Navy News
Dynautics developed new collision avoidance technologies for USVs
Dynautics has announced that it has developed a new range of Collision Avoidance (CA) systems for unmanned surface vessels (USVs). The company has ...
Type 001A aircraft carrier of the PLA Navy in final sea trials
China’s first locally-made aircraft carrier, "Type 001A" headed out on Saturday, May 25, for its final sea trials before its formal induction into ...
Russian surface warships to guide coastal missiles
Russian surface warships will be able to provide guidance to coastal missile complexes. The new capabilities will radically increase Navy potential...
US Navy to group Zumwalt DDGs, LCS test vessels and USVs in Development Squadron
The U.S. Navy established a new unit at Naval Base San Diego on May 22 that will serve as a fount of experimentation for the surface warfare commun...
Huntington Ingalls Industries starts construction of Columbia-class submarines
Huntington Ingalls Industries hosted a ceremonial first-cut-of-steel event today at its Newport News Shipbuilding division to mark the start of adv...
Russian Navy to get five Project 22160 warships by 2023
The Russian Navy will annually receive one corvette of project 22160 up to 2023, Mil.Press FlotProm said quoting an explanatory note to the 2018 an...
China decommissions five vessels of the PLA Hong Kong Garrison
According to the Official Weibo account of PLA Hong Kong Garrison, the officers and sailors assigned to a Navy Ship Group under the PLA Hong Kong G...
US Navy hospital vessel USNS Comfort mission stops announced
The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) will return for another deployment to South America, Central America, and the Caribbean mid-June...
Indian consortium to build six submarines of Project 75(I)
Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL), Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) and Mishra Dhatu Nigam Limited (Midhani) have joined hands to form a cons...
Fincantieri launches LHD Trieste for the Italian Navy
The launching ceremony of the multipurpose amphibious unit (LHD or Landing Helicopter Dock) “Trieste” took place today at the Fincantieri shipyard ...
Taiwan builds missile corvettes and minelayers to enter service in 2021-2025
Taiwan recently increased its domestic defence programme (on Friday, May 24) by beginning to build three Tuo Chiang-class missile corvettes and fou...
Russian Mordovia landing ship to begin overhaul in late 2019
The Mordovia air-cushioned landing ship of project 21322 will begin scheduled overhaul in the second half of 2019, a Navy source told Mil.Press Flo...
PLAN landing ship group conducted exercises in the Yellow Sea
Recently, a landing ship group attached to the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy, or PLAN) conducted a four-day round-the-clock real combat d...
Canada announced new shipbuilding plans for its Coast Guard
The Canadian government announced a series of coast guard shipbuilding initiatives that includes the construction of 18 new vessels. The Coast Guar...
US Navy orders 23 LRIP JPALS landing systems from Raytheon
The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon of Fullerton, Calif., a US$ 234 million, fixed-price-incentive, firm-target contract for the low-rate initial pr...
Russian Black Sea Fleet frigates sail out for exercises
The Admiral Makarov, the Admiral Essen frigates, the Smetlivy and the Pytlivy patrol ships of the Black Sea fleet sailed out for drills, the Southe...
Baltic Sea mine warfare exercises Open Spirit concluded in Lithuania
The Lithuanian-led exercises Open Spirit 2019 recently concluded, on May 16, after two weeks of manoeuvers. This exercise is an international marit...
Iranian Navy to send 62nd Fleet in the Gulf of Aden to int'l waters
The Iranian Navy plans to dispatch the 62nd flotilla of warships to free waters in the next few days to protect the country's cargo ships and oil t...
HHI launches first José Rizal-class frigate for the Philippine Navy
South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has recently launched the first José Rizal-class frigate on order for the Philippine Navy, ...
Taiwan Navy holds biggest exercises in five years
Taiwan's Navy held its largest maritime military drills in five years on Wednesday, May 22, off Taiwan. These exercises are scheduled to end on May...