Unite, Scotland’s leading trade union, has revealed that over 30 members contracted to work on the new type 26 Frigate on the Clyde are set for strike action in the new year.
The Spanish Ministry of Defence and local shipbuilder Navantia have signed the Execution Order for the construction of two coastal hydrographic vessels (BHC) for the Spanish Navy.
Shipbuilder Navantia has started the construction process of the second frigate of the F-110 class for the Spanish Navy.
Defence company Babcock has been awarded a three-year contract to support and maintain two mine countermeasures vessels Cherkasy and Chernihiv for the Navy of Ukraine following their transfer from the Royal Navy.
The US has launched a new naval coalition, Operation Prosperity Guardian, in an effort to support the security and protect shipping in the Red Sea.
The Spanish Ministry of Defence (MoD) has ordered 16 Airbus C295 aircraft in maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) configuration and maritime surveillance aircraft (MSA) configuration.
The steel-cutting ceremony of the new hydro-oceanographic ship (N.I.O.M.) of the Italian Navy took place at Fincantieri’s Riva Trigoso shipyard on December 19.
The Spanish Navy has awarded Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace a contract worth €305 million for the delivery of Naval Strike Missiles (NSM).
Shipbuilder Meyer Turku has held a steel-cutting ceremony for first Turva-class patrol ship to be builf for Finnish Border Guard.
UK Defence Secretary Grant Shapps has revealed plans to transfer two Royal Navy’s minehunter ships to the Ukrainian Navy.
Dutch shipbuilder Damen Naval has contracted MAN Energy Solutions to supply the propulsion engines and GenSets for four anti-submarine warfare (ASW) frigates being built for the Royal Netherlands and Belgium navies.
The Royal Navy, with its Type 45 destroyer, has handed command of NATO’s task group in the Mediterranean Sea to the Italian Navy after more than five intensive months on front-line duties.
