Equipment & technology
Qinetiq to help reduce Royal Navy subs’ acoustic, electromagnetic signatures
UK defense contractor QinetiQ has won a £18.7 million ($22.7m) contract to help reduce the acoustic and electromagnetic signatures of Royal Navy submarines and ships. Each ship or submarine has a unique acoustic and electromagnetic signature – the bigger this signature the easier it is to detect, id
Thailand hosts first US-ASEAN maritime exercise
This is the US Navy’s first exercise of its kind with ASEAN.
NATO group wraps up deployment’s first drills in US waters
Maritime Express will also see cooperation between military vessels and the commercial shipping community.
Raytheon gets $349m to complete first phase of anti-ship Tomahawk development
The US Naval Air Systems Command has awarded Raytheon a $349 million contract to complete the first phase of work on the Maritime Strike Tomahawk program. The project is being undertaken to allow the US Navy to field an anti-ship variant of the Block IV Tactical Tomahawk. The project started in 2016
US clears sale of MK 54 torpedoes for South Korean P-8As
The US state department has approved a possible sale of 31 MK 54 lightweight torpedoes to the Republic of Korea. The Republic of Korea Navy is acquiring the torpedoes for its new Poseidon P-8A submarine hunter aircraft. The proposed sale, along with associated equipment and services, has an estimate
Denmark buying low frequency sonars, sonobuoys for its MH-60R helicopters
The US State Department has approved a possible foreign military sale of nine AN/AQS-22 airborne low frequency sonar (ALFS) systems and six hundred AN/SSQ-36/53/62 sonobuoys for its fleet of MH-60R helicopters. The possible sale has an estimated value of $200 million, according to the US Defense Sec
Missile-fielding Expeditionary Warfare USV debuts at US Navy ANTX event
The Expeditionary Warfare USV, an unmanned surface vessel armed with a Longbow Hellfire missile system and a .50 gun mounted on a remote weapon station, showed off its capabilities at the 2019 Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (ANTX) at Camp Lejeune, N.C. The unique weaponized USV is capable of per
Raytheon begins production of ESSM Block 2 missiles
The US Navy has awarded Raytheon a $190 million low-rate initial production contract for ESSM Block 2 missiles featuring a new guidance system with a dual mode active and semi-active radar. This award follows the navy’s decision to shift from development to production on the enhanced intermediate-ra
US Navy clears Knifefish UUV for low-rate production
The mine countermeasure unmanned undersea vehicle has reached Milestone C.
South Korea’s Hanwha Systems to upgrade Philippine frigates
The Philippines defense department has contracted South Korean defense company Hanwha Systems for the upgrades of the Philippine Navy’s three Del Pilar-class frigates. The three frigates are former US Coast Guard Hamilton-class cutters donated to the Philippines between 2011 and 2016. The upgrade pr
Royal Navy seeking interim surface to surface missiles for five Type 23 frigates
The interim missiles would remain in service for a period of ten years.
First Improved Kilo sub for Pacific Fleet starts builder’s trials
The boat was launched in March this year.
US Navy’s EASR aircraft carrier radar tracks first targets
The Raytheon-developed SPY-6(V)2 Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar that will be deployed on US Navy aircraft carriers and amphibious warfare ships has been put to its first test. In a test conducted at the Surface Combat System Center at Wallops Island, the radar searched for, detected, identified a
Destroyer Hobart first in class to fire missile in Australian waters
The missile firing took place ahead of the ship’s maiden operational deployment.