Navy News
Raytheon wins contract to produce Standard Missile-6 for US Navy
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, is awarded a $1,030,728,427 fixed-price-incentive and cost-plus-fixed-fee multi-year contract for Standa...
Boeing to provide weapons support for Navy and Kuwaiti aircraft
Boeing Aerospace Operations Inc., St. Louis, Missouri, is awarded a not-to-exceed value of $92,280,378 undefinitized contract action. This cost-plu...
Philippines Coast Guard’s most modern ship to arrive in February 2020
The Philippine Coast Guard’s (PCG) newest and largest offshore patrol vessel (OPV) is now officially under the ownership of the country after it fl...
Russian Navy Admiral Kasatonov frigate continues trials in Barents Sea
The Russian Navy Admiral Kasatonov frigate of project 22350 sailed out from Severomorsk to the Barents Sea to continue trials, the Russian Defense ...
Huntington Ingalls has been awarded a planning yard design services contract for nuclear-powered submarines
Huntington Ingalls Industries announced on December 20, 2019, that its Newport News Shipbuilding division has been awarded a planning yard design s...
Raytheon Company will build two additional shipsets of SPY-6 radars for U.S. Navy
Raytheon Company will build two additional shipsets of SPY-6 radars under a $250 million contract with the U.S. Navy. The company is now contracted...
Start of Suffren Barracuda class submarine nuclear reactor by TechnicAtome and Naval Group
After the launch of the Suffren (Barracuda class) nuclear attack submarine, last 12 July 2019, in the presence of the President of the French Repub...
Lockheed Martin awarded a contract to build four MMSC ships for Saudi Arabia
American Company Lockheed Martin was awarded a US$1.96 billion detailed design and construction to build four Multi Mission Surface Combatant ships...
Possible US foreign military sale of support for P-3C Orion anti-submarine aircraft of Argentina
On December 19, 2019, the U.S. State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to Argentina of equipment, supp...
Offshore Patrol Vessel OPV 87 L Adroit becomes A.R.A. Bouchard of Argentina Navy
The Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV 87) L’Adroit adopts the Argentinian flag and becomes the A.R.A. BOUCHARD. The first one of the four OPVs ordered by...
Bangladesh Navy receives two Chinese frigates
Senior Bangladeshi Navy officials received two Chinese Type-053H3 frigates, Jiaxing (Hull 521) and Lianyungang (Hull 522), in Shanghai Jiangnan Shi...
Long-Range Anti-Ship Missile Achieves Operational Capability with Super Hornets
U.S. defence company Lockheed Martin has delivered its first batch of Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles (LRASM) to U.S. Air Force B-1B Lancer long-rang...
Royal Netherlands Navy To Get New Combat Support Ship Zr. Ms Den Helder From Damen
The construction of the new Combat Support Ship (CSS) Zr. Ms Den Helder should start soon. An agreement has been reached between the Dutch MoD and ...
Russian shipbuilders to deliver latest Project 955A nuclear-powered sub to Navy
The Sevmash Shipyard (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) is preparing the Project 955A (Borei-A) nuclear-powered submarine Knyaz Vladimir...
Navantia closes the resistant hull of S81 “Isaac Peral” submarine
Navantia has finalized, in the Cartagena facilities, the closure of the resistant hull of the S-81 ‘Isaac Peral’ submarine for the Spanish Navy, af...
Swedish Navy Combat Boat 90HSM marks its 30th anniversary
This year marks the 30th anniversary of the development in Sweden by FMV of the Combat Boat 90. The latest version is Combat Boat 90HSM with high p...
Merlin helicopters to form strike group with HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Northumberland
The Navy’s premier submarine hunters are much better prepared to defend Britain’s future flagships after a three-month workout in the USA. Merlin h...
Mexican SIGMA Class Frigate ARM Reformer Completes Sea Trials
The Mexican Navy has recently completed Sea Acceptance Tests (SAT) for its multi-purpose frigate DAMEN SIGMA 10514, ARM Reformer (POLA 101). The te...
BAE Systems wins US Navy contract for laser-guided rockets
The American Navy has signed a $2.68 billion IDIQ contract for thousands of combat-proven, low-cost APKWS® Laser-Guided Rockets manufactured by BAE...
IXblue Navigation Solutions Selected For Three New OPV For Argentina
Kership has selected iXblue navigation solutions to equip the three new offshore patrol vessels (OPV 90 type) being built for the Argentine Navy. T...
