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Navy News Week 5-1 NAVY NEWS WEEK 5-1 28 January 2018 Pirates release tanker and 22 crew held hostage off African coast Tue 16 Jan 2018 by Jamey Bergman A clean product tanker with 22 crew onboard that was overtaken by pirates in the Bight of Benin has been safely recovered. Shipowners Union Maritime confirmed the release in their third statement since losing track of the ship's location when its AIS data stopped updating. "Union Maritime can confirm that Barrett has been released after a Gulf of Guinea piracy incident lasting six days. All crew are safe. We are extremely grateful to the many parties that assisted in achieving the successful resolution of this incident," the statement said. According to the statement, authorities from Benin, Togo, Nigeria and India all participated in recovering the vessel and its crew. The company said the crew had returned to Lagos, Nigeria where Union Maritime staff were on hand to provide aid. Timeline of the attack Previous statements from the company gave more detail about the timeline of the ship attack. "The Union Maritime vessel, Barrett, a tanker which was at anchor off Benin, West Africa, has been the subject of a Gulf of Guinea piracy attack since 10 January," the company's second statement said. The group said the safety of the crew was its first priority throughout the search for the vessel and in attempting to bring the incident to a resolution. A company spokesperson told Tanker Shipping and Trade the company was actively working with all relevant parties to ensure the situation is resolved “successfully and as quickly as possible”. Contact with the 12,000 DWT Barrett was lost on the morning of 10 January, when it was at anchor off Benin, West Africa, according to Union Maritime's first statement. "On Wednesday (10 January), we alerted local maritime authorities and [explored] all possible options and efforts as we continuously [monitored] the situation," the group said. Union Maritime said it regularly operates vessels from ports in the region and that all of its vessels' crews are repeatedly drilled in safety and emergency procedures. According to AIS data from Genscape's VesselTracker software, the Marshall Islands-registered Barrett left an anchorage off the port of Lagos, Nigeria in the evening of 5 January, proceeding west until it reached the vicinity of Lomé, Togo, on the morning of 6 January. It departed the area in the afternoon of 8 January and was headed east until it abruptly turned to port, towards land in Cotonou, Benin (see image below), when its AIS tracking data ceased updating. The vessel's AIS tracking was restored late on 17 January, showing it proceeding into port at Lagos, Nigeria, where it is currently anchored. Source: http://www.tankershipping.com Frigate Jingzhou fires depth charges in East China Sea Source：China Military Online Editor：Huang Panyue 2018-01-17 A simulated sea target is hit by the rocket-propelled depth charge launched by the guided-missile frigate Jingzhou (Hull 532) attached to a destroyer flotilla with the East China Sea Fleet under the PLA Navy during a 5-day live-fire training exercise in waters of the East China Sea from January 10 to 15, 2018. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Wen Zidong) Source: http://eng.mod.gov.cn Greece to launch talks with France over FREMM frigates, corvettes By: Jaroslaw Adamowski January 17 The French Navy's FREMM warship Normandy on July 2, 2014, in Larmor-Plage, near Lorient, Brittany. (Jean-Sebastien Evrard/AFP via Getty Images) WARSAW, Poland ― The Greek Ministry of Defence may acquire two FREMM multimission frigates for its Navy, and as such, Athens plans to launch negotiations with the French government in February. A Greek source close to the deal told local daily Kathimerini that the decision follows an earlier verbal agreement between French President Emmanuel Macron and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. The Greek order could be expanded by a further two vessels. Due to the cost of the frigates, which have an estimated tag price of between €500 million and €600 million (U.S. $612 million to U.S. $735 million), the Greek ministry is also considering the purchase of French Gowind-class corvettes for its Navy, according to the source. The FREMM frigate was jointly designed by the Franco-Italian consortium of Naval Group and Fincantieri for the two countries’ navies. In addition to the potential deal with Athens, Paris has sold one frigate to Morocco and one to Egypt. Naval Group also developed the Gowind. Naval Group says the FREMM is a versatile vessel enabled to execute a wide range of missions encompassing all warfare domains. These include anti-aircraft, anti-submarine and anti-surface warfare, as well as land attack and command ship missions, among others. Source: https://www.defensenews.com Only a few years ago they were so deep in debt that they had to be bailed by the rest of the EU. An arms race is building between China and its neighbours as the world focuses on Trump and North Korea spat While Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un traded public insults, Beijing has been quietly bolstering its military presence on islands in the South China Sea Kim Sengupta Defence Editor Wednesday 17 January 2018 16:00 GMT China's Liaoning aircraft carrier with accompanying fleet conducts a drill in the South China Sea Reuters Japan used to have one of the most powerful aircraft carrier forces in the world, with a fleet of six. The US had seven, but the Imperial Japanese Navy was close to taking delivery of two more, gaining a decisive strategic advantage when the Second World War broke out. Four years later, the Japanese carrier fleet was at the bottom of the ocean, Emperor Hirohito had signed the surrender document and the Imperial Navy was disbanded. The Japan Maritime Self-Defence Force was later formed, but with strict defensive rules of engagement. It has now emerged that Tokyo is planning to convert some of its Izumo-Class helicopter carriers into aircraft carriers, the country’s first in 80 years, making them capable of using fixed wing warplanes, probably American F-35 stealth fighters with vertical take-off and landing capabilities. There has been an immediate reaction from China, with the accusation that acquiring the aircraft carriers and the fighters would breach Article 9 of Japan’s constitution post-war. “We urge Japan to do more that may enhance mutual trust and promote regional peace and stability,” said a foreign ministry spokesman. But Beijing is also flexing its naval muscles. While the Russian carrier Admiral Kuznetsov was returning home last year after duties in Syria, its sister carrier – former Soviet vessel Varyag, now the Lianonig of the Chinese People’s Liberation Navy – was on manoeuvres in its maiden cruise in the South China Seas, scene of bitter disputes with neighbouring countries. The concern about conflicts in the Far East has focused on North Korea. But the longer-lasting undercurrent of tension, which may yet lead to hostilities, has been around China and surrounding states that believe Beijing is trying to spread its hegemony in the South China Seas by claiming strings of manmade islands and the strategic waters around them. Throughout last year, while Donald Trump and Kim Jong-un traded public insults, Beijing has been quietly bolstering its military presence on islands it has been building. Among its seven island bases are three airfields in the disputed Spratley chain. There has been a significant construction drive. Aerial photographs from the Centre for Strategic and International Studies in Washington revealed facilities awash with fortified shelters for warships and artillery and hangers for aircraft and radar. The most advanced base, Fiery Cross Reef, has a 27-acre hinterland of military buildings including underground bunkers and missile emplacement positions. A few weeks before the news of the Japanese carriers, China announced that it would launch its second aircraft carrier in just over two years, paving the way to start the manufacture of a third. The Ministry of Defence in Beijing declared a breakthrough in aircraft technology which it claimed was the most advanced jet launch system in the world that does not use nuclear power. Around the same time, as Donald Trump toured the region, the US Navy said it will hold joint drills in the Western Pacific for the first time in a decade with three of its aircraft carriers: The USS Ronald Reagan, USS Nimitz and USS Theodore Roosevelt. Admiral Scott Swift, commander of the US Pacific Fleet wanted to stress: “This exercise is a strong testament to the US Pacific Fleet’s unique ability and ironclad commitment to the continued security and stability of the region.” But one significant reason for Beijing to feel emboldened has been Mr Trump’s threats to pull US forces out of Japan and South Korea unless there was more money coming from Tokyo and Seoul. There has also been the marked reluctance of his administration to buttress an alliance of China’s neighbours. “The Trump administration has left other countries in the region unsure of the US, its credibility, its commitment,” says Bonnie Glaser, East Asia analyst at the Centre for Strategic and International Studies. “They wonder where the South China Seas fit in an ‘America First’ world.” Faced with the unpredictability of Mr Trump, some of China’s former adversaries have now accepted they have to have more amicable relations with the region’s largest nation. Two years ago the Philippines went to an industrial tribunal to challenge Beijing’s claim to more than 85 per cent of the South China Sea and won.
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