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.
French tech company iXblue and compatriot defence firm ECA Group have demonstrated subsea asset tracking in the shallow waters of the Baltic Sea in Poland’s Gdynia harbor.
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.
Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigate HMS Kent has undergone an overhaul and is gearing up for its first deployment since accompanying the navy’s aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth and the carrier strike group to the Pacific Rim and back.
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.
Germany’s shipbuilder thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has handed over INS Oz, the second of four corvettes ordered by the Israeli Navy.
Finland’s technology group Wärtsilä has announced the divestment of shares in Wärtsilä ELAC Nautik GmbH to Cohort plc, a UK listed company specializing in defense, security and related market sectors. The Germany-based company which focuses on naval surface ship and submarine sonar systems will be s
US defense contractor Lockheed Martin recently signed an agreement with Spanish shipbuilder Navantia to equip five new F-110 multimission frigates and their land-based test site with Lockheed Martin’s first naval installation of its solid state S-band radar. The five new frigates will be built by Sp
The wreck of SMS Scharnhorst, a sunken armored battlecruiser of the German Navy, has been located off the Falkland Islands, the Falklands Maritime Heritage Trust said. The Scharnhorst, the flagship of Admiral Maximilian Graf von Spee’s East Asia Squadron, was sunk in December 1914 during the Battle
The IMX 19 (International Maritime Exercise) that took place in the Middle East recently gathered 30 ships and over 50 nations for two weeks of mine countermeasures evolutions. Spread across a vast area from the Red Sea to the Indian Ocean and Gulf, the exercise will see participants sharing knowled
The French naval air station Lann-Bihoué received the first two ATL2 maritime patrol aircraft upgraded to standard 6 in late October. Carried out by Dassault Aviation, the aircraft upgrades included the installation of a Thales Search Master with active antenna, a new Thales acoustic subsystem to ga
Article by: Dorian Archus The Turkish defense industry is growing day by day. With the confidence of the success in recent years, Turkish engineers are very close to a game-changer technology, Electromagnetic Rail Gun (EMRG). According to the sources in Turkey, Turkish indigenous Rail Gun (launches
French shipbuilder Naval Group has hosted a steel-cutting ceremony for the French Navy’s first Fregate de Taille Intermediaire (FTI) frigate at its Lorient site. The lead ship in the class, to be named after the French sailor and general Pierre-Alexis Ronarc’h, is scheduled to be delivered in 2023.
The Russian Navy’s second Project 22350 frigate, Admiral Kasatonov, has begun state trials ahead of the ship’s delayed delivery which is expected to take place by the end of the year. According to the Northern Shipyard, Admiral Kasatonov has already passed a number of checkpoints, including tests of
