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Posted: over 2 years ago

Saab inks $116M deal for mid-life upgrade of Swedish Navy’s Gotland-class submarine

Saab has signed a contract with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for the mid-life u...

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  • Vessels
Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: over 2 years ago

Royal Navy-led task force trials solar and wind-powered drones

Solar and wind-powered drones have been tested in the Arabian Gulf by a Royal Navy-led task force to...

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  • Operations
Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: over 2 years ago

Boeing starts construction on New Zealand’s first P-8A aircraft

Aerospace company Boeing has laid the keel beam for New Zealand’s first P-8A maritime patrol aircraf...

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  • Vessels
Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: over 2 years ago

UK to greenify Type 26 frigate fleet to boost global presence

Royal Navy’s Type 26 frigates HMS Glasgow and its seven sister vessels are being fitted with s...

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  • Vessels
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Indian Coast Guard commissions new OPV ICGS Saksham

The Indian Coast Guard has commissioned the fifth warship in the series of 105-meter long offshore p...

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  • Vessels
Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: over 2 years ago

Navantia, Kongsberg join forces to support Norwegian Navy’s F-310 frigates

Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace (Kongsberg) and Navantia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding...

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  • Vessels
Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: over 2 years ago

Naval Group, Icarus Swarms to develop drone swarm solutions for navies

Naval Group and the start-up Icarus Swarms, part of Dronisos, have signed a Memorandum of Understand...

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  • Equipment & technology
Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: over 2 years ago

Argentine Navy’s final OPV ARA CL Cordero completes sea trials

The last of the four offshore patrol vessels (OPV 87), ARA Contraalmirante Cordero, which was built ...

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  • Vessels
Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: over 2 years ago

HII delivers 12th San Antonio-class LPD to US Navy

The US Navy accepted delivery of the future USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28), the 12th San Antonio class...

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  • Vessels
Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: over 2 years ago

Keel laid for German Navy’s last K130 corvette

German company Naval Vessels Lürssen Group (NVL Group) has hosted a keel-laying ceremony for the Ger...

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  • Vessels
Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: over 2 years ago

UK plans to test laser weapon on Type 23 frigate for the first time

The Royal Navy plans to test a laser weapon for the first time onboard a Type 23 frigate, which will...

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  • Vessels
Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: over 2 years ago

Norway’s patrol aircraft tracks Russian warships near NATO’s Arctic exercise

The Norwegian maritime patrol aircraft P-3C Orion identified several Russian naval vessels sailing i...

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  • Operations
Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: over 2 years ago

Poles set sights on three new minehunters to boost naval fleet

Poland plans to purchase three more Kormoran II-class minehunters this year, the country’s Min...

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  • Vessels
Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: over 2 years ago

Ukraine says Russian naval forces fired “huge amount of ammunition” at Odessa coast

The Russian Navy warships have fired missiles at coastal areas in the Odessa region, according to An...

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  • Operations
Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: over 2 years ago

Babcock to conduct upgrade work on Ireland’s two inshore patrol vessels

Babcock has teamed up with the New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) to conduct maintenance and upgrade w...

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  • Operations
Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: over 2 years ago

Survey ship, which Royal Navy plans to retire soon, breaks record on Atlantic deployment

Veteran survey ship HMS Scott has returned to Plymouth after a record-breaking nine-month stint in t...

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  • Vessels
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Posted: over 2 years ago

Royal IHC wraps up repair work on Dutch Navy’s OPV HNLMS Groningen

Royal IHC has revealed that Royal Netherlands Navy’s offshore patrol vessel HNLMS Groningen fo...

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  • Vessels
Posted: over 2 years ago
Posted: over 2 years ago

US, JMSDF conduct torpedo training exercise in Japanese waters

Aircrews from Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 77, HSM 51, and the Japan Maritime Self-Defe...

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  • Operations
Posted: over 2 years ago