Australian Maritime Alliance (AMA), a joint venture between Serco and Civmec, has teamed up with IMC Naval Architects to deliver a state-of-the-art solution for the Australian Army’s LAND 8710 Phase 1A program. For the project, AMA is offering a littoral manoeuvre vessel-medium (LMV-M) design, ‘Oboe
Four US Navy vessels have arrived in the Baltic countries – Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, for scheduled port visits, demonstrating the United States’ commitment to regional allies and partners. The Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Kearsarge arrived in Klaipėda, Lithuania, on 20 August. San An
This week, the Secretary General of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), Jens Stoltenberg, will travel to Canada to discuss global challenges including threats to Euro-Atlantic security. Stoltenberg will visit Edmonton, Cambridge Bay and Cold Lake from 24 to 26 August and will advance shar
Following alerts from numerous organisations, Türkiye is requiring a new inventory of hazardous materials (IHM) to be conducted prior to the export of the Brazilian Navy’s aircraft carrier Sao Paulo to Aliaga, where it is to be scrapped. On August 9, Turkish authority Eyüp Karahan, general director
French defence company ECA Group has completed the factory acceptance tests (FAT) for its modernised ship’s command and control (CC) system and mine identification and disposal systems (MIDS) for the Latvian Navy. The system will soon be integrated into Latvia’s Tripartite-class mine hunter vessels
Last week, the US Navy’s chief of naval operations (CNO) Adm. Mike Gilday visited Spain and the United Kingdom to meet with sailors, government and military leaders, focusing on partnerships between navies. During his visit, CNO spoke with US sailors and service members assigned to US allies and par
US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has hired science and technology company Leidos to design and build a medium-sized unmanned undersea vehicle (UUV) under a contract worth approximately $358 million. The subsea vehicle will support intelligence preparation of the operational environment by provi
Royal Navy’s survey ship HMS Scott is on course to smash its record scanning the oceans after just the first four weeks of a15-month deployment in the Atlantic Ocean.
Pakistan has turned over command of a multinational naval task force of Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) to Brazil during a ceremony at the US Navy base in Bahrain on 18 August.
US shipbuilder General Dynamics Bath Iron Works has been contracted by the US Navy for the procurement of long lead materials for the large missile vertical launch system (LMVLS) launch module fabrication on destroyer USS Zumwalt.
The first Ukrainian Navy’s Milgem (Ada-class) corvette will be named Hetman Ivan Mazepa, Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky revealed.
The Danish Government plans to invest DKK 40 billion ($5.47 billion) in the naval shipbuilding sector, the country’s Ministry of Defence revealed.
Defence company Lockheed Martin has delivered to the US Navy a 60+ kW-class high-energy laser.
The US Navy has chosen Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) to install the first hypersonic missiles on Zumwalt-class destroyers USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) and USS Michael Monsoor (DDG-1001), as revealed in the pre-solicitation notice published by Naval Sea Systems Command.
