Navy News
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 ...
MHI Launched the 11th Soryu-class SSK SS-511 Oryu for the JMSDF
The 11th Soryu-class submarine, SS-511 Oryu, was launched at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries shipyard in Kobe on October 4th. Oryu features one sig...
Raytheon’s layered defense, naval solutions for the world
Gerard Hueber, Raytheon Naval and Area Mission Defense business development vice president, provides insight into the missile systems protecting na...
UK Defence Secretary Announced a New Defence Arctic Strategy
UK's Defence Secretary Gavin Williamson has announced this week a new Defence Arctic Strategy, acknowledging the increasing opportunities and threa...
General Atomics Completes AAG Performance Testing with Propeller Aircraft
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) performance testing has been successfully completed f...
First Steel Cut for Royal Australian Navy OPVs
A steel cutting ceremony took place on Wednesday to start construction of Royal Australian Navy’s new generation of offshore patrol vessels. The fi...
Here is the First Image of the French Navy Next Generation SSBN - SNLE 3G
Navy Recognition saw for the first time an image showing the future nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) of the French Navy (Marine N...
ECA Group Unveils New 'INSPECTOR 120' 12 Meters USV for MCM
ECA Group unveiled a new USV design, the INSPECTOR 120, as a part of its range of robotic and autonomous systems for naval applications, including ...
French Navy Fitting Aster 30 Long Range SAM on its Last Two ASW FREMM Frigates
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) last two FREMM Frigates (in anti-submarine warfare variant) Bretagne (D655) and Normandie (D651) have been modif...
U.S. Navy Orders Ten DDG 51 Flight III Destroyers From BIW and HII
The U.S. Navy awarded two contracts for the DDG 51 fiscal years (FY) 2018 - 2022 multiyear procurement (MYP) for DDG 51 Arleigh Burke class destroy...
USC Eyes Russian Navy Contract for Project 23560 Leader-class Destroyer
The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) hopes to get a contract for the construction of a prospective Russian destroyer, USC CEO Alexey Rakhmanov...