Faster, punchier, and more efficient, HMS Lancaster has put to sea again after a 16-month overhaul in her home port. The Portsmouth-based frigate has emerged from a £22m refit with increased firepower and improved kit from bow to stern and is now being put through her paces off the South Coast. This
JSC Severnaya Verf shipyard (St. Petersburg) will construct 10 Project 20385 corvettes (modernized Project 20380 Stereguschiy) for Russian Navy, the yard’s press secretary Olga Vilde told RIA Novosti on Feb 1. Official keel-laying ceremony of Project 20385 lead corvette Gremyaschiy took place on sli
UK-based A&P Group and Thales Australia have signed an agreement to provide through life support services to HMAS CHOULES – the Royal Australian Navy’s new Bay Class Landing Ship Dock. A&P Group has an existing support contract with the Defence Materiel Organisation for the interim support of the ve
Another group of Indian naval servicemen received diplomas of the Kuznetsov Naval Academy on the New Year’s Eve in Severodvinsk. The documents were handed over to future crewmen of aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya; they are 23 bilge engineers, the first group of the second course. Capt Srinivas Kud
In 2012, Russia will sell armaments to India for about $7.7 bln which is over 60% of Russian export and 80% of Indian import. Since 2013, the US will become India’s largest arms exporter. Such impressive results in Russo-Indian military cooperation are achieved because of several large programs (val
Russia will hand over modernized aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya (former Admiral Gorshkov) to India on Dec 4, 2012, reports RIA Novosti referring to Sergei Novoselov, deputy director of Sevmash shipyard for international military cooperation. The agreement on the carrier’s modernization is one of
Along with construction of strategic and multipurpose nuclear-powered submarines, Russian Navy development program provides renewal of non-nuclear (diesel electric) submarines. In Russian Navy, diesel electric submarines are used for antisurface and antisubmarine warfare far fr om home bases both in
BMT Defence Services Ltd, a subsidiary of BMT Group Ltd, the leading international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, has had its status as Recognised Organisation (RO) renewed by the Ministry of Defence (MOD) with an increased scope. The RO status permits BMT to undertake
The Brazilian Navy has signed a contract worth £133 million with BAE Systems for the supply of three Ocean Patrol Vessels and ancillary support services. The contract also contains a Manufacturing Licence to enable further vessels of the same class to be constructed in Brazil. The three 90 metre v
JSC Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center delivered Project 12411T small-size gunnery ship MAK-160 to Caspian Flotilla (CF), reports PortNews. The ship has passed complete repair and modernization at Zvezdochka‘s affiliate company in Astrakhan. The ship obtained two new propulsion engines, upgraded gas turb
Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center (Severodvinsk) speeds up works on Northern Fleet (NF) Project 877 diesel submarines, told a source in the shipyard to Central Navy Portal. Two NF diesel electric submarines of this type – SSK Kaluga and SSK Vladikavkaz – are currently under repair at Zvezdochka. Kaluga
JSC Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center (affiliate of United Shipbuilding Corporation) started repair works on Project 949A Antei nuclear-powered attack submarine Smolensk. The sub was taken over by the shipyard in Sept 2011, laid up and docked in Nov 2011. In the dock, experts of Zvezdochka center will p
The largest Russian shipyard and the only company building nuclear-powered submarines – JSC Sevmash celebrates 72-nd anniversary since the day of foundation. In 1939, the shipyard called 402-nd Plant laid down the first hull – battleship Sovetskaya Belorussia. During the Great Patriotic War the yard
Russian aircraft-producing corporation MiG will complete delivery of ship-based fighters MiG-29K/KUB for Indian Navy by the end of the current year; the airplanes are to be stationed on aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya, reports ARMS-TASS referring to the company’s press service. The delivery contra
