The German federal parliament (Bundestag) has allocated billions of euros for the modernization of the German Navy.
The third and final Royal Navy autonomous minehunting boat has been delivered to Clyde Naval Base.
The UK government has awarded a £36 million contract to Marine Specialised Technology to deliver 18 new police patrol craft for the Ministry of Defence (MOD) and Gibraltar Defence Police (GDP) Forces.
Italian shipbuilding group Fincantieri and the Ministry of Defense of Indonesia have signed a contract for the supply of six FREMM-class frigates.
On 21 May, UK’s Defence Secretary Ben Wallace launched a competition to build three new Fleet Solid Support (FSS) ships to provide vital support to Royal Navy operations across the world.
Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier and fleet flagship HMS Queen Elizabeth has sailed from Portsmouth for her maiden operational deployment at the heart of the UK’s Carrier Strike Group after a farewell visit from Her Majesty The Queen.
Sachsen-Anhalt (F224), the German Navy’s third of four F125-class frigates, has officially entered service.
The Royal Navy’s new Spearfish torpedo has been declared ready for front-line action with the navy and undergone extensive deepwater trials with HMS Audacious in the Bahamas. Five of the heavy torpedoes were successfully fired by Audacious – the fourth of the Royal Navy’s Astute-class nuclear-powere
Russia’s Sredne-Nevsky shipyard, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, has launched Pyotr Ilyichev (543), the Russian Navy’s newest Project 12700 Aleksandrit-class minesweeper.
The UK’s Carrier Strike Group led by HMS Queen Elizabeth will visit more than one fifth of the world’s nations when it sails next month.
Shipbuilder Navantia has hosted a launching ceremony for the future Isaac Peral (S-81), the first in a series of new air-independent propulsion (AIP) S-80 submarines being built for the Spanish Navy.
Anson, the fifth of seven Astute class attack submarines being built for the Royal Navy, has been launched at BAE Systems’ site in Barrow-in-Furness, Cumbria.
Russian submarine designer Rubin Design Bureau revealed it has developed a submersible patrol ship combining the features of a submarine and a surface patrol vessel.
British aerospace, defence and security company Babcock International has been awarded a two-year contract with the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) for the continuation of in-service support to the Phalanx close-in weapon system (CIWS).
