Navy News
US Navy to Christen New Littoral Combat Ship Mobile
The Navy will christen its newest Independence-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), the future USS Mobile (LCS 26), during a 10 a.m. CDT ceremony Sa...
Dutch Police Patrol Vessel Christened at Damen Shipyards Gorinchem
On November 29, the christening of a patrol ship for the Dutch National Police took place at Damen Shipyards Gorinchem. This vessel is the first in...
Russian Navy to get over 480 items of armament and military hardware
The Russian Navy will receive over 480 items of armament and military hardware in 2019, including submarines, surface ships and missile systems, Pr...
Fairbanks Morse engines to power Navy’s seventh Expeditionary Sea Base ship
Fairbanks Morse, an EnPro Industries company (NYSE: NPO), reports that it has been awarded a contract for four main propulsion diesel engines (MPDE...
The New Polish Navy vessel ORP Slazak ready for duty
18 years after the keel-laying ceremony, the ORP Ślązak patrol corvette has been finally commissioned. The patrol ship will be part of the Battle S...
Royal Canadian Navy’s First Harry DeWolf-Class Arctic And Offshore Patrol Ship Started Sea Trials
On November 23, 2019, Halifax Shipyard has launched initial builder’s sea trials for Canada’s lead Arctic and Offshore Patrol Ship (AOPS), the futu...
HMS Queen Elizabeth in anti-submarine warfare drill with Norwegian frigate
On an unseasonally fine December day in the eastern Atlantic, HMS Queen Elizabeth’s carrier battle group forms up one last time for the camera – ju...
Admiral Kasatonov frigate test fires missiles
The Admiral Kasatonov first serial frigate of project 22350 fired Kalibr and Onix missiles in the White Sea, the Defense Ministry said. The frigate...
The President of the French Republic announces order of 6 patrollers overseas
During the Assises of the maritime economy that took place yesterday in Montpellier, the President of the French Republic has announced the order o...
Damen and VSTEP Simulation partnered to explore innovative new simulation solutions
Damen Shipyards Group and VSTEP Simulation, a leading provider of training simulation technology, have joined forces to establish a laboratory to e...
Russia’s Project 22800 corvette Odintsovo to undergo builders sea trials
The Pella Shipyard in St. Petersburg in northwest Russia has completed the construction of the Project 22800 missile corvette Odintsovo (NATO repor...
Techmodal wins multi-year Royal Navy transformation contract
Techmodal, the Bristol and London based data specialists, have been successful in their bid to deliver positive transformational change in people, ...
Hindustan Shipyard Limited to deliver India’s first missile tracking ship
India's first missile tracking ship being built at Hindustan Shipyard Limited is in an advanced stage of construction. The project’s objective is t...
US Navy awards Block V Virginia-class submarine contract to General Dynamics
The Naval Sea Systems Command awarded a nine-ship -- eight with Virginia Payload Module (VPM) -- Block V contract to General Dynamics Electric Boat...
Northern Fleet rescue ship Igor Belousov to participate in joint Russian-Vietnamese exercise
Today, Northern Fleet rescue ship Igor Belousov, which left Vladivostok on November 22, arrived at Cam Ranh port with a business call. The ship wil...
Royal Australian Navy tests shallow water mine countermeasures
The Royal Australian Navy’s premier international mine countermeasure exercise recently came to an end at Fleet Base West, Rockingham in Western Au...
China Tests New Undersea Vehicle for Marine Environment Monitoring
In November the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced that it had performed a 37-day trial in the South China Sea with the indigenously devel...
General Dynamics Wins $22.2B For US Navy's Virginia-Class Submarines
General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp. (GDEB), Groton, Connecticut, is awarded a $22,209,893,409 fixed-price-incentive, multi-year modification to pr...
Dutch to join French-led mission in Strait of Hormuz with frigate
The Dutch government has announced on 29th November that it would contribute De Ruyter (F804) frigate to the European-led mission in the Strait of ...
Indian Navy to acquire 6 more P-8I maritime aircraft
The defence ministry on Thursday approved the procurement of 6 Boeing P8I maritime patrol aircraft, indigenous development of airborne warning and ...