2018
Russian Navy Artillery Units to Get Uragan-1M MLRS for Coastal Defence
The Russian Navy began to rearm its artillery units in Crimea and Kaliningrad region. They will get long-range multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS...
Russian Navy Rejects Switch to Chinese Engine for Project 22800 Corvettes
The Russian Navy decided to keep domestic M507 diesel engines on Karakurt-class guided missile corvettes of project 22800, FlotProm online publicat...
Safran Signs Submarine Tech Partnership with Australian Companies
Safran is expanding its partnerships, with two Australian companies Advanced Navigation and Thomas Global Systems, to further the development of in...
French Navy Celebrates its 500th SSBN Deterrent Patrol
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) celebrated today the 500th patrol of a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) at the base of l'Île L...
Russia Using SSGN-Launched Granit Cruise Missiles to Test S-400 Air Defense
Russia started using P-700 Granit (NATO reporting name: SS-N-19 'Shipwreck') supersonic antiship missiles launched from submarines to train S-400 a...
Royal Danish Navy Orders SM-2 Block IIIA for Iver Huitfeldt-class Frigates
The Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization (Danish: Forsvarets Materiel- og Indkøbsstyrelse, FMI) placed an order for Raytheon SM-2 ...
Fincantieri & Leonardo Revamping their Orizzonte Sistemi Navali JV
Leonardo and Fincantieri, as part of the collaborative relationship and the preferred partnership launched in October 2014, have established the gu...
MAURIC & ECA Group unveil OCTOPODA range of MCM motherships carrying unmanned systems
To meet the increasing demand from navies and other professional maritime operators, in 2016 ECA Group and MAURIC joined forces to combine their re...
Euronaval 2018: French Navy set to get its own Cooperative Engagement Capability
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) is set to get its own cooperative engagement capability or CEC. The TSMPF (for "tenue de situation multi-platfor...
USS Wasp & US Marines Conduct DATF Drill in South China Sea
The USS Wasp (LHD 1) Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) with embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conducted an integrated Defense of the Amphibi...
General Dynamics to Upgrade Canada's Halifax-class Frigate ASW Suite
General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada was awarded the Underwater Warfare Suite Upgrade (UWSU) contract to upgrade and maintain underwater sensors...
UK MoD awards £1bn Worth of Contracts for Auxiliary Vessels' Support
UK Defence Minister Stuart Andrew has announced that new contracts expected to be worth over £1bn have been signed with British firms to support mi...
New Test Vessel 'Ladoga' Commissioned with Russian Navy
The St. Andrew flag of the Russian Navy has been hoisted on the Ladoga test craft in the port of the town of Lomonosov (the Leningrad region), the ...
MHI Launched the 11th Soryu-class SSK SS-511 Oryu for the JMSDF
The 11th Soryu-class submarine, SS-511 Oryu, was launched at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard in Kobe on October 4th. Oryu features one sig...
Raytheon’s layered defense, naval solutions for the world
Gerard Hueber, Raytheon Naval and Area Mission Defense business development vice president, provides insight into the missile systems protecting na...
UK Defence Secretary Announced a New Defence Arctic Strategy
UK's Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced this week a new Defence Arctic Strategy, acknowledging the increasing opportunities and threa...
General Atomics Completes AAG Performance Testing with Propeller Aircraft
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) performance testing has been successfully completed f...
First Steel Cut for Royal Australian Navy OPVs
A steel cutting ceremony took place on Wednesday to start construction of Royal Australian Navy’s new generation of offshore patrol vessels. The fi...
Here is the First Image of the French Navy Next Generation SSBN - SNLE 3G
Navy Recognition saw for the first time an image showing the future nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) of the French Navy (Marine N...
ECA Group Unveils New 'INSPECTOR 120' 12 Meters USV for MCM
ECA Group unveiled a new USV design, the INSPECTOR 120, as a part of its range of robotic and autonomous systems for naval applications, including ...