HMS Tyne (P281)
HMS ''Tyne'' is a built by Vosper Thornycroft in Southampton for the Royal Navy to serve as a fishery protection unit within the United Kingdom's waters along with her two sister ships and . All three were commissioned into service in 2003 to replace the five older s. ''Tyne'' is the sixth Royal Navy ship to carry the name and was featured in the first episode of the BBC series ''Empire of the Seas'', "How the Navy Forged the Modern World, Heart of Oak", presented by Dan Snow. Construction The first of her class, ''Tyne'' was built by Vosper Thornycroft at its Woolston, Southampton shipyard in 2001. Following construction, she was launched on 1 July 2002 with an expected handover to the Royal Navy's Fishery Protection Squadron by November. By January 2003, she had completed the first stage of her sea trials in the Solent. The first three River-class ships ''Tyne'', ''Severn'' and ''Mersey'' were the first ever privately funded vessels received by the Royal Navy on charter. ...
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Naval Exercise
A military exercise or war game is the employment of military resources in training for military operations, either exploring the effects of warfare or testing strategies without actual combat. This also serves the purpose of ensuring the combat readiness of garrisoned or deployable forces prior to deployment from a home base. While both war games and military exercises aim to simulate real conditions and scenarios for the purpose of preparing and analyzing those scenarios, the distinction between a war game and a military exercise is determined, primarily, by the involvement of actual military forces within the simulation, or lack thereof. Military exercises focus on the simulation of real, full-scale military operations in controlled hostile conditions in attempts to reproduce war time decisions and activities for training purposes or to analyze the outcome of possible war time decisions. War games, however, can be much smaller than full-scale military operations, do not typic ...
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