The Royal Marines have completed preparations for operations across the Mediterranean this autumn after intensive amphibious exercises in the Netherlands.
On 20 July, the European Commission announced plans to grant a total EU funding of almost €1.2 billion supporting 61 collaborative defence research and development projects, including projects from the naval defence sector.
A Royal Navy warship, Type 23 frigate HMS Portland, has tracked the movements of two Russian submarines as they sailed into the North Sea.
Turkish defense company STM has entered into a collaboration with the signing of a Goodwill Protocol with the NATO Maritime Security Centre of Excellence (MARSEC COE).
Vard Marine, a company of Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri, has received approval in principle (AiP) from Lloyd’s Register (LR) for its Vard 7 125 next-generation offshore patrol vessel (OPV).
The navies of the UK and Denmark have signed the Type 31 Implementing Agreement to work side-by-side to bring the UK’s next generation of frigates into service.
In a historic moment for the US Navy’s European and African operational region, a Freedom-variant littoral combat ship, USS Sioux City (LCS 11), deployed to the U.S. Sixth Fleet’s area of operations.
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has delivered Damsah, the second of four Al Zubarah-class corvettes, to the Qatari Ministry of Defence.
The future Royal Navy fleet has started to take shape as the construction of the first of five new Type 31 frigates began.
The UK, the US, and Australia will focus on new elements of collaboration under AUKUS pact, originally announced last September to provide nuclear-powered submarines to Australia.
UK-based defence company BAE Systems has completed the acquisition of a simulation software company Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) for $200 million.
Turkey has warned both Black Sea and non-Black Sea countries not to send warships to pass through the Bosphorus and Dardanelles straits, country’s Foreign Minister Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu revealed.
The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) has transferred command of Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1) to the Royal Netherlands Navy during a virtual ceremony between Ottawa and Amsterdam.
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has begun production activities for the first of two next-generation U212NFS submarines for the Italian Navy.
