Alex Vicefield

We’re excited to announce the finalization of the $3.5B contract with the @USCG. Davie Defense will build five Arctic Security Cutters, two at Helsinki Shipyard and three at Gulf Copper Shipyard. bit.ly/3PcWNzT

@USCG finalized a $3.5B contract with Davie Defense for construction & delivery of 5 Arctic Security Cutters (ASCs), a new class of polar icebreakers that will strengthen America’s maritime dominance in the Arctic. Using nearly $25B provided by the historic 2025 budget reconciliation, the Coast Guard has already ordered $13B+ in new fleet assets & capabilities, demonstrating our commitment to modernizing acquisition, delivering next-generation technology, & revitalizing American shipbuilding. The ASC program fulfills @POTUS’ directive to rapidly expand the nation’s Arctic fleet by delivering 11 ASCs, while bringing Arctic shipbuilding expertise back to the U.S. & strengthening industrial capability and workforce development at U.S. shipyards. Read more: tinyurl.com/3sve7sm2

Inocea Group, through its acquisition and development of shipbuilding facilities in Texas is actively preparing to support the new US Shipbuilding Plan.

@afalkhatib Ending military aid to Israel would weaken US national security and strengthen Israel's national security and its defence industry.

It isn’t only Prime Minister Netanyahu who wants to phase out, and eventually end, U.S. annual military aid to Israel. For years, many in Israel’s security and political establishments have argued that true strategic autonomy requires reducing dependence on Washington, especially given long‑standing fears that future U.S. administrations may no longer support this aid package (distinct from military sales that Israel pays for). But those pushing to eliminate aid should confront a central question: would the United States lose meaningful leverage over Israeli policy if annual assistance were to disappear? Critics argue Washington has rarely used this leverage effectively, aside from limited moments under George H. W. Bush and, to a lesser degree, the Biden administration. A future Democratic administration with a Democratic Congress could accelerate the shift, potentially ending aid without the gradual, decade‑long transition Netanyahu envisions. The U.S.-Israel relationship would not collapse without annual aid, but the change would reverberate: it would affect military sales, U.S. assistance to Egypt and Jordan tied to their peace treaties with Israel, and Washington’s ability to shape Israeli policy toward the Palestinians and the broader region.

Underway transfer of Hammerhead boat from MV ASTERIX to HMCS CHARLOTTETOWN, historically first cross-ship transfer of Hammerhead, #OpHORIZON, SPacific Ocean, 7Apr26. Demonstrates future capability to transfer #USV #drone from logistics ship to surface combatant H/T @ReadyAyeReady

Rarely a day goes by without reports of allied navies struggling to keep ships operational. It shows how transformative Asterix has been: 8 years in service. Zero unplanned downtime. In today's world of forward operations, logistics isn’t optional, it’s everything.

HMCS CHARLOTTETOWN sails alongside MV ASTERIX prior to conducting a replenishment at sea while sailing for Operation HORIZON 2026 on 03 April 2026. Photo by: MS Alexandre Heagle Canadian Armed Forces Imagery Technician

@Osint613 Not since they were harboring Bin Laden

Pakistan’s PM Shehbaz Sharif: From Tokyo to London, from Casablanca to Kuala Lumpur, television channels and institutions everywhere are speaking about Pakistan. You have never seen a moment like this before.

"The United States has spent seven decades severing every operational link between the Navy and the Merchant Marine, and the Hormuz crisis is the bill coming due." 🎯NAILED IT 🎯 centerformaritimestrategy.org/publications/t…

It's probably time that Europeans just stop talking and say thank you to the USA and Israel for the work they are doing. It's the least they could do.

“Group Captain Sandy Sandilands, we’ve decided to appoint you military attaché.” “Thank you, sir. With two years as an Arctic warfare instructor and fluency in Swedish, Russian and Finnish, I’d be honoured to—” *Sniggering* “You’re sending me to a desert country, aren’t you?”

@johnkonrad Overall a sad state of affairs for the UK

We had a good thing, Britain. A really good thing. You taught us this game. Mahan studied you. We just wrote bigger checks. The deal was simple. We spend the trillions. Fight the hard wars. We even let you sit out Vietnam. And you? You hold the chokepoints you already own. You run Lloyd’s. Ships in the narrows, insurance on the hulls. That’s all you had to do and we would back your interests with the strongest military and financial markets in the world. That was the deal. Now look at you. You gave up Aden. Fine. You kept Diego Garcia so we could reach it with bombers. Now you’re giving that away too. To a Chinese client state. You built Israel to guard Suez. Now your Foreign Secretary threatens to arrest their PM. You built a base nearby to back it up. Iran hit your base in Cyprus. You didn’t have one warship in the Mediterranean. Spain got there first. Spain. You gave up Hong Kong but backed Taiwan. Now you’re letting China build the largest embassy in Europe on top of London’s fiber-optic cables. We gave you Five Eyes. You gave Beijing a SIGINT platform in the heart of the City. Gibraltar. Three hundred years. Actual sieges. Now the Spanish run your border checks. You lost South Africa but kept the Falklands so we can overfly the Magellan Strait. Argentina could probably take that with rowboats today. Your king kept ownership of the Canadian, Australian and New Zealand navies to fill the gaps. Those navies are now a laughing stock. Your warships and bombers patrolled the GIUK gap. Now you don’t have enough but you also don’t want us buying Greenland. Fine. You do it. With what? We gave London the @IMOHQ to regulate shipping, you backed the EU agenda to carbon tax every ship to build woke UN slush fund. Iran closed Hormuz. In the ‘80s, 540 ships got hit. Lloyd’s never blinked. Because your navy was there. Now Lloyd’s cancels. Because it isn’t. You scrapped your only amphibious ships. Sold them. To Brazil. You have more admirals than warships. You built two light carriers but they keep springing leaks and you don’t have enough escort ships to support them. The English Channel. Stopped Napoleon. Stopped Hitler. Now you can’t stop rubber dinghies. You had one job. Have the warships, diplomatic backbone and insurance to support shipping through the straits. That’s it. That’s all we asked. And you blew it. Chokepoint by chokepoint. Called it progress.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ Now hundreds of ships are stuck in the Persian Gulf and the world is blaming us. But that’s ok. All those solar panels you bought from China will keep you warm in that dreary weather I guess.

Raw(er) video of Swedish police operators boarding de facto Russian grain theft ship CAFFA.

The Finnish shipyard making the world's toughest #icebreakers "Reporting for @BBCWorld Tech Now, Adrienne Murray visits Finland to meet the engineers designing and testing the world's strongest icebreakers capable of navigating through Arctic sea ice." bbc.com/reel/video/p0m…

An historic day in Liverpool taking delivery of Wave Ruler from the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence.

Meet the two Wave-Class Fast Fleet Tankers which we have recently acquired from the United Kingdom Ministry of Defence and will put into service for our NATO allies.

@geertwilderspvv @netanyahu 100%

He made the world a so much safer place, crushing Hezbollah in Lebanon, Hamas in Gaza and freed Iran of the worst dictator and butcher Khamenei. If someone really deserves the #NobelPrize for Peace it’s my brave friend the Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin #Netanyahu! @netanyahu

Footage of Kuwaiti locals approaching one of the shot down American pilots this morning. “Are you OK? Thank you for helping us.”

When GPS lies, ships stop moving. GNSS spoofing, the deliberate manipulation of satellite navigation signals, has been confirmed in the Gulf. Ships can’t trust where they are, so many are choosing not to go at all. The result: a sharp drop in vessel traffic through the Strait of Hormuz, a chokepoint that carries ~20% of global oil flows. This isn’t just a navigation problem. When ships hesitate in a corridor this critical, supply chains feel it and so do energy prices. Kpler data doesn’t just show you the headlines. It shows you what’s happening before the headlines catch up.