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Bollinger Shipyards Awarded Nearly $1B to Cover Cost Overruns of Coast Guard Polar Security Cutter Program
Mississippi-based Bollinger Shipyards has received a $951.6 million Fixed-Price-Incentive-Firm Target (FPIF) contract modification from the U.S. Coast Guard to continue designing and constructing the first new heavy icebreakers, also known as the Polar Security Cutter (PSC).

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Australia Air Force Pilots Also Heard Chinese Navy Live-Fire Warning on Radio
The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF), monitoring a Chinese navy warship as it circumnavigated Australia last month, heard it warn it would use live fire in its exercises on a civilian radio broadcast, defense pilots said on Tuesday.

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Malte Humpert
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Russia’s Northern Fleet To Launch Multiple New Nuclear Submarines
Russia plans to significantly increase and modernize the firepower of its Arctic-based submarine fleet. Before the end of the decade three additional Borei-class nuclear submarines will join the country’s Northern Fleet, headquartered near Murmansk.

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Xi Tests US Allies in Indo-Pacific as Trump Focuses Elsewhere
By Bloomberg News Mar 26, 2025 (Bloomberg) –President Xi Jinping is making China’s presence more felt across the Indo-Pacific region by testing US allies on sensitive issues, as Donald Trump’s attention...

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South Korea Installs Platform to Monitor Chinese Presence in Disputed Sea
South Korea has set up a "reciprocal" platform in a disputed area of the Yellow Sea, known in Seoul as the West Sea, where China has increasingly built structures, Oceans Minister Kang Do-hyung said on Wednesday.

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Malte Humpert
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Coast Guard Icebreaker ‘Storis’ To Achieve Initial Operating Readiness by August 2025
The U.S. Coast Guard’s new icebreaker Storis appears on track for its first Arctic patrol during the summer of 2025. The vessel is currently undergoing conversion and retrofitting at a Florida shipyard turning the icebreaking anchor handling tug supply vessel (AHTS) Aiviq into the Coast Guard icebreaker Storis.

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Boeing, Northrop Grumman Await US Navy Next-Generation Fighter Contract This Week, Sources Say
The U.S. Navy is expected to announce this week who will build its next-generation carrier-based stealth fighter - a program worth hundreds of billions over its lifetime and a key part of plans to confront China, people familiar with the decision said.

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Malte Humpert
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U.S. Navy Dispatches Second Destroyer to Patrol ‘Southern Border’
Following last week’s deployment of the USS Gravely to the southern border, the U.S. Navy announced the departure of another Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer to support border operations. USS Spruance...

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Malte Humpert
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gCaptain
India to Hold Naval Drills With African Nations to Counter China
India will hold naval drills with several African nations, the first maritime exercise of this kind, as it tries to counter China’s assertive presence in the Indian Ocean region.

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Australia to Speed Up $1 billion in Defense Spending, Including AUKUS Submarine Base and Frigates
Australia will bring forward A$1 billion in defence spending in Tuesday's federal budget to boost its military capability, including guided weapons manufacture, an AUKUS submarine base and a frigate program, Defence Minister Richard Marles said on Monday.

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Mike Schuler
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U.S. Coast Guard Offloads Over $500 Million in Cocaine, Marijuana from Eastern Pacific Seizures
The U.S. Coast Guard Cutter Stone has completed a major drug interdiction operation in the Eastern Pacific Ocean, offloading approximately 45,600 pounds of illicit narcotics valued at over $517.5 million...

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Mike Schuler
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gCaptain
USNS John Lewis Completes First Fleet Replenishment Operation Off Southern California
The Military Sealift Command’s newest fleet replenishment oiler USNS John Lewis (T-AO 205) achieved a significant milestone by completing its first fleet-tasked underway replenishment operation with USS Mustin off Southern...