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.
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.
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.
Admiralty Shipyards, a subsidiary of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), has begun the final stage of sea trials of the second Lada-class (Project 677) submarine Kronstadt (B-586) built for the Russian Navy.
The US Navy has delivered the first of three Royal Malaysian Air Force (RMAF) CN-235 military transport aircraft converted to a maritime patrol platform.
Curtiss-Wright Corporation has been awarded contracts valued in excess of $220 million to provide propulsion valves, pumps and advanced instrumentation and control systems for the US Navy’s submarines and aircraft carriers.
Royal Navy’s first Type 26 anti-submarine frigate HMS Glasgow will enter the water later this year, shipbuilding company BAE Systems has confirmed.
The Canadian Coast Guard has awarded a vessel life extension contract for the Canadian Coast Guard icebreaker CCGS George R. Pearkes to Ontario-based Heddle Shipyards.
Rotary unmanned aerial systems (RUAS) supplier Steadicopter has won a contract to provide its Black Eagle 5O electric unmanned helicopter for the Israeli Navy. The Black Eagle Electric family is the first family of unmanned helicopters that are powered by an electric motor. The model Black Eagle 50,
Defence companies Rolls-Royce and Safran Power Units have jointly signed an assessment phase contract with MBDA, as part of the Franco-British Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon (FC/ASW) program.
Indian Navy has decommissioned INS Sindhudhvaj, the Russian-built Kilo-class submarine, after 35 years of service. The decommissioning event took place on 16 July and was attended by 15 of the former commanding officers and 26 commissioning crew veterans. The Sindhudhvaj submarine had many firsts du
Belfast-based shipyard Harland & Wolff famous for building the Titanic has been awarded a contract to regenerate an ex-Royal Navy mine-hunting vessel, HMS Quorn.
The fourth phase of sea trials for the Indian Navy’s indigenous aircraft carrier (IAC) Vikrant has been successfully completed on 10 July.
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has launched Musherib, the first-in-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) ordered by the Qatari Ministry of Defence.
