2020
Japan’s Vice Defense Minister leaks image of new hypersonic anti-ship missile
Japanese Deputy Defense Minister Tomohiro Yamamoto accidentally shared the picture of the lethal missile himself after visiting the Research Center...
The proposed weaponry and design for the U.S. Navy’s Future Frigate
Following years of analysis and international competition, the U.S. Navy has selected Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri to build its FFG(X) “future f...
Saab Receives Order from Sweden for Torpedo 62 Life Extension
Saab has received the first order from the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for the life extension of the heavyweight torpedo system. ...
US Approves FMS of 64 MK 54 Lightweight Torpedoes to Germany and 29 to Belgium
The US State Department has made a determination approving possible Foreign Military Sales to the Government of Germany of sixty-four (64) MK 54 Al...
Veecraft Marine and Armscor deliver workboat to Special Forces of South Africa
Veecraft Marine, subsidiary of Paramount Maritime, has delivered a 20-meter (LOA) workboat to Armscor on behalf of the South African National Defen...
BAE Systems reaches a new milestone in the construction of Dreadnought Submarine
The newest section of the first Dreadnought submarine to be built at BAE Systems’ yard in Barrow has been moved, as work on the first of class cont...
Indra to equip Spanish navy F110 frigates with sensors
Indra has signed several contracts with Navantia for more than 150 million euros to equip the future F110-class frigates of the Spanish Navy with s...
Israel Shipyards to supply two OPV 45 offshore Patrol Vessels to undisclosed African Navy
Israel Shipyards ‒ one of the largest privately-owned shipbuilding and repair facilities in the Eastern Mediterranean ‒ announces an agreement with...
Elbit Systems and Israeli Navy trial Seagull USV with onboard mini USV
Elbit Systems and the Israeli Navy have conducted trials using Elbit’s Skylark C mini unmanned aerial system (UAS) onboard the Seagull unmanned sur...
Russian Zvezda shipyard begins construction Leader-class nuclear icebreaker
Zvezda Shipyard in Bolshoi Kamen in the Far East began to cut metal for the first Leader-class nuclear icebreaker of project 10510. It has been ord...
ECA Group Selects UAV SKELDAR V-200 for Belgian-Dutch Minehunter Replacement Program
ECA Group awarded UMS SKELDAR a procurement contract to supply the UAV SKELDAR V-200 as part of the naval mine countermeasures capability replaceme...
US Navy Carriers Conducts Operations in South China Sea For First Time In Six Years
The Nimitz and Ronald Reagan Carrier Strike Force are conducting dual-carrier operations in the South China Sea, July 6. It is a significant show f...
Japan starts refit work on Izumo-class helicopter carriers to support F-35B operations
Some pictures of the JS Izumo undergoing refit work at Japan Marine United’s (JMU’s) Isogo shipyard in Yokohama City, with its island covered by sc...
Admiral Kasatonov Frigate to enter service with Russian Navy in July
According to TASS News Agency, the Project 22350 first serial-produced frigate Admiral Kasatonov will enter service with the Russian Navy in July, ...
Leonardo’s first Virtual Exhibition focuses on Naval capabilities for Middle Eastern maritime security
Starting on 6th of July, the Italian-headquartered defence and security multinational company, Leonardo launched its first virtual exhibition, whic...
Lockheed Martin receives contract from US Navy to integrate technological improvements to warships
According to a contract released by the U.S. doD (Department of Defense) on July 6, 2020, Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, Baltimore, Ma...
Russian Navy to commission more than 40 ships in 2020
Recently, Tass News Agency announced the commissioning of 40 ships and vessels of various classes in 2020, Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Nikolai ...
Raytheon missiles receives modification contract to provide AIM-9X Block II missiles to US
According to a contract released by the U.S. DoD (Department of Defense) on July 6, 2020, Raytheon Missiles and Defense, Tucson, Arizona, is awarde...
Guided Missile Destroyer USS McCampbell Returns to U.S. for Modernization
The guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell (DDG 85) departed Yokosuka, Japan, July 2, for Portland, Oregon, to complete a scheduled a 17-month Dep...
Vigor Marine wins contract to repair US Navy USS McCampbell DDG 85 guided missile destroyer
According to a contract released by the U.S. DoD (Department of Defense) on June 6, 2020, Vigor Marine LLC, Portland, Oregon, is awarded a $133,406...