Technology and consulting company Indra has signed a contract with South Korean shipbuilding company Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) to equip the first KSS III submarine of Batch II to be delivered to the Korean Navy with its Pegaso electronic defense system.
INS Vela, the fourth submarine in the series of six submarines of Project-75, was commissioned on 25 November at the Naval Dockyard in Mumbai.
The marine electrical systems division of Wärtsilä SAM Electronics GmbH, headquartered in Hamburg, has been contracted to provide the electrical system integration (eSI) solutions for the German Navy’s F126 project.
Five international navies, including the Royal Australian Navy (RAN), Royal Canadian Navy (RCN), German Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), and US Navy, will engage in various operations under Annualex 2021 drill.
UAE-based defense tech company Edge Group has signed a strategic agreement with Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) to jointly design unmanned surface vessels (USVs).
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has donated two Island-class patrol boats to Ukraine to reinforce the country’s navy.
The Royal Navy will retire two Type 23 frigates, HMS Monmouth and HMS Montrose, in July 2021 and July 2023 respectively, saving around £100 million ($133 million), according to written evidence submitted by Admiral Tony Radakin to the Defence Select Commitee, UK.
Defense company Austal USA has been awarded a $72.5 million contract by the US Navy to perform maintenance on littoral combat ships (LCSs) deployed to the Western Pacific, Indian Ocean, and the countries and ports therein.
British arms, security, and aerospace company BAE Systems has unveiled that it is transferring more than two million digital artefacts and 90,000 documents from the UK’s Type 26 frigate program to Adelaide’s Osborne Naval Shipyard.
The US Navy has christened its newest Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), the future USS Marinette (LCS 25), at a ceremony held in Marinette, Wisconsin.
Huntington Ingalls Industries has revealed that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division has received a contract modification from the US Navy for $113.6 million to enable long-lead-time material and advance procurement activities for amphibious assault ship LHA 9.
The amphibious dock landing ship USS Rushmore has arrived at Fleet Activities Sasebo, Japan, as the newest addition to U.S. 7th Fleet’s forward-deployed naval forces (FDNF).
INS Visakhapatnam, a P15B stealth guided missile destroyer, was commissioned into the Indian Navy on 21 November at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai.
Damen SPa 4207, the second of four Damen vessels on order for the Jamaica Defence Force Coast Guard, has been handed over in Kingston, Jamaica.
