Navy News
Baltic Sea mine warfare exercises Open Spirit concluded in Lithuania
The Lithuanian-led exercises Open Spirit 2019 recently concluded, on May 16, after two weeks of manoeuvers. This exercise is an international marit...
Iranian Navy to send 62nd Fleet in the Gulf of Aden to int'l waters
The Iranian Navy plans to dispatch the 62nd flotilla of warships to free waters in the next few days to protect the country's cargo ships and oil t...
HHI launches first José Rizal-class frigate for the Philippine Navy
South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has recently launched the first José Rizal-class frigate on order for the Philippine Navy, ...
Taiwan Navy holds biggest exercises in five years
Taiwan's Navy held its largest maritime military drills in five years on Wednesday, May 22, off Taiwan. These exercises are scheduled to end on May...
US Navy eyes additional combat power for the Littoral Combat Ships
Shipbuilders are studying how to add additional combat power, through combat upgrades or additional combat systems, to the U.S. Navy's Littoral Com...
Manufacturing of engines for next batch of Type 26 frigates will begin in 2020
Manufacturing of engines for the next batch of Type 26 frigates will begin in January 2020 at the General Electric Warwickshire site.
Royal Navy HMS Defender demonstrates its power with missile firing
In a burst of fire and smoke, Royal Navy warship HMS Defender has tested her world-beating missile system off the coast of Scotland. Blasting from ...
Russia to set latest minesweeper of Project 12700 afloat on May 30
The Project 12700 third advanced minesweeper Vladimir Yemelyanov will be floated out at the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard in St. Petersburg on May 30, a N...
Indian and Myanmar navies started their annual coordinated patrol
Indian and Myanmar navies have started their annual maritime coordinated patrol, also called CORPAT, on May 20. This joint exercise will end on May...
Belgian MoD notifies Belgium Naval and Robotics the supply contract for 12 minehunters
Today, on May 22, the Belgium Naval & Robotics consortium, composed of Naval Group and ECA Group, was awarded the contract to supply twelve min...
Babcock completed first maintenance period on HMS Queen Elizabeth
Babcock has completed the first docking and maintenance period on the Royal Navy aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth at its Rosyth site. The carri...
US Navy Mk38 gun systems to gain co-axial small-caliber machine gun
The U.S. Navy is installing a co-axial 7.62 mm machine gun on the mounts of its Mk38 chain gun systems, a Northrop Grumman official recently stated.
Indian Navy performed cooperative engagement firing MRSAM
The Indian Navy successfully conducted its first cooperative engagement firing the Medium-Range Surface-to-Air Missile (MRSAM). This test-firing ex...
Royal Navy Special Forces join US carrier strike group near Iran
The Royal Navy Special Boat Service (SBS, the Royal Navy equivalent of the SAS) has apparently joined the US carrier strike group currently deploye...
First corvette launched for Pakistan Navy by Damen Shipyard
Recently, the launching ceremony of the first state of the art 2,300 tonnes corvette for the Pakistan Navy was held in Galati, Romania, by Damen Sh...
Hellenic Navy received first modernised P-3B Orion maritime patrol aircraft
Recently, the Greek Ministry of Defence told in an official statement that the Hellenic Navy had received its first modernised P-3B Orion maritime ...
Russian Navy Project 11711 warships to accommodate speedboats
New big amphibious assault ships of project 11711 will be able to transport speedboats of projects 03160 and 02510. Besides, they will carry helico...
U.S. and Japanese warships deployed in the Strait of Malacca
On May 18, 2019, the U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS William P. Lawrence (DDG 110), along with the Japan Maritime Self-D...
Lockheed Martin to soon deliver DCS 1 to the USSOCOM
Lockheed Martin is on contract with USSOCOM for the production of Dry Combat Submersible (DCS) 1, DCS 2, and DCS 3. “The contract delivery date of ...
Raytheon awarded contract to upgrade AN/AQS-20 mine-hunting sonar for US Navy
Counter-mine experts at the Raytheon Company will overhaul, repair, and upgrade the U.S. Navy AN/AQS-20 towed mine-hunting sonar under terms of a $...