Navy News
UK MoD awards BAE Systems £2.4bn for Royal Navy Submarine Programmes
BAE Systems has been awarded a £1.5bn contract for delivery of the seventh Astute class submarine and a further £900m for the next phase of the Dre...
Russian Project 22160 Corvettes to be fitted with BPV-500 VTOL UAVs
Russian Project 22160 corvettes will be fitted with unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) for searching for submarines, and surveillance of surface vessel...
South Korea's HHIC Launched V-22 Capable LPH Marado for ROK Navy
The South Korean defense procurement agency (DAPA), Republic of Korea Navy (ROK Navy) and local shipyard Hanjin Heavy Industries and Construction (...
Frigate Admiral Makarov to join Russia’s Black Sea Fleet in 3rd quarter
The third Project 11356 frigate, ‘Admiral Makarov’, (NATO reporting name: Krivak V) will arrive at its Black Sea Fleet permanent base in the third ...
USS George H.W. Bush Conducts Flight Ops With French Navy
The wing of a French Rafale Marine crests the horizon, on glidescope to be the first French navy (Marine Nationale) fighter jet to touch down as pa...
Video: China's First Home-Built Aircraft Carrier Started Sea Trials
China's first home-built aircraft carrier, known as the Type 002, set out from a dock of Dalian Shipyard, northeast China's Liaoning Province, for ...
U.S. Navy & GDEB Laid Keel of Future USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN 795)
The U.S. Navy held a keel laying ceremony for the Virginia-class submarine Pre-Commissioning Unit Hyman G. Rickover (SSN 795) at General Dynamics E...
India interested in Russian Project 11661 Gepard-class frigates
Moscow and New Delhi have started consultations on the potential construction of frigates for India on the basis of the Russian Project 11661 Gepar...
Z-18 Helicopter Tested aboard China's Type 002 Aircraft Carrier
A Z-18 helicopter (in VIP configuration) landed and took off from China's first domestically developed aircraft carrier for the first time on Satur...
U.S. Navy Over-The-Horizon Weapon System Selection Expected for June
The U.S. Navy is expected to announce the winner of its Over-The-Horizon Weapon System (OTH WS) competition by the end of June. The information com...
Frigate Admiral Gorshkov arrives in northwest Russia to continue state trials
The Project 22350 frigate Admiral Gorshkov has arrived in Severomorsk in northwest Russia to continue its state trials, the FlotProm online media o...
Boeing Starts Service-Life Modification of 1st U.S. Navy Super Hornet
Boeing inducted the first F/A-18 into the Service Life Modification program, which will modernize and extend the life of the U.S. Navy Super Hornet...
First Project 22800 Karakurt-class Corvette Uragan to Start Trials in mid-May
The first Project 22800 Karakurt-class corvette Uragan will start its shipbuilders trials in Lake Ladoga in mid-May, Chief of the Russian Navy’s Sh...
Sea Fire digital radar for FTI frigate programme enters production
Thales is pleased to announce that the first Sea Fire radar for the French Navy’s FTI future medium-size frigates programme is now in production. T...
India`s Larsen & Toubro develops inclined launcher for BRAHMOS missile
India's Larsen & Toubro (L&T) contractor has developed a prototype of an inclined launcher for the PJ-10 BRAHMOS cruise missile, according ...
U.S. Navy Orders Thousands of Additional BAE Systems APKWS Laser-guided Rockets
The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a $175 million contract for more than 7,000 cost-efficient Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS©) las...
Pictures: 1st Phase of French Navy Chesapeake Deployment in the United States
Since early April, nearly 350 French Navy sailors and their aircraft are deployed in the Norfolk area, home of the Carrier Air Wing 8. As the first...
Russia’s LST Landing Ship Ivan Gren Completes Acceptance Sea Trials
Russia’s Project 11711 large amphibious assault ship Ivan Gren built by the Yantar Shipyard in west Russia has completed its sea trials and returne...
HII Started Fabrication of the First Flight III Arleigh Burke-class Destroyer Jack H. Lucas
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division officially started fabrication of the Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) destroyer Jac...
German Navy to Field AeroVironment Puma UAS with Mantis i45 Sensor
The German Navy has acquired the AeroVironment Puma maritime unmanned aircraft system. The Puma systems will include the Mantis i45 sensor and pock...