The French Navy has received the seventh Atlantique 2 (ATL2) maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) upgraded to standard 6 and the second ATL2 modernized by Service industriel de l’aéronautique (SIAé).
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has held a keel laying of the new amphibious vessel (landing platform dock – LPD) ordered by the Qatari Ministry of Defence within the national naval acquisition program.
Defence company Babcock International has been awarded a dry dock maintenance contract from the UK Government for Royal Navy’s Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carriers.
Royal Navy’s Sandown-class minehunter HMS Shoreham has departed Clyde Naval Base – its home for the past two decades – for the last time, beginning a short ‘goodbye tour’ of the UK.
The first of two new patrol boats charged with guarding the waters around Gibraltar HMS Cutlass has been commissioned into the Royal Navy fleet.
Swedish Navy’s Gävle-class corvette HMS Gävle was handed over to the navy’s 4th Flotilla last week after undergoing a mid-life upgrade conducted by defence company Saab.
The UK Government has awarded defence contracts worth more than £2 billion to defence contractors BAE Systems and Rolls-Royce to begin the third major phase of the future submarine nuclear deterrent program – Dreadnought.
The Ukrainian Navy has reportedly destroyed two Russian Navy’s Raptor-class patrol boats in the Black Sea, according to a video published by officials on 8 May.
French defence company Naval Group launched the first of the four force replenishment vessels (BRF – Bâtiments Ravitailleurs de Force in French) of the French Navy’s FLOTLOG program.
Royal Navy’s Type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan is back at sea after a major overhaul conducted by a team of specialists from defence company BAE Systems, the UK Ministry of Defence’s (MOD) Defence, Equipment and Support organizations and the navy at Portsmouth Naval Base.
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.
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has delivered Damsah, the second of four Al Zubarah-class corvettes, to the Qatari Ministry of Defence.
The future Royal Navy fleet has started to take shape as the construction of the first of five new Type 31 frigates began.
Last week, the Finnish and Swedish navies conducted a joint anti-submarine warfare exercise in the Gulf of Finland.
