2018
Airbus Helicopters Starts NH90 Sea Lion Qualification Phase
The second prototype of the NH90 Sea Lion has performed its first flight in serial configuration on July 10. This event marks the beginning of the ...
RIMPAC 2018: Kongsberg's NSM and Japan's Type 12 Participate in SINKEX
Live fire from aircraft, a submarine, and land assets (including Japan's Type 12 SSM and Kongsberg's NSM) sank the decommissioned ex-USS Racine (LS...
Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship 'Wichita' Completes Acceptance Trials
Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 13, the future USS Wichita, completed Acceptance Trials in the waters of Lake Michigan. LCS 13 is the seventh Freedom-va...
Upgrade of Russian Frigate Neustrashimy Nears Completion
The Defense Ministry and the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) are completing the overhaul and upgrade of the Yastreb-class Neustrashimy frigat...
Russian Navy to get Two Upgraded Molniya-class Missile Boats
The Russian Navy will receive two upgraded Molniya-class missile boats of project 1241 by the beginning of 2019. They were initially planned for a ...
ESG Conducts OPC Final Critical Design Review for the USCG
Panama City, FL, Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) has successfully conducted its Final Critical Design Review (FCDR) with the United States Coast G...
Kongsberg's NSM to Replace German Navy Frigates' Harpoon Anti-Ship Missiles
At Balt Military Expo 2018, the naval defense exhibition held recently in Gdansk, Poland, Navy Recognition learned from a Kongsberg representative ...
China Launched the 30th (and last ?) Type 054A Frigate for the PLAN
Our colleagues from East Pendulum are reporting that the Huangpu Wenchong Shipyard of the Chinese naval group CSSC launched a Type 054A frigate for...
New Zealand Procuring Four Boeing P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft
On 9 July 2018, the Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters announced that New Zealand will acquire four Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft, and training s...
U.S. Navy Completes 1st MQ-8C Fire Scout Operational Test at Sea
USS Coronado (LCS 4) and Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 1 completed the first comprehensive Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&...
ESSM Block 2 with Active Seeker Successfully Intercepts Aerial Target
The NATO Seasparrow Project Office recently conducted a successful flight test of the Evolved Seasparrow Missile (ESSM) Block 2, intercepting a BQM...
Expeditionary Fast Transport vessel Burlington (EPF 10) Completes Builder's Trials
The U.S. Navy's tenth Expeditionary Fast Transport vessel, Burlington (EPF 10), successfully completed Builder's Trials, June 29. The week of trial...
Pakistan Navy Procuring 4 MILGEM Type Corvette from Turkey
Nurettin Janikli, the Minister of National Defense of Turkey, reported on July 5, 2018 that the Turkish design and engineering company Savunma Tekn...
Construction of Russian Blue-Water Vessels May Be Postponed Untill 2035
The construction of blue and green-water warships may be postponed until 2035 because of lack of funds, according to the Shipbuilding strategy of t...
Finnish Navy Selects Gabriel Anti-Ship Missiles for Hamina & Squadron 2020 vessels
Minister of Defence Jussi Niinistö authorised the Finnish Defence Forces’ Logistics Command to make an agreement on purchasing Surface-to-Surface M...
Nevskoe Design Bureau Proposing LPD and LHD Designs to Russian Navy
Nevskoe Design Bureau offered the Russian Navy a modular landing helicopter-carrying dock ship (DVKD) with a displacement of close to 15 thousand t...
Norsafe Launches New Fast Rescue & Patrol Boat at Seawork International
Norsafe has carried out extensive research and development in the last few years to develop a new range of robust and safe boats for the Military a...
Balt Military Expo 2018: KTA Unveils Combat System of Future Type 212CD Submarine
At Balt Military Expo 2018, the naval defense exhibition held recently in Gdansk, Poland, KTA Naval Systems was showcasing for the first time two c...
China’s First AIP Submarine Unit Breaks Records
China’s first submarine unit using air-independent propulsion (AIP) technology recently broke a number of records set by the Chinese navy, Science ...
JFD completed 1st phase of Sea Trials for Indian Navy DSRV
JFD, the world leading underwater capability provider serving the commercial and defence markets, and part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has succes...