2019
Raytheon awarded contract for RAM procurement for US Navy and Japan
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, is awarded a $US 36,7 million firm-fixed-price contract for fiscal 2019 U.S. Navy and foreign military s...
From Rubis to Suffren, the French submarine fleet renewal
After being in service for 35 years, the nuclear attack submarine (SNA) Saphir is the first of six Rubis-class SNAs to be withdrawn from the French...
US Navy awarded contracts for C4I support to multiple companies
BAE System Technology Solutions and Services; Serco; and Scientific Research Corp., are each awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-only indefinite-de...
Pair of Russian submarine programmes to be completed in next 5 years
According to TASS, a pair of Russian submarine programmes should be finished in the coming years as deliveries of the modernized submarines get und...
US Navy christened Littoral Combat Ship 24, USS Oakland
The U.S. Navy christened its newest Independence-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), the future USS Oakland (LCS 24), during a 10 a.m. EDT ceremony...
RCN frigate, supply vessel buzzed by Chinese fighters in Taiwan Strait
Last week, a frigate and a supply vessel of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) have been buzzed by two Chinese fighters as the warships were transiting ...
Russia put Project 133RA hydrofoil cruise missile gunboat on international market
Russia is offering the world’s first hydrofoil gunboat armed with sea-launched cruise missiles to prospective buyers on the international naval har...
New icebreakers to integrate Russian Navy fleet
The active Russian construction of an icebreaker fleet is often explained by purely commercial interests. Naturally, the Northern Sea Route can yie...
Royal Navy signs contract with QinetiQ for gunnery training
On June 27, QinetiQ signed a 5-year contract with the Royal Navy for the introduction of a dedicated training variant of the QinetiQ's Pointer Syst...
USS Billings, US Navy new warship, struck commercial ship in Canada
Earlier this week, USS Billings, a new littoral combat ship (LCS) of the U.S. Navy, collided with a commercial vessel while leaving the port of Mon...
Royal Navy HMS Forth shadowed Russian Navy Vasily Bykov through English Channel
UK Royal Navy warship HMS Forth had to shadow the Russian patrol vessel Vasily Bykov as it was going through the English Channel on June 27.
Babcock completes Type 26 Frigate air weapons handling system testing
Babcock International has successfully completed Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) of the Air Weapons Handling System (AWHS) for the Type 26 Frigate...