China Launches New 10,000 Ton Guided Missile Destroyer
The Chinese Navy's new locally-made destroyer, a 10,000-tonne vessel , equipped with latest air defense, anti-missile, anti-ship and anti-submarine weapon systems, was launched Wednesday at Jiangnan Shipyard Group, Shanghai. The destroyer is the first of China's new generation of destroyers
Huntington Ingalls To Supply Air, Missile Defense Radar To US Navy’s DDG...
Huntington Ingalls Industries is being awarded a contract modification for incorporation of the Flight III baseline on DDG 125 US Navy ships. The contract award amount is considered source selection sensitive information and will not be made public at this time
Austal USA Awarded US$584 M Contract To Build US Navy’s Littoral Combat...
Austal USA is being awarded a Congressional cost cap of $584,200,000 contract for the construction of a littoral combat ship (LCS). The contract also includes options for the construction of additional LCS, class services, and post-delivery availability support, a US DOD release said
Raytheon Receives US$652 Million Contract For Standard Missile-2 Used In AEGIS
Raytheon has received a $652-million contract to equip the US Navy and allied navies with the Standard Missile-2 used in the AEGIS missile defense system, the US Department of Defense announced yesterday. "Raytheon Missile Systems is being awarded a $617,633,351 fixed-price-incentive firm, firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for procurement of fiscal 2017...
Huntington Ingalls Awarded $3 Billion For US Marines’ Amphibious Assault Ship, LHA
Huntington Ingalls Awarded $3 Billion Contract For US Marines Amphibious Assault Ship Huntington Ingalls Industries was yesterday awarded a US$3 billion contract for the detail design and construction of the amphibious assault ship Bougainville (LHA 8). Ingalls was awarded the original long-lead material contract for the third ship in the America (LHA...
Damen Wins Pakistan Navy Contract To Build Offshore Patrol Vessel
Karachi Shipyard will build an indigenous Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) for the Pakistan Navy with help from Damen Shipyard of The Netherlands. A contract to this effect was signed at Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works Ltd yesterday by MD KS&EW Rear Admiral Hasan Nasir Shah, DMP Navy Cdre Shafqat Azad SI(M), and representatives of Damen (The Netherlands) in MoDP, Rawalpindi
General Atomics Wins Future US Navy Carrier Aircraft Arresting Gear Contract
General Atomics (GA) has been awarded a production contract modification for the Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) for the future Gerald R. Ford-class aircraft carrier Enterprise (CVN 80)
Four Russian Ships Escorted By Royal Navy On English Channel
A Royal Navy warship ‘HMS Mersey has escorted several Russian ships through the English Channel over the weekend. The incident - described as "routine business" for the navy - is the fourth such incident in the past two months
Chinese Submarine Procurement ‘Clear and Above-board’, Says Thai Auditor-General
Thailands Office of the Auditor-General (OAG) has concluded that the procurement of three Chinese-built submarines was clean and transparent. The Royal Thai Navy and a Chinese submarine supplier signed the procurement contract in China on May 5 which involves the purchase of a 13
Fincantieri's Fourth Todaro-Class Submarine Delivered To Italian Navy
Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has delivered the new Type U212A Todaro-class submarine Romeo Romei to the Italian Navy's NAVARM naval armament unit The submarine, which was delivered at the company's shipyard in Muggiano located at La Spezia of Italy, is the last of the four Todaro-class twin units ordered by NAVARM, the company announced Thursday. Its other twin unit, Pietro Venuti, was delivered to the navy at the Muggiano shipyard in July last year
Japan Plans To Sail 'Izuma' Warship In South China Sea
Japan has plans to send its ‘Izumo' helicopter carrier on a three-month tour through the South China Sea beginning in May. The countrys largest warship will make stops in Singapore, Indonesia, the Philippines and Sri Lanka before joining the Malabar joint naval exercise with Indian and US naval vessels in the Indian Ocean in July
China's Home-made Aircraft Carrier Ready For Launch, To Enter Service in 2
Chinas home-made aircraft carrier, the Type 001A is ready for launch but it entry into service will take a further two years as the ship will be outfitted with weapons and systems before sea trials are held. State-owned China Mil website reported quoting China Central Television (CCTV) that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy's Type 001A class aircraft carrier's scaffold has been removed and red undercoat has been painted below the ship's waterline in Dalian, Liaoning Province
Switzerland Joins EU's Military Mobility Project
Dutch Chinook, Apache Helicopters to Get New Communication Systems for Secure, Fast...
Indonesia Plans PT Pindad-PT Dahana Consortium for Propellant Factory to Boost Ammo...
U.S. Navy Awards $85M Contract to BAE Systems for Data Link Systems...
Russian Su-57 and Chinese J-20 as Alternatives to the American F-35 Stealth Fighter
As the Russian Su-57 stealth fighter jet enters serial production, the debate over how it stacks up against the American...
NATO’s Intensified Exercises a Prep to Attack Russia?
Recent NATO exercises such as the BALTOPS-24, Steadfast Defender 2024 and its first-ever Basic Fighter Maneuvers exercise have been its...
Precision in the Skies: The Evolution of Loitering Munitions
Loitering munitions - drones that hover over a target and blow up near it - have become the weapon of...
Is the Patriot Air Defense System Outdated?
After Israel revealed its decision to decommission its U