All five Royal Navy’s Type 31 frigates will be delivered by 2028, John Howie, chief corporate affairs officer for Babcock International has revealed.
Taragiri, a Project 17A Frigate was launched at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited (MDL) in Mumbai on 11 September.
The start of fabrication of the future USS Pittsburgh (LPD 31) began at Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII), Ingalls Shipbuilding division on 7 September.
Curtiss-Wright Corporation has been awarded contracts to provide generators for the US Navy’s next-generation Columbia-class submarine.
Defence company Babcock has secured two more contracts relating to Polish Navy’s frigate program Miecznik to accelerate the construction of the new frigates.
The Philippine Navy (PN) has welcomed the two brand-new, missile-capable Shaldag Mk. V fast attack interdiction craft-missile (FAIC-M) during the christening ceremony at the Commodore Divino Pier.
The Canadian Navy has received the third Arctic and offshore patrol vessel (AOPS) HMCS Max Bernays in a ceremony held in Halifax.
On 1 September, the first of the four Scorpene submarines of the ProSub program was commissioned by the Brazilian Navy.
The Indian Navy has commissioned its first indigenously-built aircraft carrier INS Vikrant at a ceremony held at Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) in Kochi in the southern state of Kerala.
French Government Defense procurement and technology agency (DGA) has placed an order to a consortium comprising local defence companies Socarenam and CNN MCO to build the first out of six next-generation offshore patrol boats.
The US Navy has started the construction of the first Constellation-class frigate at Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM) shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin.
Canadian Navy’s Halifax-class frigate HMCS Vancouver became the first Canadian Navy vessel to tactically launch a surface off-board passive decoy (SOPD) as part of electronic warfare (EW) tactics training at the 2022 Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise.
Kongsberg Maritime Sweden has been awarded a contract by Damen Naval to supply four shipsets of controllable pitch propeller systems along with associated hubs, blades, hubcaps and shaft lines, for the German Navy’s new F-126 frigates.
Indian shipbuilding company Cochin Shipyard Limited has held a keel-laying ceremony for the Indian Navy’s first anti-submarine warfare shallow water craft (ASW SWC).
