The Italian Navy’s Type 212 Near Future Submarine (NFS) programme has successfully completed its critical design review (CDR). In a statement issued on 21 February, the European defence procurement agency Organisation for Joint Armament Co-operation (OCCAR) said the CDR had successfully demonstrated that the design is mature and fully compliant to mission performance...
Within the framework of teaming up with the local industrial eco system and strengthening the collaboration between Italy and Greece, Fincantieri and Leonardo have signed a number of further memorandum of understanding (MoU) with potential new Greek suppliers, setting the basis for defining possible long term business relationships. The event took place today in Elefsis,...
Turkish Defence Company ASELSAN, which provides combat systems for four platforms ASFAT builds for Pakistan Navy, exhibits its naval solutions at Pakistan International Maritime Expo & Conference (PIMEC) in Karachi. ASELSAN has ZOKA counter-torpedo solutions for navies. ZOKA effectors can operate against any torpedo threat with acoustic homing capability, regardless...
Turkish Defence Company STM attends the Pakistan International Maritime Expo & Conference (PIMEC) in Karachi with its submarine solutions. STM and Pakistan relations have become very close in the last ten years and have had fruitful results. The modernisation of French-made Agosta B submarines set the first example of it. STM exhibits its Pakistan Navy Fleet Tanker...
Thales Nederland has completed production of the first TACTICOS combat management system (CMS) shipset for the first of the UK Royal Navy’s (RN’s) Inspiration (Type 31)-class general-purpose frigates. Under a contract awarded in November 2019, UK shipbuilder Babcock, leading the ‘Team 31′ consortium, will deliver five Type 31 ships for the RN. The class...
The Australian Department of Defense has announced that the Royal Australian Navy will test a stealthy underwater drone developed by the Anduril Australia. The stealthy extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle program (XL-AUV) was named ‘Ghost Shark’ by Defence in a ceremony on Sydney Harbour on Monday. The ceremony included the arrival of a 2.8-tonne ‘Dive-LD’...
The Colombian Navy (Armada de la República de Colombia: ARC) awarded a contract to COTECMAR to build the service’s first frigate under the Strategic Surface Platform (Plataforma estratégica de superficie: PES) project on 22 November. The contract includes the construction of an ocean patrol vessel (Patrullera Oceánica Colombiana: POC) offshore patrol vessel (OPV)...
US shipbuilder HII has pulled the curtain back on its newest unmanned underwater vehicle (UUV), a platform that company officials say represents the “most capable medium-class” UUV on the market. The basic platform specifications for the new REMUS 620, such as size and weight, mirror those of the navy’s Littoral Battleship Sensing-Autonomous Undersea Vehicle...
Saudi Arabia has confirmed that its new FPB 2200 patrol boats that the French shipyard Couach is delivering are armed with LIG Nex1’s Low-Cost Guided Imaging Rocket (LOGIR) missile launcher for countering small attack boats. The Saudi Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced on 25 October that the first batch of Couach patrol boats had been delivered to the Western Fleet....
BAE Systems Naval Ships publicly displayed its Adaptable Strike Frigate (ASF) concept design for the first time at the Euronaval 2022 maritime exhibition in Paris. Developed by the company in partnership with industry partners in anticipation of the UK Royal Navy’s (RN’s) projected Type 32 programme, the ASF offers a “system of systems” approach with a...