A routine ferry journey near Mumbai’s Gateway of India took a tragic turn on Wednesday evening when a naval speedboat collided with the Neel Kamal, a ferry carrying tourists to Elephanta Island. The crash claimed the lives of 13 people, including naval personnel, engineers conducting engine trials, and several unsuspecting passengers. The incident, which occurred … Read more
Defense Minister Israel Katz on Sunday said that the new rulers of Syria are “pretending” to be more moderate but present an increased danger to Israel. Speaking to the committee of former national security council chief Yaakov Nagel about how they frame the future structure and budget of the IDF for the coming years … Read more
“Some people viewed Penny as callous and his actions as criminal on the day he encountered Neely, who had been shouting and acting erratically,” NBC’s Janelle Griffith and Erik Ortiz write. “Others contend Penny was selfless in his attempt to protect fellow passengers.” Others, the vice president-elect has made clear, like Vance. On the day … Read more
“The IDF announced that it destroyed Syria’s navy,” the announcer of the KAN radio news bulletin said matter-of-factly at 11:00 am on Tuesday. There were two astounding things about that announcement. The first was that Israel had taken out the Syrian navy, with all its ships and sea-to-sea missiles. The second was that this … Read more
Iran is building heavy submarines that will be capable of launching cruise missiles from the depths of the sea, Iranian Navy Commander Shahram Irani said in an interview with the Iranian news agency Tasnim. According to him, the new warships will be equipped with Vertical Launch Systems (VLS). Irani also said that his country … Read more
Last spring, nearly four thousand college-football players entered the “transfer portal,” as the online database of athletes signalling their availability is known in the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s bylaws. Some of them returned to their schools. But more than two thousand of them moved, for the reasons people have always moved: work opportunities, better weather, … Read more
Russia, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Pakistan, Qatar, Oman, Bangladesh, and India participated in a naval exercise this week. Various ships practiced various scenarios at sea, including putting out a fire on a ship. This is important for Iran because it helps the relatively small Iranian navy work closely with other navies and gives the Iranian … Read more
Israeli Navy officials say that Hezbollah still has a functioning naval arm that possesses anti-ship missiles and potentially naval ballistic missiles as well. The IDF has closely monitored Hezbollah’s naval capacities over the last decade; most of its attention was on the Russian-made supersonic Yakhont missile, described as the “nightmare of Western fleets.” According … Read more
TOKYO: Japan lodged a protest with China after one of its naval survey vessels entered Japanese waters on Saturday (Aug 31), the second incursion into its territory by the Chinese military in less than a week. An uptick in Chinese military activity near Japan and around Taiwan in recent years has stoked concerns in Tokyo. Japan … Read more
Spokane, Washington — Hannah Cvancara is motivated, physically fit and patriotic, everything the U.S. military desires. Except for a condition the military considers disqualifying: an amputated left foot, which occurred when she was just 10 months old, the result of a rare birth defect. “I’ve never counted it as part of my identity,” Cvancara told … Read more
