Spanish shipbuilding company Navantia has launched the fifth Avante 2200 corvette built for the Royal Navy of Saudi Arabia (RSNF).
The number of Royal Navy’s frigates and destroyers will return to above 19 vessels by 2026 as new ships are brought into service, Admiral Tony Radakin notes in his written evidence submitted to the Defence Select Commitee, UK.
French shipbuilding company OCEA and Ukrainian company Nibulon have signed an agreement to construct five FPB 98 patrol boats for the Ukrainian Coast Guard.
UK-based electronics company Ultra has conducted a successful update of the platform data management (PDM) for the Type 23 Royal Navy frigates.
Damen Naval, a dedicated naval shipbuilding division of the Damen Shipyards Group, has reported that the construction work on the Royal Netherlands Navy’s combat support ship (CSS) at its yard in Galati, Romania is on track.
French defense contractor Naval Group has held a keel-laying ceremony for the first of the twelve mine countermeasure (MCM) vessels of the Belgian-Dutch mine hunter (rMCM) program, intended for Belgium.
Russian Sredne-Nevsky shipyard, a part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), has launched the seventh Project 12700 Aleksandrit-class minesweeper.
On 22 November, the first multi-mission frigate with reinforced air-defense capability (FREMM-DA) Alsace was admitted to active service in the French Navy.
The French Navy has received two EDA-S amphibious standard landing crafts from compatriot equipment manufacturer CNIM.
The Estonian government has revealed plans to merge the fleets of the Police and Border Guard Board (PBGB) and the Estonian Navy by 1 January 2023.
The United States Coast Guard (USCG) has donated two Island-class patrol boats to Ukraine to reinforce the country’s navy.
The Royal Navy will retire two Type 23 frigates, HMS Monmouth and HMS Montrose, in July 2021 and July 2023 respectively, saving around £100 million ($133 million), according to written evidence submitted by Admiral Tony Radakin to the Defence Select Commitee, UK.
British arms, security, and aerospace company BAE Systems has unveiled that it is transferring more than two million digital artefacts and 90,000 documents from the UK’s Type 26 frigate program to Adelaide’s Osborne Naval Shipyard.
The Royal Navy’s Type 83 destroyer, which is planned to ultimately replace the Type 45 destroyer, will be in the concept phase in early 2022, UK officials revealed.
