US Navy's Ghost Fleet Overlord program enters next phase

The US Navy’s office for unmanned and small combatants has started the next phase of the Ghost Fleet Overlord ...
read more →Keel laid for littoral combat ship Savannah (LCS 28)

US shipbuilder Austal hosted a keel-laying ceremony for the future littoral combat ship USS Savannah (LCS 28) at ...
read more →Vigor lays keel for US Army's next generation landing craft

The new craft will replace the Mike Boats which started entering service in 1959.
read more →Indian Navy Tejas aces first ever arrested landing

A naval version of the Hindustan Aeronautics Limited-built Tejas light fighter (LCA) made history on September 13 ...
read more →Australia's final AWD destroyer begins sea trials

The Royal Australian Navy’s third Air Warfare Destroyer (AWD), future HMAS Sydney, has started the first ...
read more →Babcock nets Royal Navy Type 31 frigate contract

The Royal Navy has picked Babcock’s Arrowhead 140 proposal as the preferred design for its Type 31 frigates. ...
read more →US Navy issues RFP for large unmanned surface vessels

The US Navy has released a request for proposals with the aim of awarding multiple conceptual design contracts in ...
read more →TKMS develops 4th generation fuel cell system for submarines

The system was put through its paces with over 70,000 operating hours in the test environment.
read more →TKMS, Kongsberg introduce new submarine combat system

kta naval systems, a joint venture of Germany’s thyssenkrupp Marine Systems and Norway’s Kongsberg, has ...
read more →US Navy's first Next Generation Jammer arrives for testing

The US Navy has received its first Next Generation Jammer (NGJ) pod to start tests with the US Navy’s Air ...
read more →TKMS introducing 3D printing to submarine construction

German submarine specialist thyssenkrupp Marine Systems has been cleared to introduce additive manufacturing to ...
read more →Virginia-class submarine Delaware completes builder's trials

The US Navy’s eighteenth Virginia-class submarine, Delaware (SSN 791), has returned to Newport News after ...
read more →Australian's second Supply-class tanker launched in Spain

Spanish shipbuilder Navantia has launched the second of two Royal Australian Navy auxiliary oiler replenishment ...
read more →Canadian frigate Montreal concludes year-long upgrade

The frigate was overhauled at Irving Shipbuilding's Halifax shipyard.
read more →JFD acquires Dutch Ortega Submersibles

UK-based commercial and defense diving company JFD announced it has bought all the assets, IP and designs rights of ...
read more →Construction begins on second Royal Navy Type 26 frigate

Construction of the second of eight Royal Navy Type 26 frigates has gotten underway with a ceremony on the river ...
read more →USS Gerald R. Ford completes propulsion plant repairs

It took the navy and shipbuilder over a year to repair the troubled propulsion system.
read more →US clears sale of MH-60R helicopters to South Korea

The US state department has approved the sale of twelve MH-60R multi-mission helicopters to the Republic of Korea. ...
read more →US Navy tests unique vertical take-off UAV

The US Military Sealift Command’s expeditionary fast transport vessel USNS Spearhead (T-EPF 1) headed out to sea ...
read more →BAE Systems completes autonomous RIB trials

UK defense technology company BAE Systems has completed “one-of-a-kind” trials of the autonomous ...
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