
US Navy’s guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) conducted its first in-class, live-fire missile exercise, April 14, as the crew prepares for their maiden employment.

Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) and GE Power Conversion have signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) to develop integrated full electric propulsion system for Indian Navy.

Training exercises aboard a Portuguese Navy hydrographic vessel have been completed by Environment Quality Services (EQS) using their Saab Seaeye Falcon robot.

CAE, a provider of training solutions and services for all military forces, has secured an order from the NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) for the full-mission simulator (FMS).

US naval shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HHI) said that US Navy’s Virginia-class submarine New Jersey (SSN 796) was recently launched into the James River at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division.

US-based shipbuilder Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) has received a contract from the U.S. Coast Guard to begin construction of the fourth Heritage-class offshore patrol cutter (OPC), the future USCGC Rush (WMSM 918).

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has delivered Damsah, the second of four Al Zubarah-class corvettes, to the Qatari Ministry of Defence.

The U.S. Marine Corps has declared Initial Operational Capability (IOC) for the CH-53K heavy-lift helicopter designed and built by Sikorsky, a Lockheed Martin company.

The future Royal Navy fleet has started to take shape as the construction of the first of five new Type 31 frigates began.

Biofuels are seen as a more realistic option for the decarbonization of naval ships than ammonia, methanol, hydrocarbons or other power sources, a new white paper finds.

Defence company BAE Systems and technology giant Microsoft are developing the next generation of cloud computing maritime defence technology.

Last week, the Finnish and Swedish navies conducted a joint anti-submarine warfare exercise in the Gulf of Finland.

US-based supplier of electronics products Curtiss-Wright Corporation has been selected by engineering company Progeny to provide modular open system approach (MOSA) computers and digital processing modules for use in the US Navy’s torpedo upgrade programs.

Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier HMS Prince of Wales has returned home to Portsmouth after seven weeks away training with NATO and UK-led Joint Expeditionary Force in the Arctic.