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The Naval Base is depicted in grey A US Marine from USS Nashville unloads a M1A1 Abrams main battle tank from a Landing Craft Air Cushion at Naval Station Rota. Naval Station Rota is home to an airfield and a seaport; [13] the airfield has often caused the base to be misidentified as "Naval Air Station Rota". The base is the headquarters for ...
The Sixth Fleet is a numbered fleet of the United States Navy operating as part of United States Naval Forces Europe-Africa. The Sixth Fleet is headquartered at Naval Support Activity Naples, Italy. [2] The officially stated mission of the Sixth Fleet in 2011 is that it "conducts the full range of Maritime Operations and Theater Security ...
Canopus. (AS-34) USS Canopus (AS-34) was a Simon Lake -class submarine tender of the United States Navy, operational from 1965 to 1994. The vessel was used to repair and refit submarine-launched Polaris nuclear-armed ballistic missiles and the submarines that deployed with them. The vessel primarily served US naval bases on the US Atlantic ...
Fleet Numerical Meteorology and Oceanography Center. Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake. Naval Base San Diego. Naval Base Coronado. Naval Amphibious Base Coronado. Naval Air Station North Island. Naval Outlying Field Imperial Beach. Naval Auxiliary Landing Field San Clemente Island. Naval Base Point Loma.
HSM-79. Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron Seven Nine (HSM-79) "Griffins" is a United States Navy helicopter squadron [2] based at Naval Base Rota, Rota, Spain. The unit operates the Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk which provides deployed aircraft and crews to ships of the Sixth Fleet. [3]
46 crew and 30 forces [2] Armament. 1 cannon 76 mm/62 gun. 2 x 25 mm automatic mountings. 2 × 12.7 mm machine guns. Aircraft carried. 1 × NH-90. Rayo (P-42) is the second ship of the Meteoro class, a new kind of offshore patrol vessel created for the Spanish Navy and called BAM s.
1 October 1997 - Changed name to “Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Europe and Central, Detachment Rota, Spain (NCTAMS EURCENT Det Rota)” to reflect the broader area of responsibility for the regional command in Naples that then included Europe and Southwest Asia (aka Central).
Spanish ship. Castilla. (L52) Castilla docked at the Rota naval base. Castilla (L52) is a Galicia -class landing platform dock (LPD), and is the twelfth ship of this name. She is the sister ship to the amphibious warfare vessel Galicia. The vessel is primarily used to transport Spanish marines but is also used for humanitarian aid missions.