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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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Special Operations
MARSOC expands canine combat medicine
14th December 2017
Operators from the US Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command (MARSOC) have become the first US Special Forces personnel to begin battlefield medicine training with …
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Digital Battlespace
GA-EMS receives ARGOS contract
13th December 2017
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) has received a contract from Advanced Technology International for the Army Resilient Global on-the-move SATCOM (ARGOS), the company announced on …
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Naval Warfare
Huntington Ingalls christens NSC Midgett
13th December 2017
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ Ingalls Shipbuilding division has christened the US Coast Guard's eighth Legend-class National Security Cutter (NSC) USCGC Midgett, the company announced on 9 …
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Digital Battlespace
Northrop awarded LTAMDS work
13th December 2017
Northrop Grumman has received a contract from the US Army’s Lower Tier Programme Office to perform work under the Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense …
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Naval Warfare
GDA 2017: Lurssen highlights shipbuilding capabilities (video)
13th December 2017
Fresh from what some perceived as an unlikely victory in the Australian Sea 1180 programme, German ship designer and builder Lurssen arrived at Gulf Defence …
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Defence Notes
Analysis: China’s AI revolution threatens US
12th December 2017
A new report from the Washington-based Center for a New American Security raised the alert level of the US defence community over China’s rise as …
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Naval Warfare
Canada boosts maritime fleet
12th December 2017
Canada’s National Shipbuilding Strategy (NSS), implemented in 2010, delivered some of its first fruits in December 2017 with the assembly of the first Arctic and …
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Naval Warfare
Ukraine gains four more Gyurza-M boats
12th December 2017
The Ukrainian Navy is set to take delivery of four more Project 58155 Gyurza-M armoured artillery boats alongside announcing ambitious plans for building of a …
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Defence Notes
Thales, Cotecmar strengthen partnership
11th December 2017
Thales has renewed its partnership agreement with Colombia’s Cotecmar to cooperate on capabilities for the Colombian defence industry. The deal, which continues a partnership originally …
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Defence Notes
South Korea boosts spending, ISR and retaliatory measures
11th December 2017
South Korea has created new units – including an ISR formation and a special forces decapitation brigade – in response to the threat from its …
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Uncrewed Vehicles
Teledyne participates in Iceland’s EOD exercise
11th December 2017
Teledyne Gavia and Teledyne SeaBotix have participated in exercise Northern Challenge 2017 in Iceland - an annual Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) multinational exercise that supports …
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Military Logistics
GSL delivers fuel barge to Indian Navy
11th December 2017
Goa Shipyard (GSL) has delivered the second of four 1,000t fuel barges to the Indian Navy (IN). The self-propelled fuel barge was delivered on 2 …
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Naval Warfare
Vietnam eyes SAR vessels from Poland
8th December 2017
The Vietnam Coast Guard (VCG) is eyeing six new search and rescue (SAR) vessels following a framework loan agreement struck between Hanoi and Warsaw. The …
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Defence Notes
Opinion: Is carrier commissioning the beginning of the end for UK shipbuilding?
7th December 2017
Thursday 7 December marks the day when the ‘Queen Elizabeth’ is commissioned as the Royal Navy’s newest aircraft carrier. It will have been over 30 …
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Digital Battlespace
Raytheon's GPS receiver tested aboard B-2
7th December 2017
The US Air Force (USAF) has tested its next-generation military-code Global Positioning System (GPS) using a Raytheon receiver aboard a B-2 Spirit aircraft, the company …
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Naval Warfare
EfficientFlow project receives EU funding
7th December 2017
A new Sea Traffic Management (STM) project called EfficientFlow has received $5.3 million European Union (EU)funding from the Interreg Central Baltic programme. The EfficientFlow project …
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Defence Helicopter
Seahawks needed yesterday, says frustrated Indian Navy
7th December 2017
The Indian Navy (IN) is exasperated. Years of procrastination and delays in awarding a contract for 16 S-70B multirole helicopters (MRH), an RfP for which …
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Naval Warfare
Canada warns against stealth frigate proposals
6th December 2017
The Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) project encountered its latest rough patch as the Canadian government moved to publicly reject proposals not submitted through the formal process. The …
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Naval Warfare
GDA 2017: Saudi LCS programme nets contract
6th December 2017
The reported deal to sell up to four Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) to Saudi Arabia looks to be gaining momentum following a US DoD contract …
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Navantia signs deal to supply new Avante 2200 corvettes to Saudi Arabia
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Saab Sea Giraffe to protect Swedish Navy
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Naval Warfare Preview 2025: Billion-dollar programmes will advance but unpredictable forces muddy the waters
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Northrop gets $3.5 billion contract to integrate mission systems for E-6B successor
