The Japan Maritime Self Defense Force (MSDF) minesweeper Ukushima has sunk after experiencing a persistent engine fire, ...

Off the southwest coast of Japan, a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper sank after catching fire the previous day.

The minesweeper is under construction at the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard in St. Petersburg in northwest Russia. Two more warships of this Project, the Georgiy Kurbatov and the Yakov Balyayev ...

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper JS Ukushima (MSC-686) capsized on Monday following an engine room fire on Sunday with one crewmember missing from the incident. Meanwhile Japan’s ...

MOSCOW, November 8. /TASS/. Russia has offered India to build a series of composite Alexandrit-E minesweepers at an Indian shipyard with the subsequent transfer of technology, Russia’s state ...

Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper Ukushima is engulfed in fire off Munakata, Fukuoka Prefecture, on the night of Nov. 10, 2024. (Photo courtesy of Fukuoka Coast Guard Office)(Kyodo ...

A fire on a Maritime Self-Defense Force minesweeper navigating near southwestern Japan has left one crew member missing and another injured. MSDF officials say the fire broke out on the ...