In a first, a French Navy frigate crossed the Taiwan Strait
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) Floréal-class surveillance frigate Vendémiaire (F734) crossed the Taiwan Strait earlier this month, Reuters revealed yesterday.
25 Apr 2019
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) Floréal-class surveillance frigate Vendémiaire (F734) crossed the Taiwan Strait earlier this month, Reuters revealed yesterday.
25 Apr 2019
The Bulgarian Ministry of Defence informed that three companies decided to make a bid in the ongoing tender for new modular patrol vessels. The preferred bidder should be announced this summer.
24 Apr 2019
The latest edition of the LIMA defense show, held in April in Malaysia, was also the occasion chosen by the France-based company Zodiac Milpro to introduce its ZH1300 Interceptor fast assault craft to Asian customers. A platform as powerful as modular, intended to become the perfect « Swiss army knife » for the ASEAN region police and military forces.
24 Apr 2019
LIG Nex1 officially opened a new Goalkeeper CIWS maintenance facility at the company’s Gumi plant on Tuesday, April 16. The ceremony was attended by Kwon Byung-Hyun, LIG Next 1 Production Division General Manager and Geert van der Molen, Vice-President of Thales Netherland.
23 Apr 2019
The UK MoD’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL) on April 16 launched a competition aiming at « developing the Royal Navy’s autonomous underwater capability » by studying he utility and operational boundaries of Extra-Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicles (XLUUVs).
23 Apr 2019
The Russian Navy’s first Project 20385 « Gremyashchiy » corvette started sea trials, the Severnaya Verf shipbuilder reported on April 21.
28 Mar 2019
The Malaysian shipyard Muhibbah Engineering introduced a multirole variant of its commercial Offshore Support Vessel design at the LIMA 2019 exhibition. As the name implies, the Multi-Purpose Mission Ship (MPMS) is designed to perform a wide range of tasks. Its utmost important role is to act as a mothership for smaller vessels and day/night operations.
28 Mar 2019
The Royal Malaysian Navy's fleets of Super Lynx Mk 100 and AS 555 SN Fennec (renamed H125M) helicopters are celebrating 15 years of operational service, the service praised today at LIMA Aerospace and Maritime exhibition in Langkawi, Malaysia.
27 Mar 2019
Thales is for the very first time promoting its brand new NS50 AESA radar in Asia, during the LIMA 2019 aerospace and maritime exhibition held in Langkawi. The lighter NS50 could definitely meet a growing need from local navies for smaller ships.
27 Mar 2019
As situation in the Eastern Sabah Security Zone (ESSZONE) remains challenging the RMN and the MMEA (Malaysian Coast Guard) might opt to procure a further two mobile sea bases to complement the existing ones: the PL Tun Sharifah Rodziah which is based on a rig and the KA Tun Azizan which is actually a large surface vessel.