Naval News Navy 2025
Germany to Base Warships Plus Submarines and Recon Aircraft in Iceland for Arctic Security
On 20 October 2025, Germany and Iceland moved to significantly deepen their security cooperation in the Arctic and North Atlantic, a step framed by...
StormRider Naval Drone Completes Sea Trials and Fields Warmate TL for Baltic defense
Poland’s WB Group confirmed that StormRider, an optionally manned unmanned surface vessel developed with in-house firms Radmor and Arex, has wrappe...
U.S. forces hit drug-carrying semi-submersible in Caribbean aerial precision strike
According to information published by Donald Trump on Truth Social, on October 18, 2025, White House video shows an aerial precision strike against...
NATO exercise validates POLARIS with undetectable laser link between two Portuguese frigates
A NATO sea trial has quietly shifted the comms playbook. During REPMUS 2025, Astrolight’s POLARIS free-space optical terminals linked NRP Dom Franc...
Historic U.S. Marine Amphibious Drill Marks Corps’ 250th Birthday and Modern Warfare Shift
On 17 October 2025, at USMC Base Camp Pendleton, California, the I Marine Expeditionary Force (I MEF), the Marine Corps’ largest deployable warfigh...
Martlet Missile makes Wildcat Helicopter a frontline and fast boat killer for British Navy
The British Royal Navy has confirmed Martlet is fully ready for operations on the Wildcat HMA2, a decision informed by an autumn sequence of live f...
British HMS Prince of Wales and Indian INS Vikrant aircraft carriers lead first UK India carrier exercise
London, UK, October 19, 2025 - According to a Royal Navy announcement on October 15, 2025, the British aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales led a C...
French Navy frigate Forbin makes first Aster 30 missile interception of AASM guided bomb
In a milestone for European naval defense, the French Navy announced on October 17, 2025, that its Horizon-class frigate Forbin successfully interc...
UK Navy frigate HMS Iron Duke shadows Russian submarine near French coast amid rising tensions
London, UK, October 17, 2025 - According to information released by the British Royal Navy on October 14, 2025, the UK Navy frigate HMS Iron Duke l...
U.S. Special Forces mass near Venezuela as helicopters and B-52s operate across the Caribbean
The Washington Post published on October 16, 2025, that U.S. Special Operations helicopters operated within roughly 90 miles of Venezuela’s coastli...
Sweden awards Saab $1,0B contract for two A26 submarines to strengthen NATO deterrence
Swedish company Saab confirmed on October 13, 2025, that Sweden’s procurement agency FMV placed an additional order worth roughly SEK 9.6 billion t...
US Navy's new Atlas floating drydock to launch America’s largest nuclear submarines
On October 10, 2025, Bollinger Shipyards and General Dynamics Electric Boat christened the floating dry dock Atlas in Tampa, Florida, which was cre...