Navy News
ESG Conducts OPC Final Critical Design Review for the USCG
Panama City, FL, Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) has successfully conducted its Final Critical Design Review (FCDR) with the United States Coast G...
Kongsberg's NSM to Replace German Navy Frigates' Harpoon Anti-Ship Missiles
At Balt Military Expo 2018, the naval defense exhibition held recently in Gdansk, Poland, Navy Recognition learned from a Kongsberg representative ...
China Launched the 30th (and last ?) Type 054A Frigate for the PLAN
Our colleagues from East Pendulum are reporting that the Huangpu Wenchong Shipyard of the Chinese naval group CSSC launched a Type 054A frigate for...
New Zealand Procuring Four Boeing P-8A Poseidon Maritime Patrol Aircraft
On 9 July 2018, the Acting Prime Minister Winston Peters announced that New Zealand will acquire four Boeing P-8A Poseidon aircraft, and training s...
U.S. Navy Completes 1st MQ-8C Fire Scout Operational Test at Sea
USS Coronado (LCS 4) and Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 1 completed the first comprehensive Initial Operational Test and Evaluation (IOT&...
ESSM Block 2 with Active Seeker Successfully Intercepts Aerial Target
The NATO Seasparrow Project Office recently conducted a successful flight test of the Evolved Seasparrow Missile (ESSM) Block 2, intercepting a BQM...
Expeditionary Fast Transport vessel Burlington (EPF 10) Completes Builder's Trials
The U.S. Navy's tenth Expeditionary Fast Transport vessel, Burlington (EPF 10), successfully completed Builder's Trials, June 29. The week of trial...
Pakistan Navy Procuring 4 MILGEM Type Corvette from Turkey
Nurettin Janikli, the Minister of National Defense of Turkey, reported on July 5, 2018 that the Turkish design and engineering company Savunma Tekn...
Construction of Russian Blue-Water Vessels May Be Postponed Untill 2035
The construction of blue and green-water warships may be postponed until 2035 because of lack of funds, according to the Shipbuilding strategy of t...
Finnish Navy Selects Gabriel Anti-Ship Missiles for Hamina & Squadron 2020 vessels
Minister of Defence Jussi Niinistö authorised the Finnish Defence Forces’ Logistics Command to make an agreement on purchasing Surface-to-Surface M...
Nevskoe Design Bureau Proposing LPD and LHD Designs to Russian Navy
Nevskoe Design Bureau offered the Russian Navy a modular landing helicopter-carrying dock ship (DVKD) with a displacement of close to 15 thousand t...
Norsafe Launches New Fast Rescue & Patrol Boat at Seawork International
Norsafe has carried out extensive research and development in the last few years to develop a new range of robust and safe boats for the Military a...
Balt Military Expo 2018: KTA Unveils Combat System of Future Type 212CD Submarine
At Balt Military Expo 2018, the naval defense exhibition held recently in Gdansk, Poland, KTA Naval Systems was showcasing for the first time two c...
China’s First AIP Submarine Unit Breaks Records
China’s first submarine unit using air-independent propulsion (AIP) technology recently broke a number of records set by the Chinese navy, Science ...
JFD completed 1st phase of Sea Trials for Indian Navy DSRV
JFD, the world leading underwater capability provider serving the commercial and defence markets, and part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has succes...
Belgian Navy Days 2018: Interview with Admiral Wim Robberecht
The 36th Belgian Navy Days were held at the Zeebrugge naval base on June 30th and July 1st 2018. For two days visitors could board several vessels ...
Picture: Russian Navy Latest Patrol Vessel 'Vasily Bykov' Underway
The first picture showing the Russian Navy patrol vessel "Vasily Bykov" underway at speed has finally been released (by a ship spotter in Russia). ...
Kongsberg Gets Contract for Joint Strike Missile JSM Integration on F-35
Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS has signed a contract worth 700M NOK with the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency for JSM test missiles for the ...
U.S. Navy Conducting Integrated Flight Operations with French Navy Once Again
Aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) (and its air wing), is conducting integrated flight operations with French Navy (Marine Nationale) Ra...
Two Type 055 Destroyers for PLAN Launched Together in China
China launched today two Type 055 guided-missile destroyers at a Shipyard in Dalian, Liaoning province. The two 13,000 tons vessel, which were laun...