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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.
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UK-Australia meeting creates new AUKUS submarine integration office
The latest AUKMIN meeting created an important administrative office for submarine delivery.
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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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Defence Notes
Analysis: PLA Navy edges toward owning Asia-Pacific
13th July 2017
China is producing naval vessels at a rate that will soon see the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) eclipse the US Navy (USN) in force …
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Military Logistics
China preps ‘logistics base’ in Djibouti
13th July 2017
Chinese ships and troops departed the port of Zhanjiang, Guangdong Province on 11 July, destined for a new so-called ‘logistics facility’ that Beijing is currently …
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Digital Battlespace
Northrop to deliver SATCOMs for ADF
13th July 2017
Northrop Grumman has received a contract worth AUD$223 million to build a satellite ground station and a wideband satellite communications (SATCOM) network management system for …
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Uncrewed Vehicles
Hugin AUV available in package
12th July 2017
Kongsberg has released its Hugin autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) as part of a package that includes all supporting operational equipment, the company announced on 6 …
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Defence Notes
Northrop wins US Navy torpedo arrays contract
11th July 2017
Northrop Grumman has received a contract worth $9.6 million from the US Navy to produce 45 Transducer Array/Nose Shell Assemblies for the MK 48 heavyweight torpedo, …
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Defence Notes
Air Power 2017: UK F-35 training takes off
11th July 2017
Preparations for the F-35B Lightning II's arrival to the UK continue apace with the announcement on 5 July that 207 Squadron will be training future Royal Air …
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Naval Warfare
Turkish Coast Guard receives SAR vessels
11th July 2017
Damen has delivered the first two of six Search and Rescue (SAR) 1906 vessels to the Turkish Coast Guard (TCG), the company announced on 7 …
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Naval Warfare
SharpEye radar for two Indonesian Ports
11th July 2017
Two ports in Indonesia have selected variants of the Kelvin Hughes’ SBS-800 coastal surveillance radar for the management and monitoring of vessels within the ports, the company …
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Naval Warfare
Malaysian LMS team arrives in China
11th July 2017
The Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN) has despatched a project team to China to monitor the design and construction of its Littoral Mission Ships (LMS). The …
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Digital Battlespace
MARSS unveils new NiDAR C2 system
10th July 2017
MARSS has introduced a new version of its NiDAR command and control system to link multiple small and medium sized mobile platforms together, the company …
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Naval Warfare
Royal Navy locates US sonar lost at sea
10th July 2017
The UK Royal Navy’s Sandown class minehunter HMS Bangor has used its Thales 2093 Variable Depth Sonar to locate a US Navy AQS-24 towed sonar …
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Defence Helicopter
Diminished returns for UK equipment
7th July 2017
A reduction in platform numbers is a recurring theme in the UK Armed Forces Equipment and Formations publication, with the headline loss being a 37% …
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Defence Notes
First firing for MBDA’s Sea Venom
7th July 2017
MBDA’s Sea Venom/ANL anti-ship missile has successfully completed its first firing at the Île du Levant test range in France, the company announced on 4 …
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Military Logistics
HII looks toward LPD 29
6th July 2017
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has received a $218 million contract from the US Navy for material and advance construction activities for landing platform dock LPD 29. The funds …
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Naval Warfare
Russia to supply Syria with patrol boats
6th July 2017
Russia will supply up to patrol vessels and associated equipment to the Syrian coast guard to assist in its efforts to secure the country’s ports …
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Training
Qinetiq to upgrade UK MoD Hebrides radars
6th July 2017
The UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) and Qinetiq have announced a joint invest of £16.8m for two new BAE Systems tracking radars at MoD Hebrides, Qinetiq announced …
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Naval Warfare
Analysis: Piracy in the Indian Ocean
6th July 2017
Following the hijacking of the Aris 13 in March, the first merchant vessel to be taken by pirates operating from Somalia since May 2012, at …
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Military Logistics
Portland completes builder’s trials
5th July 2017
The US Navy’s upcoming San Antonio class amphibious transport dock, the future USS Portland (LPD 27), has successfully completed builder’s trials following four days of operations …
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Digital Battlespace
Hensoldt to acquire Kelvin Hughes
5th July 2017
German sensor house Hensoldt is set to acquire UK radar company Kelvin Hughes from UK private equity firm ECI and management, Hensoldt announced on 30 June. …
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