Series production of the Kraken K3 Scout unmanned surface vessel (USV) has begun at Rheinmetall’s Blohm+Voss site in Hamburg.
Vestdavit has introduced its new AutoHook system, a fully autonomous launch and recovery solution designed to support unmanned surface vessels (USVs) and other maritime assets.
Spanish shipbuilder Freire Shipyard has launched a new diving support vessel, NB-739 A22 Proserpina, for the Spanish Navy.
Turkish shipbuilder HAVELSAN has signed a strategic agreement with VN Maritime and Piloda Defence to produce manned, unmanned, and hybrid surface platforms in Italy.
The UK government has unveiled a £50 million defense investment in Plymouth and the South West, aimed at accelerating maritime innovation and supporting the development of autonomous naval technologies.
Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigate HMS Lancaster departed Portsmouth on 15 August to begin its three-year mission in the Middle East.
Royal Navy’s Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel HMS Hurworth has joined NATO ships to support NATO on minehunting operations around Europe.
Sevmash Shipyard, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation, has delivered the special-mission, nuclear-powered submarine Belgorod.
The wreck of SMS Scharnhorst, a sunken armored battlecruiser of the German Navy, has been located off the Falkland Islands, the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust said. The Scharnhorst, the flagship of Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee’s East Asia Squadron, was sunk in December 1914 during the Battle
Defense technology company SEA and navigation systems provider iXblue have joined forces to develop an autonomous anti-submarine surveillance system at the DSEI conference in London. SeaDrix, as the system is named, is intended for long endurance surveillance patrols and can be deployed as a standal
Royal Navy frigate HMS Argyll has lent its capabilities to a BAE Systems team trying out their unmanned Pacific 24 sea boat in trials at London’s Docklands. The trials are part of the Royal Navy’s NavyX autonomous hardware accelerator program and will take place over the course of this week. Type 23
UK defense technology company BAE Systems has completed “one-of-a-kind” trials of the autonomous Pacific 950 rigid inflatable boat (RIB) demonstrator. The company now says that the autonomous technology will allow navies to go beyond the limits of human endurance with unmanned vessels that can trave
The Belgium Naval & Robotics consortium, composed of Naval Group and ECA Group, officially received a contract for the construction of twelve mine-hunting vessels for the navies of the Netherlands and Belgium. As revealed, the 12 ships will be equipped with some 100 drones, clustered in ten mission
The Royal Navy has contracted Swedish defense company Saab to deliver its AUV62-AT anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training system. The AUV62-AT autonomous underwater vehicle is a training solution allowing ASW units to train in a range of scenarios. This procurement follows a period of testing and eva
