Navy News
Video: China's First Home-Built Aircraft Carrier Started Sea Trials
China's first home-built aircraft carrier, known as the Type 002, set out from a dock of Dalian Shipyard, northeast China's Liaoning Province, for ...
U.S. Navy & GDEB Laid Keel of Future USS Hyman G. Rickover (SSN 795)
The U.S. Navy held a keel laying ceremony for the Virginia-class submarine Pre-Commissioning Unit Hyman G. Rickover (SSN 795) at General Dynamics E...
India interested in Russian Project 11661 Gepard-class frigates
Moscow and New Delhi have started consultations on the potential construction of frigates for India on the basis of the Russian Project 11661 Gepar...
Z-18 Helicopter Tested aboard China's Type 002 Aircraft Carrier
A Z-18 helicopter (in VIP configuration) landed and took off from China's first domestically developed aircraft carrier for the first time on Satur...
U.S. Navy Over-The-Horizon Weapon System Selection Expected for June
The U.S. Navy is expected to announce the winner of its Over-The-Horizon Weapon System (OTH WS) competition by the end of June. The information com...
Frigate Admiral Gorshkov arrives in northwest Russia to continue state trials
The Project 22350 frigate Admiral Gorshkov has arrived in Severomorsk in northwest Russia to continue its state trials, the FlotProm online media o...
Boeing Starts Service-Life Modification of 1st U.S. Navy Super Hornet
Boeing inducted the first F/A-18 into the Service Life Modification program, which will modernize and extend the life of the U.S. Navy Super Hornet...
First Project 22800 Karakurt-class Corvette Uragan to Start Trials in mid-May
The first Project 22800 Karakurt-class corvette Uragan will start its shipbuilders trials in Lake Ladoga in mid-May, Chief of the Russian Navy’s Sh...
Sea Fire digital radar for FTI frigate programme enters production
Thales is pleased to announce that the first Sea Fire radar for the French Navy’s FTI future medium-size frigates programme is now in production. T...
India`s Larsen & Toubro develops inclined launcher for BRAHMOS missile
India's Larsen & Toubro (L&T) contractor has developed a prototype of an inclined launcher for the PJ-10 BRAHMOS cruise missile, according ...
U.S. Navy Orders Thousands of Additional BAE Systems APKWS Laser-guided Rockets
The U.S. Navy has awarded BAE Systems a $175 million contract for more than 7,000 cost-efficient Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS©) las...
Pictures: 1st Phase of French Navy Chesapeake Deployment in the United States
Since early April, nearly 350 French Navy sailors and their aircraft are deployed in the Norfolk area, home of the Carrier Air Wing 8. As the first...
Russia’s LST Landing Ship Ivan Gren Completes Acceptance Sea Trials
Russia’s Project 11711 large amphibious assault ship Ivan Gren built by the Yantar Shipyard in west Russia has completed its sea trials and returne...
HII Started Fabrication of the First Flight III Arleigh Burke-class Destroyer Jack H. Lucas
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division officially started fabrication of the Arleigh Burke-class (DDG 51) destroyer Jac...
German Navy to Field AeroVironment Puma UAS with Mantis i45 Sensor
The German Navy has acquired the AeroVironment Puma maritime unmanned aircraft system. The Puma systems will include the Mantis i45 sensor and pock...
Russia launches Third Project 22800 Corvette Shkval - 1st one with Pantsir-M
The second serial-produced (third overall) Project 22800 Karakurt-class corvette Shkval has been launched at the Pella Shipyard in the Leningrad Re...
First ARCIMS Unmanned Minesweeping System Handed Over to Royal Navy
An autonomous minesweeper system that can safely clear sea lanes of mines has been handed over to the Royal Navy. Following a period of successful ...
U.S. Navy Completes Lightweight Torpedo Defense Mission Module Testing
The Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) Mission Modules (MM) program announced the successful completion of two days of at-sea testing of the AN/SLQ-61 Ligh...
U.S. Navy re-establishing its Second Fleet in North Atlantic
U.S. Navy Chief of Naval Operations, Adm. John Richardson, announced the establishment of U.S. 2nd Fleet during a change of command ceremony for U....
Flight IIA Technology Insertion Destroyer Thomas Hudner Completes Acceptance Trials
The future USS Thomas Hudner (DDG 116) successfully completed acceptance trials May 3 after spending a day underway off the coast of Maine. DDG 116...
