![Australia: UGL Joint Venture Lands ANZAC Frigates Maintenance Contract]()
UGL Limited announced that Naval Ship Management (Australia) Pty Ltd (NSM), an incorporated 50:50 joint venture between UGL Infrastructure Pty Ltd and Babcock Pty Ltd (Babcock), has finalised contract negotiations for the ANZAC Ship Group Maintenance Contract (GMC) with the Defence Materiel Organisation. The ANZAC GMC is a new five-year contract with an end value [...]
Russian-Indian joint venture BrahMos has developed a new cruise missile capable to destroy aircraft carriers, reports Interfax on March 31 citing the company’s director Sivathanu Pillai. New version of the BrahMos missile is capable to perform final supersonic nosedive, and its operating radius is 290 km. After recent performance demonstration of the high-precision missile, the [...]
![India: Pipavav, MDL to Form Joint Venture]()
Pipavav Defence and Offshore Engineering Company (formerly Pipavav Shipyard) today said it will form a joint venture company with state-run… (economictimes) Source: economictimes, September 12, 2011;
![Russian-Indian Joint Venture BrahMos Extends Range of Supersonic Cruise Missile]()
Russian-Indian joint venture BrahMos has developed supersonic cruise missile which can be used in highlands, said the company’s president Sivathanu Pillai at the MAKS-2011 show, reports ITAR-TASS. According to Sivathanu Pillai, new missile is capable to fly following terrain. “Having passed the top of a mountain, the missile dives down at supersonic speed. We are [...]
![ThyssenKrupp Marine Denies Joint Venture Plans with French Shipyards Group DCNS]()
ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems is not planning a joint venture with the French shipyards group DCNS, nor are there any plans for a merger or other partnership or alliance with the French shipyards. No talks on this are currently being held by the companies and no talks are planned. While there have been repeated attempts to [...]
![HNLMS Mercuur Intercepts 400 Kilos of Cannabis]()
On Thursday 16 June, during a patrol for the Frontex border control operation in the Mediterranean, naval ship HNLMS Mercuur intercepted 400 kilos of cannabis. The two crew members of the boat, who threw the drugs overboard, were arrested by the Spanish authorities. HNLMS Mercuur spotted the suspect boat during a patrol. The boat [...]
