
Royal Navy’s Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel HMS Hurworth has joined NATO ships to support NATO on minehunting operations around Europe.

A US Navy team led by NUWC Division Newport staff demonstrated an end-to-end intelligence preparation of the operational environment (IPOE) mission with the Snakehead large displacement unmanned undersea vehicle (LDUUV) prototype at the Narragansett Bay Test Facility on 21 July.

The US Navy’s Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) departed Naval Station Norfolk for deployment on 8 August.

The US Navy has hired six defense companies for continued studies of a large unmanned surface vessel (USV) design.

Spanish provider of underwater technologies SAES has carried out the modernization process of the tactical submarine simulator (SATS) for the Spanish Navy’s S-70 submarines.

The world’s largest international maritime exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022 concluded on 4 August following more than a month of realistic, relevant combined operations training conducted in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California.

Luerssen Australia, a subsidiary of Naval Vessels Lürssen (NVL Group), has started construction of the Royal Australian Navy’s sixth Arafura-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV).

The US Navy has delivered the first of three Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) CN-235 military transport aircraft converted to a maritime patrol platform.

Curtiss-Wright Corporation has been awarded contracts valued in excess of $220 million to provide propulsion valves, pumps and advanced instrumentation and control systems for the US Navy’s submarines and aircraft carriers.

Royal Australian Navy’s lead Canberra-class landing helicopter dock HMAS Canberra has sailed the waters around Hawaii conducting docking operations with US Marine Corps’ (USMC) MV-22B Osprey aircraft.

Standing NATO Maritime Group (SNMG) 2 and the US Navy’s Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (HSTCSG) augmented by Italian Navy frigate ITS Alpino (F 594) conducted joint maritime and air defence exercises on July 24 while operating in the Mediterranean Sea.

The Indian Navy has taken delivery of two MH-60 Romeo multi-role helicopters.

The unmanned influence sweep system (UISS), a component of the US Navy’s suite of mine countermeasure technologies, has achieved initial operating capability (IOC).

The US Navy commissioned its newest amphibious transport dock, the future USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28), during a ceremony on 30 July in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.