Certo Aerospace has demonstrated a new anti-submarine warfare capability for the Royal Navy, using its CAPSTONE vertical take-off and landing uncrewed air system (VTOL UAS) in a flight test at Keevil Airfield.
Defense company MBDA has carried out a new development test of its AKERON LP missile, demonstrating advanced guidance and data transmission capabilities during an engagement against a moving sea target.
US President Donald Trump has ordered the US Navy to block ships from entering or leaving the Strait of Hormuz.
The US Navy has welcomed a new Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer to the fleet, USS Harvey C. Barnum Jr. (DDG 124), during a commissioning ceremony at Naval Station Norfolk.
US naval forces have begun an operation to clear sea mines from the Strait of Hormuz, marking a new phase in Washington’s attempt to reopen one of the world’s most strategically vital waterways after weeks of conflict with Iran.
The British military has exposed a covert Russian submarine operation in and around UK waters, forcing the vessels to retreat back to Russia, the UK Ministry of Defense revealed.
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division has laid the keel for the future USS Jeremiah Denton (DDG 129), a US Navy’s Flight III Arleigh-Burke class destroyer.
South Korea’s LIG Nex1 has been selected to develop an improved variant of the K745 Cheong Sangeo (Blue Shark) lightweight anti-submarine torpedo.
US Navy’s Arleigh Burke-class destroyer USS Fitzgerald (DDG 62) has launched a Standard Missile 3 (SM-3) Block IA as part of Pacific Dragon 22 (PD22), a biennial exercise in the Hawaiian Islands operating area.
The US Navy has conducted the sea phase of exercise Garuda Shield 2022 in the Natuna Sea with the Indonesian Navy and the Republic of Singapore Navy.
The US Navy’s Ticonderoga-class guided-missile cruiser USS Leyte Gulf (CG 55) departed Naval Station Norfolk for deployment on 8 August.
The US Navy has hired six defense companies for continued studies of a large unmanned surface vessel (USV) design.
Admiralty Shipyards, a subsidiary of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), has begun the final stage of sea trials of the second Lada-class (Project 677) submarine Kronstadt (B-586) built for the Russian Navy.
The world’s largest international maritime exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2022 concluded on 4 August following more than a month of realistic, relevant combined operations training conducted in and around the Hawaiian Islands and Southern California.
