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South American shipyards end 2024 positively as regional navies bet on local manufacturers
The year ends with several South American navies undergoing ambitious programmes to modernise their fleets. A common denominator is that regional services want domestically manufactured surface vessels and even submarines.
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.
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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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Military Logistics
UK expands GCC presence
30th August 2017
Michael Fallon, UK Defence Secretary, signed a memorandum of understanding and services agreement with Oman’s Minister Responsible for Defence Affairs securing the UK’s use of …
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Digital Battlespace
Hensoldt’s 3D radar demos detection capabilities
29th August 2017
Hensoldt’s Spexer 2000 3D radar has proved its detection capabilities against asymmetric threats during two customer demonstrations held in real operational conditions. During the first …
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Naval Warfare
Taiwan’s coast guard outlines 10-year buildup
29th August 2017
Taiwan’s Executive Yuan approved the Coast Guard Administration’s TWD$50 billion ($1.7 billion) ‘Forward-looking Vessels Buildup Plan’ on 23 August, which will see 141 cutters – …
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Naval Warfare
HII selected to repair USS Fitzgerald
28th August 2017
Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division has been selected by the US Navy to repair the guided missile destroyer USS Fitzgerald when it returns …
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Naval Warfare
Russian Navy orders Kalashnikov craft
26th August 2017
The Russian Navy has placed an order for six BK-16 (Project 02510) fast patrol boats to be manufactured at the Rybinsk Shipyard, a subsidiary of …
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Military Logistics
USS Theodore Roosevelt carries out FAS
25th August 2017
A US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carrier, USS Theodore Roosevelt, has successfully completed a fuelling at sea (FAS) with guided-missile destroyer USS Sampson, the US Pacific …
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Special Operations
MARSOC embraces WWII heritage
25th August 2017
The recent re-designation of the US Marine Special Operations School as the Marine Raider Training Center marked a return to a traditional designation that had …
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Digital Battlespace
NSWC to receive MX-10MS turrets
25th August 2017
L3 Wescam has received an indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity (ID/IQ) contract worth up to $49 million to supply MX-10MS EO/IR imaging turrets to the US Naval Surface Warfare …
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Military Logistics
US Navy launches Hershel Woody Williams ship
25th August 2017
The US Navy has launched Expeditionary Sea Base (ESB) Hershel Woody Williams at the General Dynamics NASSCO (GD-NASSCO) shipyard, it was announced on 22 August. …
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Defence Helicopter
Modernised Ka-27Ms set for delivery
25th August 2017
Russian Helicopters is set to begin delivery of modernised Ka-27M helicopters to the Russian Ministry of Defence, with the first aircraft having completed factory testing, the …
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Defence Helicopter
Kongsberg wins Sea King maintenance contract
25th August 2017
Kongsberg Defence Systems has signed a framework agreement with the Norwegian Defence Logistics Organisation for gearbox maintenance on Norway's Sea King helicopters, the company announced …
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Naval Warfare
Malaysia launches first LCS
25th August 2017
Malaysia’s first Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), Maharaja Lela, was launched in a formal ceremony on 24 August at the Boustead Naval Shipyard facility in Lumut. …
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Land Warfare
DARPA’s MFP to counter small UAS
24th August 2017
DARPA has awarded Phase 1 agreements for its Mobile Force Protection (MFP) programme to three teams led by Dynetics, Saab and SRC, the agency announced on …
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Digital Battlespace
QNA demos underwater Dolphin technology
24th August 2017
QinetiQ North America (QNA) has successfully demonstrated full-duplex underwater acoustic data communications using its new Dolphin technology, the company announced on 22 August. The demonstration …
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Naval Warfare
Sonardyne’s Sentinel for CNI facility
24th August 2017
Sonardyne International’s Sentinel underwater intruder detection sonar system has been installed at the site of a new critical national infrastructure (CNI) facility in the Middle …
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Uncrewed Vehicles
HII's Proteus demos battle space capabilities
23rd August 2017
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has demonstrated the performance of its Proteus dual-mode undersea vehicle as part of the US Navy-hosted Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (ANTX) …
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Naval Warfare
Mauritius commissions FPV Valiant
23rd August 2017
The Mauritius National Coast Guard has commissioned its new Water Jet fast patrol vessel (FPV) CGS Valiant, in Port Louis, it was announced on 16 …
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Military Logistics
Indian Navy commissions second Mk-IV LCU
23rd August 2017
The Indian Navy has commissioned its second indigenously designed Mk-IV class Landing Craft Utility (LCU) vessel at Port Blair, India, it was announced on 21 …
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Digital Battlespace
Globecomm systems for USS Gerald R Ford
22nd August 2017
The US Navy’s new aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R Ford, has been equipped with a Globecomm multi-functional communications system along with the first internet protocol …
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