Photos Navies Of All Nations

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RN:
British F35s practising night operations on HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08), October 2018

 

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USN:
USS Bon Homme Richard (CV-31) and USS Missouri (BB-63) refuelling from USS Tappahannock (AO-43), 8 July 1945

 

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USN:
A U.S. Navy Lockheed P2V-3C Neptune launches with "Jet-assisted take-off (JATO)" from the aircraft carrier USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVB-42) on 2 July 1951

The early interim solution for a nuclear-capable “carrier based” bomber until the AJ Savage was ready. Twelve P2V-3Cs were converted, and while there had been plans to make them able to land aboard the one aircraft with a tail hook suffered severe structural damage during the shore-based testing and training. Thus, after a nuclear strike they would either have to land ashore or ditch. The Neptunes has to be craned aboard and until launch were a major headache: when parked forward only the port catapult could be used. Only the Midways were large enough for the beast, and as all were needed in the Mediterranean for potential nuclear strikes non saw service in Korea (two CVLs and eight CVEs were recommissioned as combat carriers for the conflict, I’d need to brush up on the number of Essexes brought back as this overlaps with early refits).

For a time the Neptunes and Savages served together as the latter had some serious teething troubles. For example, during FDR’s 1951 Mediterranean deployment six Savages and three Neptunes were ashore in Morocco just in case tensions heightened and they needed a nuclear strike. The Savages has too many problems to deploy aboard regularly and the Neptunes as mentioned caused problems, but they were nearby just in case, and there were many demonstration launches like this.

 

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USN:
USS Saratoga (CV-60), Mayport, Florida, 12 December 1984

 

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Pr. 22160 Vassiliy Bykov in st. Petersburg.

 

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USN:
On her return home after Operation Desert Storm, USS Ranger (CV-61) first stopped off at Pearl Harbor. View here is her crew manning the rail as the carrier departs Pearl through the channel headed to her home port of San Diego, 1 June 1991. USN photo

 

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Russia:
A Kamov Ka-27PS search and rescue helicopter being loaded into the hangar of Udaloy-class destroyer Admiral Panteleyev during SAREX 2019

All three of the Buyan-M (Project 21631) missile corvettes of the Black Sea Fleet at Sevastopol
Ingushetiya (630) - Commissioned 12/28/2019
Vyshny Volochyok (609) - Commissioned 05/29/2018
Orekhovo-Zuevo (626) - Commissioned 11/27/2018
Armament:
1x8 UKSK 3K14 VLS Kalibr-NK missile complex (8 3M14T missiles) (3R14N fire control system)
1x1 76 mm AK-176MA – MR-123-02/3 «Bagira» fire control system
2x6 30 mm AK-630M or on later ships 1 Pantsir-M
2x1 12,7 mm 6P58 Kord Heavy Machine Gun
1 «Orlan-10» unmanned aerial vehicle
Displacement; 800t (Standard)
Range: 2500nm
Endurance: 12 Days
Top Speed: 30kts

Project 21631, 22800, 20380 corvettes and Project 22350 frigate during Navy Day celebration in Saint Petersburg, July 2020

The near future of Russian navy on display.

• Project 21631: 12 ordered, 8 active, 4 under construction.
• Project 22800: 18 ordered, 2 active, 13 under construction.
• Project 20380(20385): 12 ordered, 6 active, 6 under construction.
• Project 22350: 8 ordered, 2 active, 6 under construction.

There are no more Project 21631 corvettes planned, as they have been superseded by Project 22800 in 2015. As for the rest - it is very likely that we'll see more of them being laid down, especially Project 22350 frigates, with 4 of them being laid down in the last 2 years, and with modernized project in the works.

 

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Imperial Japan:
IJN Ise at anchor, circa early Aug 1930

 

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Canada:
HMCS Fredericton returns to Halifax after a 6 month deployment that included the loss of 6 personnel

HMCS Charlottetown, in the North Atlantic.

 

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RN:
HMS Renown leading HMS Courageous and HMS Furious, 1934

 

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Italy:
Logistic Support Ship Vulcano (A 5335) at La Spezia, 23 July 2020.
Vulcano is set to join the fleet this September, and should replace one of the Stromboli-class replenishment oilers. Compared to a Stromboli-class replenishment ship, Vulcano can carry almost twice the amount of diesel fuel, and about eight times the load of aviation gasoline (JP5).

 

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USN:
An Electric Boat employee uses a curve template to ensure accuracy as he rolls a steel plate into a piece of submarine hull, 1943

An Electric Boat employee works on top of USS Cochino (SS 345), with the soon to be launched USS Blenny (SS 324) in the background, 1944

USS Wasp (CV-7) in early 1942, at the Norfolk Navy Yard.

USS Baltimore (CA-68) at Mare Island on 16 July 44

USS North Carolina (BB-55), circa mid-1945

 

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France:
Assembly of one the 330mm turrets of the battleship Dunkerque, Brest, 1936.

Naval review at Toulon, 14th July 1958. The ship in the foreground is the destroyer Kersaint with President Charles de Gaulle on board

 

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USSR:
Battleship Parizhskaia Kommuna at Sevastopol, 8 Feb 1930
He was commissioned as the Sevastopol, but renamed for the Paris Commune after the Communist revolution in Russia. And he not only fought the Germans in World War II, she lasted as a training ship into the 1950s.

Project 68bis cruiser Zhdanov. Launched in 1950, this ship was converted into a command ship in 1971, resulting in the removal of her X turret, addition of a mizzen-mast and several new electronics systems. She was scrapped in 1991.

 

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USCG & PLA(N):
USCGC Waesche (WMSL 751) conducts a hand-line transfer with PLAN Type 054A frigate Yueyang, FF 575 during RIMPAC 2014

**Terrible display of seamanship by the USCG**

 

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Italy:
Leonardo da Vinci was the last of three Conte di Cavour-class dreadnoughts built for the Regia Marina (Royal Italian Navy) in the early 1910s. Completed just before the beginning of World War I, the ship saw no action and was sunk by a magazine explosion in 1916 with the loss of 248 officers and enlisted men. The Italians blamed Austro-Hungarian saboteurs for her loss, but it may have been accidental. Leonardo da Vinci was refloated in 1919 and plans were made to repair her. Budgetary constraints did not permit this and her hulk was sold for scrap in 1923.

Leonardo da Vinci, a short time after its righting operation, January 1921

Battleship Andrea Doria, May 1926

Maestrale class destroyer Scirocco and Condottieri series light cruiser Emanuele Filiberto Duca d'Aosta,Fratelli Orlando dockyard in Livorno

Battleship Vittorio Veneto, La Spezia arsenal, March 1943

 

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Australia:
HMA Ships Canberra and Sirius sail in company through the Philippine Sea as aircraft from United States Carrier Airwing 5 fly above during the Regional Presence Deployment 2020

HMAS Canberra, RIMPAC 2016

 

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Russia:
Support ship PBK-933 and unknown vessel inboard get Lun class ekranoplan MD-160 ready for the journey from Kaspiysk to Derbent, Russia for use as a exhibit, its the first time MD-160 has been in the water since being retired in the late 90’s

 

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Japan:
From top: JS Izumo DDH-183, JS Akebono DD-108 , and JS Murasame DD-101, 2019

 

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RN:
Dido class AA cruiser, HMS Bonaventure

Fairey Albacores landing on VICTORIOUS after a very rough flight over the Norway Coast. October 1941

HMS Whelp and HMS Wager topping up with oil from HMS Duke of York while bound for Tokyo, 1945