The Sri Lankan port of Tricomalee welcomed two Chinese warships, “Jing Gangshan” and “Heng Shui”, yesterday, January 13th. “Jing Gangshan” is a Chinese Navy landing platform dock ship. She is 210 meters long and has a displacement of 19.035 tons. The other ship, “Heng Shui”, is a 134.1 meters long m
Raytheon Company has signed a contract with the U.S. Missile Defense Agency for the procurement of Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IB guided missiles. The SM-3 is a ship-based missile, currently used by the US Navy to intercept short to intermediate-range ballistic missiles and dismantle incoming ba
Having conducted sea trials from 9-13 December 2013 on board the L’Adroit Gowind-class Offshore Patrol Vessel, the French defence procurement agency (DGA), the French Navy and DCNS have validated the functional integration of an unmanned air vehicle (UAV) with the combat system of a warship as part
Russian two new missile corvettes have completed acceptance trials and are ready to enter service in the Caspian Flotilla, writes RIA Novosti. The new Buyan-M class ships, named Uglich and Grad Sviyazhsk, started sea trials in August and completed Kalibr-NK missiles tests during the trials. The Buya
General Dynamics Electric Boat has signed a contract with the US Navy under which General Dynamics will continue development of the Common Missile Compartment for the Ohio replacement submarine and the UK’s Successor ballistic-missile submarine. The USD 15 million contract will finance steam and ele
Canadian Navy Submarine to Return to Service after Decade The Canadian Navy submarine HMCS Chicoutimi will return to the fleet almost a decade after a major fire onboard the ship, as reported by CBC news. British, Russian Ships Meet at Sea The Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer, HMS Defender, returned t
The U.S. Navy is moving two guided-missile destroyers, USS John Paul Jones (DDG 53) and USS Preble (DDG 88), to Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, this summer as a way of boosting Aegis capabilities to Commander of Naval Surface Group Middle Pacific (CNSGMP), the Navy said in a release yesterday. USS J
Seattle based Vigor Shipyards Inc. has received a USD 33 million contract for repair and alteration of a US Navy ship. The ship, named USS Moomsen, with a hull number DDG 92, will undergo a docking selected restricted availability, which is primarily aimed at conducting repair and alteration to a sh
The U.S. Navy and global security and aerospace company Lockheed Martin have come up with an affordability approach that cuts costs of all phases of the recently-awarded contract for Aegis weapons systems, including production, integration and test. The $574 million contract stipulates the productio
The Ukrainian Navy ship, Hetman Sahaidachnyi, has returned to the port of Djibouti having completed its sixth patrolling and presence in the Ocean Shield operation. The ship ensured navigation security in the Gulf of Aden from October 12, 2013 through January 2, 2014. Hetman Sahaidachnyi spent 47 da
The US and French navies engaged in a joint training in the waters of the Gulf of Oman, the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility (AOR) on Dec. 29 in order to strengthen interoperability. The two task groups, comprising Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (HST CSG) and the French navy’s Task Force
The 2014 began very promising for the U.S. defence contractor Lockheed Martin, which has been awarded two contracts by the U.S. Department of Defence, worth a total of USD 24.1 million. Both contracts relate to Aegis Combat System, an integrated naval weapons system that uses powerful computer and r
BAE Systems, Land & Armaments L.P. was awarded a $19.2 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to exercise options for fiscal 2014 MK 41 vertical launching system canister production requirements. Production requirements will include 89 MK 21 MOD 3 (SM-6) canisters, coding plug assemblies, ex
Divers from the U.S. Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) and Southwest Regional Maintenance Center (SWRMC) have carried out the first full underwater waterjet seal and evaluation on a littoral combat ship (LCS), USS Fort Worth (LCS 3), the US Navy said yesterday. NAVSEA’s Supervisor of Salvage and Di
