
Germany’s shipbuilder thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has handed over INS Oz, the second of four corvettes ordered by the Israeli Navy.

Aerospace, defense and security company Babcock has secured a ten-year contract to continue delivering the marine rotating electrical machinery (MREM) asset availability service (AAS) to the Royal Navy.

Babcock Team 31 has successfully completed its whole ship critical design review (WSCDR) which is a key indicator of the compliance, maturity and engineering risk in proceeding into production as it matures the 3D CAD model.

Rheinmetall delivered the 300th MASS Multi Ammunition Softkill System, a naval countermeasures system.

Russia’s Sredne-Nevsky shipyard, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, has launched Pyotr Ilyichev (543), the Russian Navy’s newest Project 12700 Aleksandrit-class minesweeper.

Procurement agency DGA has successfully tested an M51 submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), informs the French ministry of armed forces.

HMS Queen Elizabeth has welcomed Merlin navy helicopters, designed for surveillance and submarine hunting operations, to serve as the airborne guardians during her maiden deployment.

The UK’s Carrier Strike Group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth will visit more than one fifth of the world’s nations when it sails next month.

Damen Naval and the Hamburg Ship Model Basin (HSVA) have signed a contract for comprehensive cooperation relating to hydrodynamic optimisation and the execution of an extensive series of model tests for the German Navy’s new F126 or MKS 180 class frigates.

Shipbuilder Navantia has hosted a launching ceremony for the future Isaac Peral (S-81), the first in a series of new air-independent propulsion (AIP) S-80 submarines being built for the Spanish Navy.

The Royal Navy has confirmed the names of two new fast patrol boats – HM Ships Dagger and Cutlass – to be based in Gibraltar.

Rolls-Royce has delivered the first two 16-cylinder engines of the mtu Series 8000, built for the Taiwanese shipyard CSBC Corporation to power new patrol vessels for the Taiwanese Coast Guard.