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MoD charted Ro-Ro MV Eddystone arrives in 🇸🇬Singapore 
Likley carrying supplies and equipment to support of #CSG25 deployment.

#SembwangDockyard #Singapore #MilitaryLogistics
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First visit to Portsmouth by an🇮🇹Italian PPA (Multipurpose Offshore Patrol Vessel)

ITS Giovanni delle Bande Nere arrives this afternoon.

#marinemilitare #Portsmouth @marinamilitareofficial #pattugliatorepolivalentedaltura 

Via: PortsmouthProud
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Cdr Gavin Lowe RN has assumed Command of #HMSTrent alongside in Gibraltar, relieving Cdr Tim Langford after his 2 years in post. 

Trent will return to UK for #FOST and aviation training, before deploying to the Caribbean.

#ChangeofCommand #Gibraltar #OPV #RoyalNavy
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🇳🇴HNoMS Otto Sverdrup south of Plymouth Breakwater this morning with 'killer tomato' gunnery target on the flight deck #FOST

#Forsvaret #fleetoperationalstandardstraining #Gunnery #killertomato 
 

Via: RFA Nostalgia
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SD Northern River alongside in #Gibraltar. She was employed to support the recent #CSG25 exercise Med Strike off Sicily.

She launched 16 Banshee Whirlwind UAV targets and the #QinetiQ team injected hundreds of synthetic threats into the Carrier Strike Group Command and Control picture for the complex training event.

#Serco #SDNorthernRiver #NavalAuxiliary #NavalLogistics

Via @dferro10
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#RFATidespring conducts Replenishment At Sea with #HMSDauntless in the Arabian Sea this morning. #CSG25 

#Type45Destroyer #RoyalNavy #RoyalFleetAuxiliary #ReplenishmentAtSea
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7,200 tonne German frigate 🇩🇪FGS Sachsen-Anhalt outbound from Devonport this morning.

#deutschemarine #PlymouthSound #FOST 

Via @westward01
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#HMSPrinceofWales and #HMSRichmond conducted exercises yesterday with 🇮🇳Indian submarine and frigate INS Tabar in the North Arabian Sea #CSG25 

#IndianNavy #ArabianSea #RoyalNavy #AircraftCarrier #Type23Frigate #INSTabar
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Farewell old girl. 

ex-HMS Bristol towed out of Portsmouth early this morning to be scrapped in Turkey. 

A one-off, lead ship of Type 82 destroyers intended as escorts for the cancelled CVA-01 aircraft carrier. Launched 1969, served in the Falklands War. Paid off 1991. Harbour training ship until 2020.

#RoyalNavy #HMSBristol #type82destroyer #ScrapMetal #UnderTow #Portsmouth #Farewel
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