
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has signed a contractual integration for the PPA (Multipurpose Combat Ship) program, aimed at upgrading the PPA-class vessels to the ‘full combat system’ configuration.

Indra and IDV, the land defence arm of Leonardo, have secured a strategic agreement to deliver Spain’s new Marine Infantry amphibious combat vehicles (VACIMs).

The NATO agency in charge of the NH90 program, NAHEMA, has signed a contract with NHIndustries, a consortium between Airbus, Leonardo, and GKN Aerospace, to launch the NH90 Block 2 architecture study.

Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth has departed the Rosyth Dockyard following the completion of a significant planned maintenance program, shipbuilder Babcock revealed.

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.

Shipbuilding major Fincantieri has delivered the multi-purpose support vessel Tritone to the Italian Navy at its Palermo shipyard.

Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigate HMS Lancaster departed Portsmouth on 15 August to begin its three-year mission in the Middle East.

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.

Royal Navy’s first Type 26 anti-submarine frigate HMS Glasgow will enter the water later this year, shipbuilding company BAE Systems has confirmed.

French Navy’s first Patrouilleur d’Outre-Mer (POM) offshore patrol vessel (OPV), Auguste Benebig, has been conducting sea trials, the navy revealed.

UK defence company BAE Systems has signed a five-year contract to support its Artisan radar on the Brazilian Navy’s flagship, the multipurpose aircraft carrier NAM Atlântico.

Systems Engineering & Assessment’s (SEA) Naval Systems Integration Process Service (NSIPS) contract has been extended to include support for the configuration management of the combat systems for all Royal Navy in-service submarines.

A Royal Navy warship, Type 23 frigate HMS Portland, has tracked the movements of two Russian submarines as they sailed into the North Sea.

Rheinmetall’s subsidiary Rheinmetall Electronics GmbH has been awarded a follow-up contract by its partner company Reiser Simulation und Training GmbH (RST) for simulators for the NH90 NFH Sea Lion naval helicopter.