Navy News
Philippine Navy welcomes 'most powerful' warship BRP Conrado Yap
The Philippine Navy welcomed its most powerful warship yet, the Pohang-class corvette BRP Conrado Yap (PS-39), with an official ceremony at the Man...
Australia to join US in Gulf maritime security mission
Australia Navy will join the US-led mission to protect shipping through the Strait of Hormuz amid heightened tensions with Iran, Prime Minister Sco...
Russia’s Gremyashchiy-class corvette enters shipbuilders’ final trials
The Project 20385 missile corvette Gremyashchiy has left the fitting-out quay of the Severnaya Shipyard in northwest Russia and headed for the Ba...
Lithuanian Navy tests communication technologies for maritime security
The Lithuanian Navy has been conducting tests of communication technologies in the Baltic Sea, allowing real-time maritime surveillance by using ...
Joint military exercice with Chinese and Egyptian navies
On Monday, the guided-missile destroyer Xi'an (Hull 153) attached to the 32nd escort taskforce of the Chinese PLA Navy conducted a joint exercise...
BAE Systems 57Mk3 Naval Gun for Indonesian Navy’s KCR-60 Fast Attack Vessel
The Indonesian Navy has selected BAE Systems’ Bofors 57 Mk3 naval gun system for the country’s KCR-60 fast-attack vessel program. The initi...
TELEDYNE awarded $22 million contract for autonomous underwater vehicles
Teledyne Instruments has received a contract from the US Naval Undersea Warfare Center to provide autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) to U.S. Nav...
US Navy completes refitting USS Ohio guided missile submarine
Fully refreshed after more than two years of refitting, the US Navy’s oldest guided-missile submarine, USS Ohio (SSGN 726), is once again ready to ...
Enterprise air surveillance radar successfully tracks first targets during tests
Raytheon Company and the US Navy completed the first system-level tests of SPY-6(V)2, the Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar, at the Surface Combat ...
Completed operations for U.S. Navy mine countermeasures ships in Arabian Gulf
The mine countermeasures ships USS Sentry (MCM 3), USS Devastator (MCM 6), USS Gladiator (MCM 11), and USS Dextrous (MCM 13) of United States compl...
Bahrain to join U.S.-led military coalition to safeguard waters off Iran and Yemen
During the visit of the Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, chief of U.S. Central Command (CENTCOM) to the Bahraini capital Manama on Monday, August 2019, Bahra...
Australian Navy HMAS Hobart III destroyer has fired RIM-66 Standard Missile 2 during exercice
HMAS Hobart (III) has become the first Hobart class Guided Missile Destroyer of Australian Navy to fire a missile (RIM-66 Standard Missile 2) in Au...
Russia releases video first trial of new Russian submarine Improved Kilo-class Petropavlovsk-Kamtchatski
Russia has released a video, on August 16, 2019, showing the first trial test with the Project 636.3 “Improved Kilo-class aka "Petropavlovsk-Kamtch...
Taiwan confirms the commissioning of three Tuo Chiang-class Corvettes
The Tuo Chiang-class corvette is a Taiwanese-designed class of fast and stealthy multi-mission corvettes built for the Republic of China (Taiwan) N...
Japan has launched DDG HAGURO Maya-class guided-missile destroyer
On July 17th, 2019, the naming and launching ceremony for the DDG HAGURO was held at Yokohama Shipyard Isogo Works, Japan Marine United Corp. The J...
UK and Norway reinforce North Atlantic security
Defence Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan hosted Norwegian State Secretary Tone Skogen to discuss NATO and the UK’s role in the North Atlantic. The UK ...
Company JFD acquires Ortega Submersibles
JFD, underwater capability provider serving the commercial and defence diving markets, and part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has announced its acq...
Hensoldt delivers naval radar to Norwegian Coast Guard
The sensor solutions provider Hensoldt will equip the Norwegian Coast Guard vessel “Svalbard” with the latest version of its TRS-3D naval radar and...
First steel was cut today for HMS Cardiff second Type 26 anti-submarine frigate
The first steel was cut for HMS Cardiff, the second ship in the Royal Navy’s next generation of Type 26 anti-submarine frigates, August 14, 2019. B...
Royal Navy HMS Kent and HMS Defender deploy on operations
Portsmouth-based warships HMS Kent and HMS Defender today left their homeport to embark on operations to the Gulf and Asia Pacific respectively.