won-chul/Hankyoreh) A guided-missile destroyer playing a pivotal role in US Navy operations such as defense against air and missile strikes on Wednesday was unveiled to foreign media, including the Hankyoreh, at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii.

Transiting the Dardanelles

The U.S. Navy will commission the Stevens on October 3, 2026, in Whittier, Alaska.