Navy News
USS Preble completed cooperative deployment with HMAS Melbourne
The U.S. Navy Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG 88) completed a cooperative deployment with the Royal Australian Navy Ad...
Naval Group is the new industrial investor of IRT b-com
Naval Group has just joined b<>com (or IRT b-com), a European innovation centre based in France. This partnership brings together the Europea...
Russian Novorossiysk Black Sea base facilities to be operational in 2019
The facilities of the Novorossiysk Black Sea base will become operational before the end of 2019, the Russian Defense Ministry said. This naval bas...
Russian Black Sea Fleet operates new scout vessel of Project 18280
The Russian Black Sea fleet received the Ivan Khurs reconnaissance ship of project 18280 in 2018. It was built by Severnaya verf Shipyard in St. Pe...
General Dynamics Electric Boat awarded contract for sub missile tubes
The US Navy has awarded General Dynamics Electric Boat, Groton, Connecticut, a $US 269 million cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to previously award...
Xi Jinping calls for building maritime community with shared future
Today, on April 23, Chinese President Xi Jinping called for concerted efforts to safeguard maritime peace and build a maritime community with a sha...
Russian frigate Admiral Gorshkov is attending the 70th anniversary of the PLA Navy
Today, on April 23, begin the celebrations of the 70th anniversary of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN). 20 foreign countries are sc...
Chinese armed forces naval parade for the 70th founding anniversary PLA Navy
Chinese armed forces have announced a four-day celebration in the port city of Qingdao, Shandong Province, for the 70th founding anniversary of the...
Russian Northern Fleet to equal military district in status
The Russian Defense Ministry wants to change the status of the united strategic Northern fleet command. It will develop into an independent militar...
Il-38 crews of Russian Pacific Fleet train to search subs in the Arctic
Il-38 aircraft of an anti-submarine squadron have trained to search for and track the conditional adversary’s submarines in the Arctic zone of the ...
First Littoral Mission Ship of the Malaysian Navy launched in China
China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC), has launched the first of a new class of four Royal Malaysian Navy littoral mission ships (LMS).
U.S., France and UK Navies completed Artemis Trident 19 exercise
France’s Marine Nationale, the United Kingdom’s Royal Navy and the U.S. Navy completed the U.S. 5th Fleet mine countermeasures exercise Artemis Tri...
Russian divers of Sevastopol training centre test various types of diving gear
Diving students of the Sevastopol subsidiary of the unified training centre of the Russian Navy have got down to practical dives in various types o...
China to develop new engine for carrier-based stealth fighter jets
Chinese designers and engineers teamed up to study, develop and test a new turbofan engine for the Chinese carrier-based stealth fighter jets, the ...
Russian Northern Fleet landing ships trained to lay mines in Barents Sea
A mine-laying group of the Russian Northern Fleet has sailed into the Barents Sea to drill mine-laying operations at the fleet’s see ranges. The gr...
Royal Thai Navy and Russian Pacific Fleet held joint drills in Sea of Japan
The frigate Bangpakong and the frigate Naresuan of the Royal Thai Navy have ended their unofficial visit to Vladivostok, the first in 15 years, the...
FREMM Alsace has been launched by Naval Group
The frigate “Alsace” was launched on April 18 off the Naval Group's shipyard of Lorient. It is the ninth of a series of 10 vessels of the FREMM pro...
MAURIC: last Patrol Boat VGC 28 has been delivered to the French customers
Since 2007, SOCARENAM and MAURIC are involved in the design and construction of vessels ordered by the French Customs: 2 units of 44 m Offshore Pat...
US Navy ordered 24 Hawkeye E-2D aircraft
On April 11, the US DoD finalised the order of 24 E-2D Advanced Hawkeye and awarded Northrop Grumman a $US 3.4 billion contract for the procurement...
Russia: four submarines and two cruisers to be scrapped by 2021
Two heavy nuclear cruisers of project 1144 - the Admiral Ushakov and the Admiral Lazarev, and four nuclear submarines - the Daniil Moskovsky K-448,...