Source: https://gcaptain.com/months-boredom-moments-terror Watch Officer Daniel Sullivan takes a bearing of a surface contact in a congested waterway. Photo by Petty Officer Prince Hughes Could a new system of training prevent incidents by teaching watch officers how to achieve a state of…
Source: http://www.c4isrnet.com/story/military-tech/uas/2016/04/08/kamikaze-drone-filmed-nagorno-karabakh-conflict/82802232/ A YouTube video indicates that an Israeli-made “kamikaze drone” has been used by Azerbaijan against Armenian forces in the conflict over the disputed territory of Nagorno-Karabakh, according to the Washington Post. The video appears…
Source: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-philippines-militants Gunmen seized four Malaysian crew of a tugboat off the coast of the eastern state of Sabah, a week after a similar attack on a Taiwanese tugboat in the southern Philippines, media reported on…
Source: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-36016071 Pirates have attacked a Turkish cargo ship off the coast of Nigeria kidnapping six of the crew, says the Nigerian navy. The ship carrying chemicals was believed to be travelling from Gabon to Ivory…
Source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/world/middleeast/yemen-us-seizes-weapons-at-sea.html American Navy ships in the Arabian Sea intercepted and seized an arms shipment from Iran likely bound for Houthi rebels in Yemen, the military said in a statement on Monday. The weapons seized last…
Source: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/checkpoint/wp/2016/04/05/israeli-made-kamikaze-drone-spotted-in-nagorno-karabakh-conflict/ Video of what appears to be an Israeli-made suicide drone flying over the disputed area of Nagorno-Karabakh, where Azerbaijan and Armenia have clashed in recent days, surfaced Tuesday, in what could be one of…
Source: https://gcaptain.com/somali-pirates-head-to-court-in-paris-over-2011-hijacking-of-sailing-yacht/ Evelyne Colombo was rescued unharmed on Sept. 10, 2011 by a boarding team from the SPS GALICIA. Photo credit: EU NAVFOR PARIS, March 29 (Reuters) – Seven Somali men accused of hijacking a French…
Source: http://www.defenseone.com/technology/2016/03/nuclear-armed-isis-its-not-farfetched-expert-say/127039/?oref=d-river A Harvard researcher says the terror group might be closer to wreaking some sort of radioactive havoc than we think. The murder of a security guard at a Belgian nuclear facility just two days…
Source: http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1ea0e562321b4ffba3996c13782b69cc/2-suspects-ivory-coast-beach-attack-arrested-mali BAMAKO, Mali (AP) — Authorities in Mali say they have arrested two men in connection with an attack by Islamic extremists in Ivory Coast that left at least 19 people dead this month. Commandant…
source: wo days after bomb attacks at Brussels airport and on a packed metro killed 31 people and injured hundreds, a security guard who worked at a Belgian nuclear site was killed but the local…