India lays the keel of two ASW SWC ships
On December 21, 2022, the Indian Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd (GRSE) laid the keel of two Anti-submarine Warfare Shallow Crafts (ASW SWC) in Kolkata.
On December 21, 2022, the Indian Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers Ltd (GRSE) laid the keel of two Anti-submarine Warfare Shallow Crafts (ASW SWC) in Kolkata.
As 2022 comes to an end, here is an overview of the ten most-read naval defense news stories we published this past year, based on the number of readers.
The Royal Navy’s drone squadron have taken their expertise in uncrewed systems one step further by building their own quadcopter.
On December 28, 2022, Edge Group’s ADSB (Abu Dhabi Ship Building) PJSC announced the cutting steel ceremony of the first Falaj 3-class Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) for the UAE Navy.
The U.S. Navy declared full rate production of the Sikorsky CH-53K® helicopter, a decision that is expected to increase production to more than 20 helicopters annually in the coming years.

On 21 December 2022, in the frame of the NFS PC meeting, the 2nd Contract Amendment for U212 NFS was awarded by OCCAR. This is another major step towards the progressive development of the Near Future Submarine Programme.
On December 23, the Japanese MoD released its budget request for FY2023 in which we can learn further details about Japan’s future ballistic missile defense (BMD) destroyers, also known as ASEV (Aegis system-equipped vessels).
On December 23, 2022, the Russian Admiralty Shipyard ceremonially launched the third Project 677M (Lada-class) submarine, the “Velikie Luki”, for the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg. “Velikiye Luki” hull was laid down in March 2015.
General Dynamics press release Electric Boat is the prime contractor on the Columbia program, which will replace the aging Ohio class ballistic missile submarines. The
On December 22, 2022, the Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri delivered the third Al Zubarah-class corvette, the Al Khor, to the Qatar Ministry of Defence at La Spezia.