The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has signed a contract with defense company Saab for an additional AUV62-AT autonomous anti-submarine warfare (ASW) training target.
The bow section of the third logistic support ship (LSS) for the French Navy, Emile Bertin, has been launched at Italian shipyard Fincantieri.
The United States Coast Guard (US Coast Guard) has exercised options with shipbuilder Austal USA for the Offshore Patrol Cutter (OPC) program.
The US Navy has accepted delivery of the ship-to-shore connector, landing craft, air cushion (LCAC) 114, from Textron Systems, following successful acceptance trials.
Australia has delivered a new landing craft vessel to Tonga, with an official handover ceremony taking place at the Masefield Naval Base.
The Royal Australian Navy has held a keel-laying ceremony for the sixth and final Arafura-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV).
Austal USA has launched the company’s first landing craft utility (LCU) vessel built for the US Navy at its ship manufacturing facility in Mobile, Alabama.
The Norwegian Government has selected the United Kingdom as a strategic partner for the acquisition of new vessels based on the Royal Navy’s Type 26 frigates, which will be ‘the largest’ Norwegian defense capability investment to date.
Dutch shipbuilding major Damen Naval has signed a contract with compatriot steel supplier De Jong & Lavino for the delivery of all steel materials needed to build the PES (Plataforma Estratégica de Superficie) frigate for the Colombian Navy.
The keel for the future USS Wisconsin (SSBN 827), the US Navy’s second Columbia-class submarine, was laid during a ceremony on August 27, 2025, at the General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB), Quonset Point facility in Kingstown, Rhode Island.
Blue Water Autonomy has secured $50 million in Series A funding, led by GV, to support the construction of unmanned vessels.
Two multi-mission stealth frigates of Project 17A, INS Udaygiri and INS Himgiri, were commissioned into the Indian Navy on August 26, 2025.
Shipbuilder Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) has held a steel-cutting ceremony for the Finnish Navy’s third Pohjanmaa-class corvette.
Classification society ABS has awarded classification to the Saildrone Surveyor, a fully autonomous deepwater unmanned surface vehicle (USV).
