
Austrian unmanned aerial system (UAS) manufacturer Schiebel has been awarded a follow-on contract to supply the Royal Thai Navy (RTN) with additional Camcopter S-100 rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs).

Australia’s Department of Defence will order two more evolved Cape-class patrol boats from Austal Australia, according to the announcement made by the country’s Prime Minister Scott Morrison on 18 April.

The U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) will commission the USCGC Clarence Sutphin (WPC 1147), Patrol Forces Southwest Asia’s (PATFORSWA) sixth Sentinel-class cutter, into service at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York on 21 April 2022.

Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) has established a new, fourth international naval task force to strengthen maritime security in the Red Sea region.

The US and Indonesian navies concluded three days of at-sea bilateral operations in the South China Sea from 12 to 14 April.

Russian Navy’s Slava-class guided-missile cruiser Moskva has sunk while being towed to the designation port after sustaining serious damage in a fire.

Ultra Electronics Holdings (ULE) and Sparton DLS, through their joint venture Erapsco, have received a contract from the US Navy for the production of next-generation sonobuoys.

The US Navy has used an all-electric, high-energy laser weapon to defeat a target representing a subsonic cruise missile in flight in what it claims to be a “historic test”.

Sensor solutions provider Hensoldt has signed a contract with mission combat system integrator Thales, to deliver TRS-4D naval radar to the future multi-purpose frigates F126 of the German Navy.

The last of the four Argentinian offshore patrol vessel (OPV), OPV 87 ARA Contraalmirante Cordero, was delivered to the Argentine Navy in Concarneau on 13 April.

Russian Navy’s Slava-class guided-missile cruiser Moskva has been hit by anti-ship missiles, after which it sustained serious damage, Ukrainian Armed Forces said.

US Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer Frank E. Petersen Jr. (DDG 121) has departed from Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division before commissioning next month.

Russian Navy’s tenth Project 20380 Steregushchiy-class corvette Rezkiy has started sea trials.

Defence company Austal USA has opened the company’s new steel shipbuilding facility in Mobile, Alabama, which will enable the simultaneous production of both aluminium and steel-hulled ships.