Navy News
RAF P-8A Maritime Patrol Aircraft to be Known as 'Poseidon MRA Mk.1'
The Royal Air Force announced on its Twitter account that the UK’s new maritime patrol aircraft will be formally known in RAF service as the Poseid...
NH90 NFH Helicopters with Marte ER Anti-ship Missiles for Qatari Navy
Leonardo announced that it has made effective the contract, signed on March 14, 2018, for the supply of 28 NH90 medium twin-engine multirole milita...
P-8A Poseidon MPA Training Commences in South Australia
Minister for Defence, Senator the Hon Marise Payne, and the Minister for Defence Industry, the Hon Christopher Pyne MP, announced the handover of t...
Russian Project 11356 Frigate Admiral Makarov Heading to Black Sea
The project 11356 Admiral Makarov frigate has started a sea passage to the permanent deployment base in the Black Sea. The Admiral Makarov, which c...
Cammell Laird Announces Strong Supply Chain for Type 31e Frigate Bid
Birkenhead-based shipbuilder Cammell Laird has announced it has built a network of more than 2,000 suppliers as it steps up its bid to build a cutt...
Russian Navy to Use UAV for Cruise and Anti-ship Missile Targeting
Forpost UAVs can efficiently guide Kalibr cruise missiles and Yakhont anti-ship missiles onto sea targets. On an exercise at the Baltic Sea such UA...
RAMSES EW Suite Upgrade for Royal Canadian Navy's Halifax-class Frigates
The Canadian department of national defence announced that the Royal Canadian Navy’s Halifax-class frigates will be getting two upgrades related to...
Russia’s Latest Buyan-M Corvette Reinforces Russian Mediterranean Group
The latest guided missile corvette Vyshny Volochek (Buyan-M) is sailing to the Mediterranean Sea to join the Russian naval force at the Syrian coas...
Royal Navy Aircraft Carrier Bound for the United States for F-35B Trials
Royal Navy aircraft carrier, HMS Queen Elizabeth, has departed her home port of Portsmouth, bound for the USA to land fast jets on deck for the ver...
Final French Navy SSBN 'Le Temeraire' Upgraded for M51 SLBM
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) announced that its nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) Le Téméraire, left a dry dock at Brest nav...
Seventh Littoral Mission Vessel 'Dauntless' Launched for Republic of Singapore Navy
ST Engineering’s Marine sector today launched the seventh Littoral Mission Vessel (LMV), Dauntless, designed and built for the Republic of Singapor...
Video: Ukraine Test-Fires Neptun Anti-Ship Cruise Missile
Ukraine armed forces conducted today a test firing of the locally developed Neptun anti-ship cruise missile. The test was attended by Oleksandr Tur...
ROK Navy Considers Adapting Dodko-class LPH for F-35B Aircraft
The Republic of Korea Navy (ROK Navy) is looking to adapt its two Dokdo-class LPHs to deploy the F-35B STOVL aircraft. According to Yonhap News Age...
French Navy Frigate Cassard Escorted U.S. Vessel Through Strait of Hormuz
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) recently announced that the anti-air warfare frigate Cassard was tasked in mid-July to escort the American vesse...
Trinidad and Tobago Procuring Two Austal Cape-class Patrol Boats
Austal Limited (Austal) is pleased to report that the Government of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago (GORTT) has announced its intention to purc...
German Navy Selects Skeldar V-200 VTOL UAV for K130 Corvettes
UMS SKELDAR, the world-class provider of rotary Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) solutions and avionics software has been awarded a procurement contra...
Kaspiysk to Become Main Naval Base of Russia's Caspian Flottila
A full-fledged naval base will be built in Kaspiysk, Russian Defense Minister General Sergei Shoigu has said.
IAI to Supply Barak-8 SAM System for Israeli Navy Saar 6 Corvettes
Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) has entered an agreement to provide advanced defense systems to Israel Navy's Sa'ar-6 corvettes. The systems will...
Russia Needs Four Aircraft Carriers - Krylov State Scientific Center
The Russian Navy needs at least four aircraft carriers, Valery Polovinkin, scientific director of the Krylov State Scientific Center, has said.
Construction of 1st Littoral Mission Ship for Malaysia started in China
Chinese shipyard Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Group (a member of CSIC China Shipbuilding Industry Co.) started construction of the first Littoral ...