A significant step towards autonomous mine-hunting operations has been achieved after Royal Navy Motor Boat (RNMB) Apollo, an Uncrewed Surface Vessel (USV) delivered by Thales, completed a demanding series of Royal Navy and industry open water assurance trials.
The French defence procurement agency (DGA) has awarded Naval Group a new contract to study the design of a future Unmanned Combat Underwater Vehicle (UCUV).
Austal USA has started construction of the US Navy’s Auxiliary Floating Dry Dock Medium (AFDM) at the company’s Gulf Coast ship manufacturing facility.
The UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded BAE Systems a 10 year contract worth £270 million to support the Royal Navy’s three main radar systems: Artisan, Sampson, and Long Range Radar (LRR).
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has signed a contract with the Directorate of Naval Armaments of the Secretariat General of Defence / National Armaments Directorate for on-demand servicing of German Navy submarines.
The Royal Navy has recently formed a protective ring of steel around the world’s largest warship in the Arctic Circle during combined security exercises in the high north.
Shipbuilder Babcock Canada has signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement with Hanwha Ocean to collaborate on the Canadian Patrol Submarine Project (CPSP).
ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited on the intended construction of conventional, air-independent-propulsion submarines on 7 June.
The keel for the future USS Pittsburgh (LPD 31), a San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock, was ceremonially laid at Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division, on 2 June.
Northrop Grumman Corporation has revealed that the first E-6B Mercury Aircraft has been successfully delivered back to the U.S. Navy after an upgrade.
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has revealed that production work started on Italian Navy’s second U212NFS submarine.
A Royal Navy warship destroyed a jet drone during the world’s largest test of naval and missile defences.
The Croatian Navy has returned to Vestdavit for a repeat order of the latter’s PLAR-4000 davit for retrofitting on an offshore patrol vessel (OPV) after seeing its proven reliability on a range of operational missions.
Fincantieri and its subsidiary Vard signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Heddle Shipyards, Thales Canada and SH Defense, to establish the collaboration that will propose the Vigilance-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) for the Royal Canadian Navy.
