Navy News
Finnish Defence Forces Choose KONGSBERG Naval Sonars for SQ2000 Mid-Life Upgrade
Kongsberg Maritime has been awarded a contract by Finnish Defence Forces (FDF) to deliver ST2400 VDS (Variable Depth Sonar) upgrades to the SQ2000M...
BAE Systems to Provide Additional Payload Tubes for Block V Virginia-class Subs
BAE Systems has received a contract to produce payload tubes for two of the U.S. Navy’s new Virginia-class submarines to support increased firepowe...
Video: Belgian Navy Frigate Louise Marie Fires Harpoon Missile for the 1st Time
The Belgian Navy (Marinecomponent/Composante marine) frigate Louise-Marie fired a Harpoon anti-ship missile for the first time on Wednesday, May 30...
1st UNPAV High-Speed Vessel for Italian Navy Special Forces Launched
The first of two UNPAV (Unità Polivalente ad Alta Velocità or high-speed multi-purpose units) was launched on May 26 at the Intermarine shipyard in...
Russian Navy to Upgrade its Project 21631 Buyan-class Corvettes
The Buyan-class corvettes of project 21631 are to be upgraded with new radio-technical arms and air defense, head of the shipbuilding department of...
GE Pitching LM2500 Gas Turbine for Canada’s Surface Combatant Program
GE Aviation’s marine gas turbines are the ideal solution for the Royal Canadian Navy’s next generation surface combatant program, GE Marine reporte...
Second Project 22100 Okean-class patrol craft launched for Russian Coast Guard
A launch ceremony was held at the Gorky shipyard in Zelenodolsk to float the Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky second serial coast guard ship of project 221...
Thales BAE Systems & CGI to offer EW Force Protection to the Royal Navy
Thales, BAE Systems and CGI have announced a strategic teaming agreement that will see the three companies bring together their collective expertis...
Two More Type 054A Frigates from China for Pakistan Navy
A contract for the acquisition of two additional Type 054A Frigates for Pakistan Navy was signed with M/s China Shipbuilding Trading Company Ltd (C...
MQ-4C Triton High Altitude Long Endurance UAS Joins U.S. Navy Fleet
Northrop Grumman Corp. joined the U.S. Navy in officially welcoming the MQ-4C Triton unmanned aircraft system to the fleet with a ceremony on May 3...
Buyan-M Corvette Vyshny Volochyok Joins Russia's Black Sea Fleet
The ‘Vyshny Volochyok’ Project 21631 guided missile corvette (NATO reporting name: Buyan-M) has officially joined the Black Sea Fleet (ChF) of the ...
Saab-Damen Unveiled their Walrus-class Submarine Replacement Design
In an exclusive interview with the Dutch newspaper ‘Telegraaf’ on June 1st, the foremen of Saab and Damen showed an initial sketch of the new subma...
Hellenic Navy: RFI for the procurement of heavyweight torpedoes
The Hellenic Navy issued on the 25th of May a request for information for the procurement of heavyweight torpedoes for its Type 214 and the upgrade...
Singapore and India Reaffirm Navy Cooperation
Prime Minister (PM) Lee Hsien Loong and Indian PM Narendra Modi witnessed the exchange of a new Implementing Arrangement (IA) between the Republic ...
U.S. Navy Selects Raytheon & Kongsberg NSM for Over-The-Horizon Weapon System
The winner of the U.S. Navy Over-The-Horizon Weapon System (OTH WS) competition is the Naval Strike Missile (NSM) by Raytheon and its Norwegian par...
Video: Future USS Sioux City (LCS 11) Completes Acceptance Trials
Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) 11, the future USS SIOUX CITY, completed Acceptance Trials in the waters of Lake Michigan. LCS 11 is the sixth Freedom-v...
Babcock Team 31 Launches Arrowhead 140 Design for UK Type 31e Competition
Babcock Team 31 has today unveiled Arrowhead 140 as its design for the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) new £1.25 billion Type 31e general purpose li...
Second trial success for MBDA’s Sea Venom/ANL missile
MBDA’s Sea Venom/ANL missile has successfully completed its second development firing from a French Defence Procurement Agency (DGA – Direction Gén...
KADEX 2018: UAC Showcased Maritime Patrol Variant of Il-114
Russia's United Aircraft Corporation (UAC) has unveiled the Ilyushin Il-114MP maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) based on the Il-114-300 airlifter duri...
MBDA' Sea Ceptor missile system enters service with Royal Navy
The Sea Ceptor missile system that will protect the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carriers has officially entered service, Defence Secretary Gavin Will...
