In an exclusive interview with GlobalData, MP and Chair of the Commons Defence Select Committee Tobias Ellwood said there was not nearly enough investment in the Royal Navy and that it should look to procure more modular equipment to better fill capabilities.
During an event at the French Embassy in Athens on February 13th, 2020, Naval Group unveiled its long-term cooperation plan developed to support the acquisition program of two FDI frigates (Belharra-class) for the Hellenic Navy.
French Navy (Marine Nationale)’s Rafale M in their latest variant, dubbed F3-R standard, began their operational service flying over Syria from the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle on January 29, 2020.
The Pakistan Navy has commissioned a 2300 Tonnes Corvette PNS YARMOOK (F-271) – a Damen OPV 1900 – in a ceremony held at Constanta Port, Romania on 13th February 2020.
Royal IHC and the trade unions FNV, CNV vakmensen.nl, RMU and De Unie have signed a covenant within the framework of the programme for the replacement of the Dutch Walrus class submarines.
MBDA’s Marte ER anti-ship missile has completed its second firing carried out at the PISQ (Poligono Interforze del Salto di Quirra) test range in Sardinia.
The Navy wants to truncate production of the legacy F/A-18E/F Super Hornet in favor of pumping money into accelerating the development of its long-gestating next-generation carrier-based fighter program, the service revealed in its Fiscal Year 2021 budget request.
Austal USA has delivered its 11th Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) to the U.S. Navy at the company’s shipyard in Mobile, Alabama.
The U.S. Navy conducted a scheduled, one-missile test flight of an unarmed life-extended Trident II (D5LE) missile from USS Maine (SSBN 741), an Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine, on the Western Test Range off the coast of San Diego, California, Feb. 12.
Naval Group Australia and the Australian Department of Defence have responded to criticism and have issued a joint statement on Australian industry involvement in the construction of 12 Attack-class submarines:
