Marine davit manufacturer Vestdavit has secured a contract with shipbuilder Socarenam to supply fast rescue boat davit systems for six offshore patrol vessels for the French Navy.
A US Navy T-6B Texan II trainer aircraft crashed in a residential area of Foley, Alabama, on 23 October, killing two officers and starting home and car fires.
Vital warships providing supplies and technical support to the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers will be built by British-led teams, Defence Secretary Ben Wallace has announced.
Australia and the UK have further strengthened their defence relationship by signing a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to cooperate on building and delivering the next generation of frigates.
Vessels belonging to the US, Japanese and Australian navies gathered in the South China Sea for trilateral naval exercises.
The Royal Danish Navy (Søværnet) has reclassified its two Absalon-class support ships as frigates.
Germany-based engine manufacturer MAN Energy Solutions will provide MAN 175D four-stroke engines for four corvettes under construction for the Finnish Navy.
The Royal Navy’s aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth (R08) has returned to Portsmouth following the debut of the new Carrier Strike Group which will represent Britain on the global stage for the next fifty years.
Taigei, a first unit in the Japan Maritime Self Defense Force’s (JMSDF) new class of attack submarines, has been launched and named in Japan.
The US Navy’s future Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer and Virginia-class attack submarine will be named USS John F. Lehman (DDG 137) and USS Barb (SSN 804), Kenneth J. Braithwaite, Secretary of the Navy, revealed.
Last week, Seaspan Shipyards officially delivered CCGS John Cabot, the third offshore fisheries science vessel (OFSV) to the Canadian Coast Guard.
The US Navy’s future USS Mobile (LCS 26), the 13th Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship, has completed acceptance trials in the Gulf of Mexico, Alabama-based shipbuilder Austal said. Austal Chief Executive Officer David Singleton said Mobile was the third naval ship to successfully complete accep
Alsace, the first of two multi-mission air-defense frigates in the FREMM program for the French Navy, has carried out its first sea trials.
Several days ago, the Royal Navy’s new Carrier Strike Group assembled for the first time to carry out training in the North Sea.
