Navy News
Fincantieri launches LHD Trieste for the Italian Navy
The launching ceremony of the multipurpose amphibious unit (LHD or Landing Helicopter Dock) “Trieste” took place today at the Fincantieri shipyard ...
Taiwan builds missile corvettes and minelayers to enter service in 2021-2025
Taiwan recently increased its domestic defence programme (on Friday, May 24) by beginning to build three Tuo Chiang-class missile corvettes and fou...
Russian Mordovia landing ship to begin overhaul in late 2019
The Mordovia air-cushioned landing ship of project 21322 will begin scheduled overhaul in the second half of 2019, a Navy source told Mil.Press Flo...
PLAN landing ship group conducted exercises in the Yellow Sea
Recently, a landing ship group attached to the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLA Navy, or PLAN) conducted a four-day round-the-clock real combat d...
Canada announced new shipbuilding plans for its Coast Guard
The Canadian government announced a series of coast guard shipbuilding initiatives that includes the construction of 18 new vessels. The Coast Guar...
US Navy orders 23 LRIP JPALS landing systems from Raytheon
The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon of Fullerton, Calif., a US$ 234 million, fixed-price-incentive, firm-target contract for the low-rate initial pr...
Russian Black Sea Fleet frigates sail out for exercises
The Admiral Makarov, the Admiral Essen frigates, the Smetlivy and the Pytlivy patrol ships of the Black Sea fleet sailed out for drills, the Southe...
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...