U.S. Navy deploys third destroyer, USS Cole, to support southern border operations with Coast Guard collaboration to combat illegal immigration and drug smuggling.

A model of the FIC on display at IMDEX 2025 indicates that the vessel will be able to embark one crane-deployed rigid-hull inflatable boat (RHIB) for visit, board, search, and seizure (VBSS ...

Specialized training in recent weeks covered VBSS (Visit, Board, Search, and Seizure) operations using RHIB boats, combat diving, and coastal landing procedures. The cooperation was conducted at a ...

New Delhi: India and a group of African countries on Wednesday began the sea phase of their maiden naval drills in the western Indian Ocean region (IOR) to boost maritime security cooperation and ...

El Haroun, 38, received one of the association's Surface Warfare Operational Excellence Awards for his gutsy role in responding to a Somali pirate attack on a commercial tanker in the Gulf of Aden.

India Navy announces maiden India-African exercise, Indian Ocean Ship (IOS) Sagar The maiden initiatives of IOS Sagar and AIKEYME are aimed at consolidating Indian Navy’s stature as the ...

A RHIB is capable of moving faster than 20 miles an hour, but French said he couldn’t comment on whether speed played a role in Friday’s capsizing. Article content.

October 10, 2020 – Sailors and Coast Guardsmen prepare to recover a rigid-hulled inflatable boat (RHIB) while conducting small boat operations aboard the Independence-class littoral combat ship USS ...

Next, it was the MARCOS team’s turn to board, as their RHIB raced through the swells, with the commandos hunkered down rifles trained forward toward the Amatola. Circling around the frigate, the RHIB ...

Navy Special Warfare Operator 1st Class Nathan Gage Ingram [left] and Chief Special Warfare Operator Christopher J. Chambers [right] died on Jan. 11, 2024.