Standing NATO Maritime Group (SNMG) 2 and the US Navy’s Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (HSTCSG) augmented by Italian Navy frigate ITS Alpino (F 594) conducted joint maritime and air defence exercises on July 24 while operating in the Mediterranean Sea.
French Navy’s first Patrouilleur d’Outre-Mer (POM) offshore patrol vessel (OPV), Auguste Benebig, has been conducting sea trials, the navy revealed.
The Royal Navy has unveiled a new testbed ship to support trials of the latest tech and autonomous systems.
Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigate HMS Lancaster has departed Portsmouth Naval Base, marking the completion of a period of maintenance and upgrades delivered by BAE Systems to optimise the ship for upcoming deployments.
STM has delivered the co-light underwater lighting system to the Turkish Navy at Gölcük Naval Shipyard.
UK defence company BAE Systems has signed a five-year contract to support its Artisan radar on the Brazilian Navy’s flagship, the multipurpose aircraft carrier NAM Atlântico.
French tech company iXblue and compatriot defence firm ECA Group have demonstrated subsea asset tracking in the shallow waters of the Baltic Sea in Poland’s Gdynia harbor.
Systems Engineering & Assessment’s (SEA) Naval Systems Integration Process Service (NSIPS) contract has been extended to include support for the configuration management of the combat systems for all Royal Navy in-service submarines.
Spanish shipbuilder Navantia has held a commissioning ceremony for the second of five corvettes being built for the Royal Saudi Navy, Al-Diriyah.
The Royal Marines have completed preparations for operations across the Mediterranean this autumn after intensive amphibious exercises in the Netherlands.
On 20 July, the European Commission announced plans to grant a total EU funding of almost €1.2 billion supporting 61 collaborative defence research and development projects, including projects from the naval defence sector.
A Royal Navy warship, Type 23 frigate HMS Portland, has tracked the movements of two Russian submarines as they sailed into the North Sea.
