Navy News
US Navy ordered thousands of APKWS kits from BAE Systems
The combat-proven Advanced Precision Kill Weapon System (APKWS®) kits transform standard 2.75” (70mm) Hydra rockets into guided munitions that prov...
Russia to change its nuclear submarine crew training methods
Russian MoD decided to change the training system of the crews of the latest Borey-A-class SSBN of project 955A and Yasen-M-class SSGN of project 8...
US Navy teamed up with commercial shipping in the Gulf of Aden
US Navy 5th Fleet’s Task Force 55 and commercial shipping industry representatives joined forces recently to complete exercise Lucky Mariner 19, in...
Indian Navy maintains deterrent presence in Arabian Sea
After the February 14 Pulwama terror attack, the Indian Navy had to cut short a leading exercise in the Indian Ocean (the Theatre Level Operational...
Royal Navy to build three support ships for its aircraft carriers
A new batch of vessels forming naval sidearm of the Royal Fleet Auxiliary are required to supply both UK’s aircraft carriers, HMS Queen Elizabeth a...
Iran deployed its 61st naval group in the Bab-el-Mandeb Strait
During the beginning of March 2019, Iran decided to dispatch its 61st naval group (consisting of the Sabalan frigate and the Bandar Abbas logistica...
Russian anti-submarine ships take part to exercises in Barents Sea
Project 1124M small anti-submarine ships - the Yunga, the Brest and the Snezhnogorsk - of the Kola Flotilla of the Northern Fleet are learning to s...
Russia designs various models of the Filin optical blinder
Filin optical disturbance station can blind the adversary at a distance of two kilometers and deny him a chance of precision fire at a warship. Int...
Shortlist of the Type 31e frigate competitors for the UK
Team Leander (BAE Systems and Cammell Laird), Babcock’s Team31 (Babcock with BMT and Thales), and Atlas Elektronik UK in association with Thyssenkr...
Russia to test-launch Zircon missile from a frigate at the end of 2019
Russian hypersonic missile, the Zircon, will for the first time be launched from a military vessel at the end of 2019, a source in the Russian mili...
New US class of Towing, Salvage and Rescue ship named Navajo
Secretary of the Navy (SECNAV) Richard V. Spencer has announced the new class of Towing, Salvage, and Rescue ships will be named "Navajo" in honor ...
Belgium chooses French consortium Naval Group and ECA Robotics for its mine hunters
The Belgian government has made a decision for the replacement of the Navy’s mine hunters. Didier Reynders, Minister of Defense, announced that the...
US Navy awards Raytheon $402 million contract for SPY-6 radars
Raytheon Co., Integrated Defense Systems, Marlborough, Massachusetts, is awarded a $402,658,015 fixed-price-incentive (firm target) modification to...
France: iXblue Gaps acoustic positioning system selected for mine warfare
The French DGA Naval Engineering Department (DGA/TN), an entity specializing in mine warfare experiments, has selected the iXblue Gaps acoustic pos...
US Navy plans to build an unmanned Ghost Fleet
As the Navy faces more complex threats to its manned ships from Russia and China, the service is moving quickly to field an unmanned “Ghost Fleet” ...
UK, US and Japan to hold anti-submarine warfare exercise in Western Pacific
The Royal Navy, U.S. Navy and Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force are scheduled to start anti-submarine warfare drills on March 14, for only the s...
Russian nuclear powered submarine Knyaz Vladimir ready for sea duty
The crew of the nuclear submarine Knyaz Vladimir, which is to join the Russian Navy by the end of this year, in parallel with the plant and state t...
Nigeria ordered 2 Damen 3307 patrol vessels
Nigeria’s Homeland Integrated Offshore Services of Nigeria (HIOS) has ordered two additional Damen 3307 Patrol Vessels from Damen Shipyards Group.
Russian Pacific Fleet received battalion set of Bastion missile system
The Russian Pacific Fleet has received a new battalion set of the Bastion mobile coastal missile complex under a program of rearmament with modern ...
US Navy wants 5.000 new sailors by fiscal year 2020
The U.S. Navy plans to shed about 3,100 medical personnel in Fiscal Year 2020 while adding 5,000 active duty sailors to staff aviation units and a ...
