The Royal Navy has delivered supplies between warships using a British-built drone for the first time during its 2025 Indo-Pacific deployment.
Australia has delivered a new landing craft vessel to Tonga, with an official handover ceremony taking place at the Masefield Naval Base.
Japan has selected equipment provider Palfinger to supply its slipway systems for the country’s next-generation FFM-class multirole frigates.
The Royal Australian Navy has held a keel-laying ceremony for the sixth and final Arafura-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV).
Austal USA has launched the company’s first landing craft utility (LCU) vessel built for the US Navy at its ship manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama.
The Norwegian Government has selected the United Kingdom as a strategic partner for the acquisition of new vessels based on the Royal Navy’s Type 26 frigates, which will be ‘the largest’ Norwegian defense capability investment to date.
Defense and security company Saab has signed a contract with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for a larger uncrewed underwater vehicle.
The Chilean Navy has demonstrated a ‘first-of-its-kind’ operation by fueling a naval vessel, a motorboat from the Hydrographic and Oceanographic Service (SHOA), with e-fuel, a carbon-neutral synthetic gasoline produced by international electrofuel company HIF Global.
Dutch shipbuilding major Damen Naval has signed a contract with compatriot steel supplier De Jong & Lavino for the delivery of all steel materials needed to build the PES (Plataforma Estratégica de Superficie) frigate for the Colombian Navy.
The keel for the future USS Wisconsin (SSBN 827), the US Navy’s second Columbia-class submarine, was laid during a ceremony on August 27, 2025, at the General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB), Quonset Point facility in Kingstown, Rhode Island.
Vigor Marine Group has joined forces with South Korean shipbuilding major Samsung Heavy Industries (SHI) to bring expanded forward-deployed maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) capacity to the Indo-Pacific region.
Blue Water Autonomy has secured $50 million in Series A funding, led by GV, to support the construction of unmanned vessels.
Two multi-mission stealth frigates of Project 17A, INS Udaygiri and INS Himgiri, were commissioned into the Indian Navy on August 26, 2025.
Shipbuilder Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) has held a steel-cutting ceremony for the Finnish Navy’s third Pohjanmaa-class corvette.
