The US Navy commissioned its newest Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Frank E. Petersen, Jr. (DDG 121) on 14 May in Charleston, South Carolina.
USNS John Lewis (T-AO 205), the US Navy’s lead ship of its new class of fleet replenishment oilers, conducted acceptance trials last month.
The US Marine Corps has awarded British defense company BAE Systems a contract for 14 amphibious combat vehicle command (ACV-C) vehicles.
The Coast Guard has commissioned the 48th Sentinel-class fast response cutter (FRC) Pablo Valent (WPC 1148) into service at Coast Guard Sector St. Petersburg, Florida.
The US Navy has christened its newest Freedom-variant littoral combat ship (LCS), the future USS Beloit (LCS 29), during a ceremony held at Marinette, Wisconsin.
In a historic moment for the US Navy’s European and African operational region, a Freedom-variant littoral combat ship, USS Sioux City (LCS 11), deployed to the U.S. Sixth Fleet’s area of operations.
American shipbuilding, ship repair, and industrial service provider Vigor has completed a comprehensive modernisation of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS McCampbell at Swan Island.
The U.S. Navy has exercised a $230.5 million fixed-price incentive contract option for the detailed design and construction of expeditionary fast transport (EPF) 16 by shipbuilder Austal USA.
US naval shipbuilder Huntington Ingalls Industries (HHI) said that US Navy’s Virginia-class submarine New Jersey (SSN 796) was recently launched into the James River at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division.
US-based shipbuilder Eastern Shipbuilding Group (ESG) has received a contract from the U.S. Coast Guard to begin construction of the fourth Heritage-class offshore patrol cutter (OPC), the future USCGC Rush (WMSM 918).
The US Coast Guard has commissioned the USCGC Clarence Sutphin Jr. (WPC 1147), Patrol Forces Southwest Asia’s (PATFORSWA) sixth Sentinel-class fast response cutter (FRC), into service at the Intrepid Sea, Air and Space Museum in New York City.
Global aerospace company Embraer has delivered the final modernized AF-1 fighter jet (AF-1B) to the Brazilian Navy.
The US Navy has awarded Raytheon Missiles & Defence an activation, sustainment, and modernization contract for the navy’s Zumwalt-class destroyer.
The New Zealand Defence Force has finalised a sale of 22 New Zealand light armoured vehicles (NZLAVs) to the Chilean Navy for use by their Marine Corps.
