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.
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.
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).
The Russian Navy’s first Project 20385 « Gremyashchiy » corvette started sea trials, the Severnaya Verf shipbuilder reported on April 21.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Engineers are finding more and more inspiration in the animal kingdom to design next-generation drones. At LIMA 2019, held in Lankgawi from 26-30 March, the China Electronics Technology Group (CETC) is presenting a new concept of fish-inspired underwater autonomous system dubbed FishBot-A100
TAIS unveiled its proposal for the Royal Malaysian Navy’s potential Multirole Support Ship (MRSS) request, Naval News spotted today at LIMA 2019 exhibition. The RMN « 15 to 5 » transformation program involves the acquisition of three MRSS ships, the two first of which being delivered between 2021-2025 and the third one by 2035 – Naval News.
