RCN frigate, supply vessel buzzed by Chinese fighters in Taiwan Strait
| 2019
Last week, a frigate and a supply vessel of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) have been buzzed by two Chinese fighters as the warships were transiting ...
Russia put Project 133RA hydrofoil cruise missile gunboat on international market
| 2019
Russia is offering the world’s first hydrofoil gunboat armed with sea-launched cruise missiles to prospective buyers on the international naval har...
New icebreakers to integrate Russian Navy fleet
| 2019
The active Russian construction of an icebreaker fleet is often explained by purely commercial interests. Naturally, the Northern Sea Route can yie...
Royal Navy signs contract with QinetiQ for gunnery training
| 2019
On June 27, QinetiQ signed a 5-year contract with the Royal Navy for the introduction of a dedicated training variant of the QinetiQ's Pointer Syst...
USS Billings, US Navy new warship, struck commercial ship in Canada
| 2019
Earlier this week, USS Billings, a new littoral combat ship (LCS) of the U.S. Navy, collided with a commercial vessel while leaving the port of Mon...
Royal Navy HMS Forth shadowed Russian Navy Vasily Bykov through English Channel
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UK Royal Navy warship HMS Forth had to shadow the Russian patrol vessel Vasily Bykov as it was going through the English Channel on June 27.
Babcock completes Type 26 Frigate air weapons handling system testing
| 2019
Babcock International has successfully completed Factory Acceptance Testing (FAT) of the Air Weapons Handling System (AWHS) for the Type 26 Frigate...
Royal Navy and Royal Marines training with Baltic armed forces
| 2019
The Royal Navy and Royal Marines are set to train with armed forces from former USSR countries as part of its commitment to protecting the Baltic s...
L3 awarded contract for Battle Force Tactical Network for US Navy
| 2019
L3 Systems Co. has been awarded an estimated $US 41 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, firm-fixed-price, cost-plus fixed-fee contract...
USS Indianapolis (LCS 17) completed acceptance trials
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Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 17, the future USS Indianapolis, completed acceptance trials in Lake Michigan, Lockheed Martin said in a June 26 release...
Intermarine UK completed pontoon for new aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy
| 2019
Maritime engineering specialist Intermarine UK has recently completed the building of the pontoon of the future aircraft carriers of the Royal Navy.
Ultra Electronics to supply TR-343 sonar transducers chipsets for US Navy
| 2019
Ultra Electronics Ocean Systems has been awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity, $US 47 million contract for the deliv...
Royal Navy frigate HMS Northumberland tested Sea Ceptor missile system
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The UK Royal Navy Type 23 frigate, HMS Northumberland used its Sea Ceptor missile system to shoot down drones in a unique test off the northwest co...
BAE Systems to provide engineering and support for US Navy C5ISR systems
| 2019
The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a five-year, $US 90 million indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract to modernise and maintain C5ISR ...
US Navy awarded Lockheed Martin modular masts contract for Virginia-class subs
| 2019
On June 24, Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, a branch of Lockheed Martin, has been awarded a $US 16 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, firm-fi...
USS Wasp of the US Navy arrived in Sydney prior to Talisman Sabre 2019
| 2019
The U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship USS Wasp (LHD 1) along with the embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) arrived in Sydney, Australia, f...
US Marine Corps awarded BAE Systems contract to develop ACV mission variants
| 2019
The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded BAE Systems a contract to develop two variants of the Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV) and manufacture one of them.
Canadian warship made rare patrol through the Taiwan Strait
| 2019
As tensions between Canada and China rise, Frigate HMCS Regina of the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) transited through the Taiwan Strait and patrolled t...
Project 21980 boat set afloat for the Russian Navy in Rybinsk
| 2019
Vympel Shipyard of Kalashnikov Group recently floated a Grachonok-class special designation boat of project 21980 destined for the Russian Navy, Ro...
US Navy to christen future destroyer USS Daniel Inouye on June 22
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The U.S. Navy will christen its newest Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer, the future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118), during a 10 a.m. cerem...