Announcing SNA 2020 – Surface Navy Association 32nd National Annual Symposium
Join experts and decision makers in the military, industry, and congress for the Surface Navy Association Annual Symposium January 14-16 2020 in Crystal City, Virginia.
20 Dec 2019
Join experts and decision makers in the military, industry, and congress for the Surface Navy Association Annual Symposium January 14-16 2020 in Crystal City, Virginia.
20 Dec 2019
The construction of the new Combat Support Ship (CSS) Zr. Ms Den Helder should start soon. An agreement has been reached between the Dutch MoD and Damen Schelde Naval Shipbuilding on the construction and delivery of a CSS. State Secretary Barbara Visser sent the last required document (D letter) to the Lower House on December 19.
20 Dec 2019
Naval Group and Airspeed, a specialist of composites manufacturing based in South Australia, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to respond to the design competition launched by Lockheed Martin Australia for the masts of the Attack-class submarines.
19 Dec 2019
French equipment manufacturer CNIM is right on track and on time to deliver a new generation of landing craft to the French Navy (Marine Nationale), having cut steel of the first EDA-S in October this year.
19 Dec 2019
The next generation Long-Range Anti-Ship Missiles (LRASM) achieved early operational capability (EOC) with the F/A-18E/F in November, Naval News learned from NAVAIR, bringing new capabilities to U.S. Naval Air Forces.
19 Dec 2019
Navantia has finalized on December 18, in the Cartagena facilities, the closure of the resistant hull of the S-81 ‘Isaac Peral’ submarine for the Spanish Navy, after the union of the last section of the ship.
19 Dec 2019
TechnicAtome and Naval Group teams fired up the nuclear boiler of the first-of-class nuclear powered attack submarine (SSN) "Suffren" for the first time, an event known as "divergence". With this new milestone completed, the submarine is on track to start initial sea trials.
19 Dec 2019
Kership has selected iXblue navigation solutions to equip the three new offshore patrol vessels (OPV 90 type) being built for the Argentine Navy. The Marins inertial navigation systems and Netans data distribution units (DDU) will provide the navigation for these three future ships.
18 Dec 2019
Following a U.S. Department of Defense announcement in September 2019, BAE Systems announced that the U.S. Navy has signed a $2.68 billion indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity contract for the purchase of thousands of additional APKWS Laser-Guided Rockets
18 Dec 2019
The Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) signed a contract agreement with Saab Dynamics for the development of a new "self-propelled sea mine" prototype.