The Royal Navy is making strides towards creating one of the world’s greenest fleets, from infrastructure in dockyards, the technology on warships and the operations carried out around the globe.
The US Navy’s San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship USS Arlington (LPD 24) and embarked Marines with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) arrived in Rijeka, Croatia, on 4 July to complete a scheduled maintenance availability.
The Royal Netherlands Navy’s amphibious transport ship Johan de Witt has gone into dry dock as part of its midlife update and appointed maintenance (BO).
Egyptian Navy’s third Gowind-class corvette has completed its first sea trials, as revealed by the French shipbuilding company Naval Group.
The class certification society DNV has granted structural approval in principle (AiP) for the Australian Maritime Alliance’s (AMA) design for the Australian Army’s LAND 8710 phase 1A littoral manoeuvre vessel – medium (LMV-M) tender.
American defence company Lockheed Martin has received a modification to a previously awarded contract for technical engineering and management efforts for the Australia Surface Combatant program.
The sailors, ships, squadrons, and staff of the US Navy’s George H. W. Bush Carrier Strike Group (CSG) successfully completed the final deployment certification exercise on 30 June.
Amur Shipbuilding Plant (Amur Shipyard, part of United Shipbuilding Corporation) has held a keel-laying ceremony for the Russian Navy’s new Gremyashchy-class (Project 20385) corvette.
The Philippine Navy’s two new fast attack interdiction craft (FAIC) boats have conducted sea trials in Israel with the navy’s inspection team onboard.
Swedish aerospace and defence company Saab has held a keel-laying ceremony for the Swedish Navy’s first Blekinge-class submarine at its shipyard in Karlskrona.
Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigate HMS Richmond is ready for a busy summer of operations after testing its mettle during exercises in Norway and around the UK.
Engineering company Indra has been contracted by Norway’s Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace to equip the combat systems of future German-Norwegian Type 212CD submarines with intelligent electronic defence systems.
Survey ship HMS Echo’s 20-year Royal Navy career formally ended on 30 June at a decommissioning ceremony at Portsmouth Naval Base.
American shipbuilding company Austal USA has been awarded a contract with a potential value of $3.3 billion for the detailed design and construction of up to 11 offshore patrol cutters (OPCs) for the US Coast Guard (USCG).
