Royal Australian Navy’s Adelaide-class frigate HMAS Melbourne celebrated 25 years since she entered service with the Royal Australian Navy on February 15. The guided missile frigate has steamed more than 1.5 million kilometres – about 37 times the earth’s circumference – and clocked up almost 62,000
UK defense company BAE Systems announced on Monday a new £25 million training facility at Barrow-in-Furness that will provide a learning environment for an estimated 1,000 craft and technical apprentices currently in training. Defence Secretary Michael Fallon today met apprentices working on Britain
British company Kelvin Hughes will be supplying its SharpEye radar systems for the two follow-on Batch 2 River-class offshore patrol vessels HMS Tamar and HMS Spey. The announcement from Monday follows an earlier contract from 2015 for the delivery of same systems for the first three vessels in the
Swedish defense company Saab has launched a new tool that it says will help coast guards do their work more efficiently and effectively. Launched in Abu Dhabi, at IDEX, the company says CoastControl is a solution that combines a suite of surveillance and communications products with a workflow manag
Eastern Shipbuilding Group has contracted Canada-based Gastops to provide the dynamic response analysis (DRA) for the U.S. Coast Guard’s new Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC). Working with Eastern Shipbuilding Group’s team, Gastops will use computer modelling to simulate the ship’s propulsion system inte
Dutch company Bakker Sliedrecht was responsible for the electrical auxiliary propulsion system installed on the first of two Perusak Kawal Rudal (PKR) guided missile frigates built for the Indonesian Navy Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding. Key components of the electrical auxiliary propulsion system
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U.S Navy’s aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson and the attached carrier strike group entered the South China Sea and started patrols in the disputed region, the U.S. Navy announced on February. The start of “routine operations” comes a week after Beijing warned the U.S. not to challenge China’s soverei
With the German Navy’s sail training ship Gorch Fock tied in port for extensive repairs, a number of German officer cadets have taken to Royal Navy’ flagship HMS Ocean for their first at sea experience and training. Thanks to a liaison between the home of Royal Navy officer training in Dartmouth and
Republic of Korea Navy destroyer ROKS Choi Young will be joining operation Atalanta, an EU-led counter-piracy mission off the coast of Somalia, in March this year. The Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin-class destroyer will work with EU NAVFOR warships to prevent acts of piracy that plagued the waters off the c
With a $166 million contract for the delivery of 63 eCASS stations, the U.S. Navy has approved full rate production of Lockheed Martin’s Electronic Consolidated Automated Support System (eCASS). eCASS provides shore-based and afloat intermediate and depot level maintenance and repair capabilities fo
U.S. Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, the future USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), completed crew certification on February 16, following a three-day fast cruise. “It is the crew that brings the ship to life,” said Capt. Rick McCormack, Ford’s commanding officer. “The crew is at the heart of all that we d
A U.S. Navy ballistic missile submarine carried out four successful Trident II D5 missile launches over a three-day period, the U.S. Navy announced. The missile launches were part of what is called a Follow-on Commander’s Evaluation Test (FCET) and were concluded on February 16. The primary objectiv
Dredging works in Portsmouth Harbour have once again unearthed a wartime bomb that was detonated by Royal Navy’s bomb disposal experts on Friday morning. The British-made Armstrong Whitworth munition was found at 2am in the excavator head of a barge dredging the harbour. Dredgers have revealed at le
