The US Navy’s only forward-deployed aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan (CVN 76) arrived in the Republic of Singapore for a scheduled port call on 22 July, marking the first time the carrier has visited the country since 2019.
American shipbuilding company Huntington Ingalls Industries has revealed that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division has been awarded a cost-plus-incentive-fee contract for engineering and design from the US Navy for the next-generation guided-missile destroyer (DDG(X)) program.
A Royal Navy warship, Type 23 frigate HMS Portland, has tracked the movements of two Russian submarines as they sailed into the North Sea.
Defence companies Rolls-Royce and Safran Power Units have jointly signed an assessment phase contract with MBDA, as part of the Franco-British Future Cruise/Anti-Ship Weapon (FC/ASW) program.
The US Marine Corps (USMC) has tested its medium-range intercept capability (MRIC) prototype integrated with Rafael’s Iron Dome ground launcher and Tamir interceptor missile.
The US State Department has made a determination approving a possible foreign military sale to the Republic of Korea of MK 54 lightweight torpedoes, the US Defence Security Cooperation Agency (DSCA) revealed.
Raytheon Missiles & Defense, a Raytheon Technologies business, has delivered SPY-6 radar arrays to the future USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), the first aircraft carrier to receive the radar.
Indian Navy has decommissioned INS Sindhudhvaj, the Russian-built Kilo-class submarine, after 35 years of service. The decommissioning event took place on 16 July and was attended by 15 of the former commanding officers and 26 commissioning crew veterans. The Sindhudhvaj submarine had many firsts du
Germany’s shipbuilder thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has handed over INS Oz, the second of four corvettes ordered by the Israeli Navy.
Mexican Navy’s POLA-class ARM Reformador, the Mexican equivalent of Damen’s SIGMA Frigate 10514, has completed sea trials, Dutch shipbuilding group Damen said. The program of sea trials included testing of platform and combat systems in addition to training of Mexican Navy crews. Damen said that the
Norfolk-based shipbuilder General Dynamics NASSCO has been awarded a USD 96.9 million contract for the execution of the USS Mason (DDG-87) fiscal year 2020 depot modernization period. The contract covers a combination of maintenance, modernization and repair of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile
Raytheon Company will build two additional shipsets of SPY-6 radars under a USD 250 million contract with the U.S. Navy, bringing its orderbook to a total of nine radar shipsets to DDG-51 Flight III destroyers. SPY-6 is a family of next generation, integrated air and missile defense radars that scal
The US Navy has signed a $2.68 billion indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (IDIQ) contract for the purchase of thousands of additional APKWS laser-guided rockets, BAE Systems said. This type of a contract enables the US Navy to purchase APKWS guidance kits over a five-year period, representing f
The US Navy has unveiled names of its two newest Virginia-class (SSN 774) fast-attack nuclear submarines. As informed, the submarines will be named after the American heroes of the Greatest Generation who perished in the former USS Oklahoma (BB-37) and USS Arizona (BB-39), bringing those names back
