Navy News
Video: R.O.K Navy's International Fleet Review in Jeju Island - South Korea
The Republic of Korea Navy's International Fleet Review was held Thursday in waters off Jeju Island with a total of 41 vessels and 24 aircraft from...
France Started EMALS Talks with U.S. for its future PA NG Aircraft Carrier
The French defence procurement agency (DGA) and the French Navy (Marine Nationale) started discussions with the United States regarding Electromagn...
Video: F-35B First Shipborne Rolling Vertical Landing Aboard HMS Queen Elizabeth
The F-35B conducted the first ever shipborne rolling vertical landing (SRVL) this weekend aboard UK’s newest aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth. ...
Russian Gas Turbine for First Project 20386 Corvette to be Supplied in 2020
The first project 20386 corvette "Derzky" (Derzky-class) will receive a gas turbine in the first half of 2020, Severnaya verf shipyard told FlotPro...
Russian Submarine Krasnodar Hides on Ocean Floor during Black Sea Drills
The Krasnodar diesel-electric submarine of project 636.3 was fully deenergized and lied on the seabed in the Black Sea during training, Black Sea f...
U.S. Maritime Administration Issues RFP for National Security Multi-Mission Vessel
The U.S. Maritime Administration (MARAD) released a Request for Proposal (RFP) to solicit for a Vessel Construction Manager (VCM) to deliver a new ...
First Metal 3D Printed Part to be Tested Aboard USS Harry S. Truman
Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) approved the first metal part created by additive manufacturing (AM) for shipboard installation, the command ann...
Russian Navy Artillery Units to Get Uragan-1M MLRS for Coastal Defence
The Russian Navy began to rearm its artillery units in Crimea and Kaliningrad region. They will get long-range multiple launch rocket systems (MLRS...
Russian Navy Rejects Switch to Chinese Engine for Project 22800 Corvettes
The Russian Navy decided to keep domestic M507 diesel engines on Karakurt-class guided missile corvettes of project 22800, FlotProm online publicat...
Safran Signs Submarine Tech Partnership with Australian Companies
Safran is expanding its partnerships, with two Australian companies Advanced Navigation and Thomas Global Systems, to further the development of in...
French Navy Celebrates its 500th SSBN Deterrent Patrol
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) celebrated today the 500th patrol of a nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) at the base of l'Île L...
Russia Using SSGN-Launched Granit Cruise Missiles to Test S-400 Air Defense
Russia started using P-700 Granit (NATO reporting name: SS-N-19 'Shipwreck') supersonic antiship missiles launched from submarines to train S-400 a...
Royal Danish Navy Orders SM-2 Block IIIA for Iver Huitfeldt-class Frigates
The Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization (Danish: Forsvarets Materiel- og Indkøbsstyrelse, FMI) placed an order for Raytheon SM-2 ...
Fincantieri & Leonardo Revamping their Orizzonte Sistemi Navali JV
Leonardo and Fincantieri, as part of the collaborative relationship and the preferred partnership launched in October 2014, have established the gu...
MAURIC & ECA Group unveil OCTOPODA range of MCM motherships carrying unmanned systems
To meet the increasing demand from navies and other professional maritime operators, in 2016 ECA Group and MAURIC joined forces to combine their re...
Euronaval 2018: French Navy set to get its own Cooperative Engagement Capability
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) is set to get its own cooperative engagement capability or CEC. The TSMPF (for "tenue de situation multi-platfor...
USS Wasp & US Marines Conduct DATF Drill in South China Sea
The USS Wasp (LHD 1) Amphibious Ready Group (ARG) with embarked 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) conducted an integrated Defense of the Amphibi...
General Dynamics to Upgrade Canada's Halifax-class Frigate ASW Suite
General Dynamics Mission Systems–Canada was awarded the Underwater Warfare Suite Upgrade (UWSU) contract to upgrade and maintain underwater sensors...
UK MoD awards £1bn Worth of Contracts for Auxiliary Vessels' Support
UK Defence Minister Stuart Andrew has announced that new contracts expected to be worth over £1bn have been signed with British firms to support mi...
New Test Vessel 'Ladoga' Commissioned with Russian Navy
The St. Andrew flag of the Russian Navy has been hoisted on the Ladoga test craft in the port of the town of Lomonosov (the Leningrad region), the ...