
Tech company SEA has been awarded a £135 million contract by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide a trainable decoy launcher to improve Royal Navy surface ship defensive capabilities.

The Australian Government has selected BAE Systems and ASC to build Australia’s new fleet of nuclear-powered submarines as part of the AUKUS trilateral security pact between the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia.

The steel cutting of the first third-generation French SSBN took place at Naval Group’s shipyard in Cherbourg on March 20.

French shipbuilder Naval Group has been selected by The Netherlands Ministry of Defence for the Replacement Netherlands Submarine Capability project, based on the Barracuda family expeditionary submarines.

US defence company HII has received an order for a REMUS 620 unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV) from an international client in the Indo-Pacific Region.

Türkiye’s first national frigate, TCG ISTANBUL (F-515), built under the main contractorship of STM, has tested the first national Vertical Launch System (VLS) MİDLAS.

Turkish defense corporation Aselsan has completed the diving tests of Türkiye’s first autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) Deringöz.

Finnish shipbuilder Meyer Turku Oy has held a keel-laying ceremony for Finnish Border Guard’s new patrol vessel.

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri and the Qatar Emiri Naval Forces (QENF) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Doha aimed at starting discussions about QENF personnel’s education and training patterns.

Defence company Thales has provided an expeditionary portable operations center (e-POC) demonstrator to meet the French Navy’s new requirement for a drone-based mine countermeasures capability.

Babcock and the UK’s Submarine Delivery Agency (SDA) have signed a contract to undertake the planned deep maintenance and life extension program for HMS Victorious, one of the UK’s Vanguard-class nuclear submarines.

Dutch shipbuilder Damen and Swedish defence company Saab have agreed to export the advanced expeditionary C-71 submarines.