Navy News
Indian Navy to induct second Scorpene sub by early May
The Indian Navy is scheduled to induct its second Scorpene-class submarine, the INS Khanderi, by early May, according to a defense source. As for t...
US Navy to name DDG130 after Medal of Honor William Charette
A Medal of Honor recipient from Michigan will have a guided-missile destroyer named after him, the United States Navy announced on Monday 18th of M...
Russian USC says aircraft carrier overhaul could be delayed
The overhauled Admiral Kuznetsov aircraft carrier of Project 11435 is to be handed over to the Navy in 2021, but a three-four month delay is possib...
China to develop new island cities in the South China Sea
China has plans to develop a new island city in the disputed waters of the South China Sea, in spite of the growing international concern and US cr...
Anglo-French FC/ASW missile programme achieved key review
Two years into the FC/ASW (Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon) Concept Phase, MBDA announced on March 19 the successful achievement of its “Key Review”...
Russian Kazan SSGN to test fire Tsirkon missile in 2020
The Russian Navy's Kazan SSGN of Project 885M will for the first time test fire the latest Russian hypersonic Tsirkon missile in 2020, a source in ...
US Navy ordered thousands of APKWS kits from BAE Systems
The combat-proven Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS®) kits transform standard 2.75” (70mm) Hydra rockets into guided munitions that prov...
Russia to change its nuclear submarine crew training methods
Russian MoD decided to change the training system of the crews of the latest Borey-A-class SSBN of project 955A and Yasen-M-class SSGN of project 8...
US Navy teamed up with commercial shipping in the Gulf of Aden
US Navy 5th Fleet’s Task Force 55 and commercial shipping industry representatives joined forces recently to complete exercise Lucky Mariner 19, in...
Indian Navy maintains deterrent presence in Arabian Sea
After the February 14 Pulwama terror attack, the Indian Navy had to cut short a leading exercise in the Indian Ocean (the Theatre Level Operational...
Royal Navy to build three support ships for its aircraft carriers
A new batch of vessels forming naval sidearm of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary are required to supply both UK’s aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth a...
Iran deployed its 61st naval group in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait
During the beginning of March 2019, Iran decided to dispatch its 61st naval group (consisting of the Sabalan frigate and the Bandar Abbas logistica...
Russian anti-submarine ships take part to exercises in Barents Sea
Project 1124M small anti-submarine ships - the Yunga, the Brest and the Snezhnogorsk - of the Kola Flotilla of the Northern Fleet are learning to s...
Russia designs various models of the Filin optical blinder
Filin optical disturbance station can blind the adversary at a distance of two kilometers and deny him a chance of precision fire at a warship. Int...
Shortlist of the Type 31e frigate competitors for the UK
Team Leander (BAE Systems and Cammell Laird), Babcock’s Team31 (Babcock with BMT and Thales), and Atlas Elektronik UK in association with Thyssenkr...
Russia to test-launch Zircon missile from a frigate at the end of 2019
Russian hypersonic missile, the Zircon, will for the first time be launched from a military vessel at the end of 2019, a source in the Russian mili...
New US class of Towing, Salvage and Rescue ship named Navajo
Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Richard V. Spencer has announced the new class of Towing, Salvage, and Rescue ships will be named "Navajo" in honor ...
Belgium chooses French consortium Naval Group and ECA Robotics for its mine hunters
The Belgian government has made a decision for the replacement of the Navy’s mine hunters. Didier Reynders, Minister of Defense, announced that the...
US Navy awards Raytheon $402 million contract for SPY-6 radars
Raytheon Co., Integrated Defense Systems, Marlborough, Massachusetts, is awarded a $402,658,015 fixed-price-incentive (firm target) modification to...
France: iXblue Gaps acoustic positioning system selected for mine warfare
The French DGA Naval Engineering Department (DGA/TN), an entity specializing in mine warfare experiments, has selected the iXblue Gaps acoustic pos...