Equipment & technology
FMD, DECK team up on UXVs capabilities
Fairbanks Morse Defense (FMD), a company of Arcline Investment Management (Arcline), is expanding its capabilities to serve unmanned marine vehicles (UXV) through a licensing agreement with DECK Marine Systems (DECK), a developer of systems to deploy and recover vessels and sensors.
Keel laid for US Navy’s new Flight III Arleigh-Burke-class destroyer
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division has laid the keel for the future USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129), a US Navy’s Flight III Arleigh-Burke class destroyer.
LIG Nex1 to work on next-gen variant of Blue Shark anti-submarine torpedo
South Korea’s LIG Nex1 has been selected to develop an improved variant of the K745 Cheong Sangeo (Blue Shark) lightweight anti-submarine torpedo.
BAE Systems bags $88M deal for US Marine Corps’ ACV-30 test vehicles
UK defence company BAE Systems has been awarded a contract to build multiple ACV-30 production-ready test vehicles (PRTVs) for US Marine Corps.
UK’s Type 23 frigate HMS Lancaster departs on a three-year mission
Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigate HMS Lancaster departed Portsmouth on 15 August to begin its three-year mission in the Middle East.
GE’s LM2500 engines picked for Indian Navy’s 1st indigenous aircraft carrier
US-based engine supplier General Electric (GE) has revealed that its LM2500 engines were chosen to power the Indian Navy’s first indigenous aircraft carrier INS Vikrant.
Pacific Dragon 22: USS Fitzgerald launches SM-3 Block IA
US Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) has launched a Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) Block IA as part of Pacific Dragon 22 (PD22), a biennial exercise in the Hawaiian Islands operating area.
US, Indonesia and Singapore conduct Garuda Shield 2022
The US Navy has conducted the sea phase of exercise Garuda Shield 2022 in the Natuna Sea with the Indonesian Navy and the Republic of Singapore Navy.
British warship on the hunt for mines with NATO ships
Royal Navy’s Hunt-class mine countermeasures vessel HMS Hurworth has joined NATO ships to support NATO on minehunting operations around Europe.
US Navy tests Snakehead LDUUV for autonomous ops
A US Navy team led by NUWC Division Newport staff demonstrated an end-to-end intelligence preparation of the operational environment (IPOE) mission with the Snakehead large displacement unmanned undersea vehicle (LDUUV) prototype at the Narragansett Bay Test Facility on 21 July.
US Navy’s Tico cruiser USS Leyte Gulf underway for deployment
The US Navy’s Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) departed Naval Station Norfolk for deployment on 8 August.
SeeByte to support Belgian Navy’s AUV fleet
Software solutions provider SeeByte has revealed that the Belgian Navy renewed its license for using the firm’s uncrewed maritime system (UMS) to assist its fleet of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUV).
Six companies to continue working on US Navy’s large USV design
The US Navy has hired six defense companies for continued studies of a large unmanned surface vessel (USV) design.
US Navy gets first next-gen jammer for its Growler
The US Navy’s first AN/ALQ-249 next-generation jammer mid-band (NGJ-MB) production representative pods have arrived at the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division (NAWCAD) Patuxent River, Maryland.