Navy News
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 ...
French Navy Fitting Aster 30 Long Range SAM on its Last Two ASW FREMM Frigates
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) last two FREMM Frigates (in anti-submarine warfare variant) Bretagne (D655) and Normandie (D651) have been modif...
U.S. Navy Orders Ten DDG 51 Flight III Destroyers From BIW and HII
The U.S. Navy awarded two contracts for the DDG 51 fiscal years (FY) 2018 - 2022 multiyear procurement (MYP) for DDG 51 Arleigh Burke class destroy...
USC Eyes Russian Navy Contract for Project 23560 Leader-class Destroyer
The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) hopes to get a contract for the construction of a prospective Russian destroyer, USC CEO Alexey Rakhmanov...
Euronaval 2018: MBDA's MMP Goes to Sea
MBDA is working on a navalized variant of its new MMP Missile Moyenne Portée (Medium-Range Missile) fifth generation land combat missile system. Th...
Sono-Flash: Thales New Dual Mode Passive Active Sonobuoy
Thales is working on a new sonobuoy system, the Sono-Flash, that will combine both active and passive modes in a single buoy. This was unveiled to ...
ESG Awarded First Construction Contract for U.S. Coast Guard OPC
Eastern Shipbuilding Group announced on September 28, 2018 that the U.S. Coast Guard exercised the fixed-price, incentive option on its Offshore Pa...
Fincantieri to build 15th Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship
Within the Littoral Combat Ship Program (LCS), the US Navy has awarded the consortium consisting of Fincantieri, through its subsidiary Fincantieri...
F-35B Fighters Land on HMS Queen Elizabeth for the First Time
Fast fighter jets are once again flying from a Royal Navy aircraft carrier as the first F-35s have landed on the flight deck of HMS Queen Elizabeth...
Russia's Project 885M Yasen-M Submarine Kazan Started Sea Trials
The lead Yasen-M-class Kazan nuclear cruise missile submarine (SSGN) of project 885M sailed into the open sea for factory trials on September 24, M...