Category: Navy

The Royal Thai Navy and the U.S. Navy carried the bilateral Exercise Guardian Sea in the Andaman Sea May 23-27 and a senior RTN officer said his service’s S-70B anti-submarine helicopter did very well in the exercise.

Photos: Royal Thai Navy
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An anonymous South Korean official was quoted by Korea Joongang Daily as saying that Seoul intends to fit submarine-launch ballistic missile (SLBM) on its next generation Chang Bogo-III submarine.

By U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ronald Gutridge [Public domain], via Wikimedia Commons
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As part of its long-term plan to arm its Sejong the Great-class destroyers with the SM-3 and SM-6 air intercept missiles, the South Korean Navy is proceeding with the Mk 41 VLS on three existing ships.

By 대한민국 국군 Republic of Korea Armed Forces (2008년9월27일 해군 세종대왕함기동 (1)) [CC BY-SA 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons

DoD spokesman Bill Urban told Reuters that the Chinese J-11 intercept of a U.S. Navy EP-3 spy plane over South China Sea on May 17 had violated an agreement on rules and behaviors during such encounters by both sides.

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