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Indonesian navy divers on Thursday recovered the flight recorder of the 2-month-old Lion Air jet that crashed into the sea minutes after takeoff earlier this week, killing all 189 passengers and crew members on board, according to Fox News. 

This U.S. Navy photo obtained June 24 shows the guided-missile cruiser U.S.S. Antietam pulling alongside the Navy's forward-deployed aircraft carrier, U.S.S. Ronald Reagan during a fueling at sea on June 21 in the Philippine Sea.

Prime Minister Viorica Dancila on Wednesday sent a message of congratulations to the marines and civilians on the Romanian Navy Day, while mentioning that, under the national flag, they bring "new meanings and deeper connotations to such notions as devotion, courage and professionalism" every day.

VARNA, Bulgaria (BulgarianMilitary.com), U.S. officially donated four state-of-the-art equipped high-speed motorboats to the Bulgarian Naval forces. One of them is a medium-sized patrol boat, and the other three are from the type Rigid Hull Inflatable Boats (RHIB), learned BulgarianMilitary.com

Members of the Hellenic Navy's underwater demolition teams have carried out a controlled detonation of two unexploded World War II artillery shells found in the sea off the southern coast of Cephalonia, it emerged on Saturday. 

Today, Parliament will discuss the updated project to acquire two multi-purpose modular patrol vessels for the Navy. The previous project failed after in December the only company that filed documents and won the bid for two ships changed its mind and got out of the deal.

A fire on a ship in the port of Bourgas imposed an emergency evacuation of the crew. A team of fire, civil protection and Bulgarian Red Cross joined the rescue operation. Fortunately, the situation is not an accident, but a part of tactical doctrine of the navy, reported BGNES.

Defense Minister Krassimir Karakachanov and Airbus Helicopters vice president Sergey Duran signed a settlement yesterday, settling a dispute over arbitrary relations between the Ministry of Defense and Airbus Helicopters under a 2005 helicopter delivery contract "Cougar" and "Panther", reports OFFnews.bg.

The Hellenic Navy General Staff (HNGS) replaced the captain of a gunboat involved in an incident with a Turkish cargo vessel near the island of Lesvos on Friday morning, military sources said.

A Turkish-flagged merchant ship collided briefly with a Hellenic Navy gunboat Armatolos just off the coast of the eastern Aegean island of Lesvos in the early hours of Friday.