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Naval Warfare
Naval Warfare Preview 2025: Billion-dollar programmes will advance but unpredictable forces muddy the waters
Large programmes around the world are likely to be immune to flux, but the impact of geopolitics could be unprecedented in 2025.
Naval Warfare
UK-Australia meeting creates new AUKUS submarine integration office
The latest AUKMIN meeting created an important administrative office for submarine delivery.
Naval Warfare
Naval Warfare Review 2024: Business as usual overshadowed by geopolitics and budgets, but innovation promised solutions
There was solid programme advancement around the world in 2024, but a combination of more threats, fleet unreadiness and a financial squeeze darkened naval horizons as the year advanced.
Naval Warfare
USS Zumwalt undocked after supersonic weapons upgrade
The vessel will be the first in the US fleet to carry the Conventional Prompt Strike capability.
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Naval Warfare
Autonomous Mine Hunting: Supplying the British Solution (Studio)
Navies around the world are increasingly looking at autonomous systems for the mine countermeasures (MCM) mission.
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Defence Notes
Opinion: Indo-Pacific submarine proliferation affects safety
24th January 2018
The Indo-Pacific will be a focal point of submarine proliferation in coming years, with an estimated 250 boats expected to be operating in the region …
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Special Operations
French Navy using FusionSight
23rd January 2018
Bertin Instruments’ FusionSight handheld night and day vision device has been deployed by the French Navy in the Caribbean. According to the company the device …
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Special Operations
SHOT Show 2018: Precision fire system for international SOF applications
23rd January 2018
Paradigm SRP has used the background venue of this week’s Shooting, Hunting and Outdoor Trade (SHOT) Show, in Las Vegas, Nevada, to demonstrate the capabilities …
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Military Logistics
USS Fitzgerald arrives for repairs
23rd January 2018
The Arleigh Burke-class guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald has arrived in Pascagoula, Mississippi, for repair and upgrade work.USS Fitzgerald arrived aboard heavy lift vessel MV …
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Naval Warfare
L&T launches second coast guard OPV
23rd January 2018
Larsen and Tourbo (L&T;) has launched the second in a series of seven offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) being built for the Indian Coast Guard, the …
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Naval Warfare
ADECS 2018: Piracy report released
23rd January 2018
A new annual international piracy report issued by the International Maritime Bureau (IMB) under the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC), and covering 2017, indicated that …
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Naval Warfare
ADECS 2018: Malaysia realigns naval assets to improve security in the east
23rd January 2018
The Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) will permanently station four of its six Kedah-class Next Generation Patrol Vessels (NGPV) and four yet-to-be-constructed Littoral Mission Ships (LMS) …
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Digital Battlespace
ADECS 2018: Chinese EW capabilities roll inexorably onwards
23rd January 2018
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) is on the verge of commissioning its seventh intelligence collection vessel. The Type 815A spy ship was launched at …
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Naval Warfare
ADECS 2018: Taiwan pursues indigenous submarines
23rd January 2018
The Republic of China Navy (ROCN) launched its Indigenous Defence Submarine (IDS) programme in 2016, the goal being to build eight submarines within a decade. …
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Military Logistics
ADECS 2018: Australia hunts for new hydrographic survey ship
23rd January 2018
The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) continues its search for a new hydrographic survey ship, with an invitation to register going out to industry for suitable …
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Naval Warfare
ADECS 2018: JMSDF anticipates new and smaller destroyers
23rd January 2018
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) had 47 destroyers in 2013, but it plans to boost its fleet to 54 by 2023 by introducing a …
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Naval Warfare
ADECS 2018: OCEA selling into the Philippines
23rd January 2018
French shipyard OCEA has announced the sale of a single 84m OPV 270 vessel and four 24m FPB 72 Mk II patrol boats to the …
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Defence Notes
ADECS 2018: Babcock contributes to South Korean submarines
23rd January 2018
Babcock International has already commenced manufacture of weapons handling and launch equipment in fulfilment of a contract to equip South Korean KSS-III conventional submarines, each …
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Naval Warfare
USCG orders 20 RB-S IIs
22nd January 2018
The US Coast Guard (USCG) has issued an $8 million order to Metal Shark Aluminum Boats for the supply of 20 response boats-small II (RB-S …
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Digital Battlespace
Philippine C4ISTAR contract awarded
22nd January 2018
The US has contracted Harris Corporation to deliver a C4ISTAR system to the Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), with the FMS deal priced at …
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Special Operations
Japan highlights SOF capabilities
22nd January 2018
The Japan Ground-Self Defense Force’s (JGSDF) Special Forces Group (SFG) conducted a capability demonstration in front of both the Japanese and Australian prime ministers on …
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Special Operations
New life preserver sought for US Army parachute ops
22nd January 2018
Representatives at the US Army’s Natick Soldier System Center have begun the search for a new life preserver designed for use during airborne operations. According …
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Naval Warfare
Mattis heads to Asia to draw a contrast with assertive China
22nd January 2018
The US defence secretary James Mattis began a one-week trip to Asia on 21 January, hoping to strengthen defence cooperation with Indonesia and Vietnam as …
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Naval Warfare
Year of decision for Polish Navy
21st January 2018
After years of stagnation the Polish Navy in recent months seems to have found itself on the right course to become a more modern and …
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Naval Warfare Preview 2025: Billion-dollar programmes will advance but unpredictable forces muddy the waters
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Saab Sea Giraffe to protect Swedish Navy
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Northrop gets $3.5 billion contract to integrate mission systems for E-6B successor
