Here is NavalNews.com’s eleventh monthly report (December 2019). Naval News Monthly Reports are video round ups of the most read naval defense news articles we published in the past month.
The PPA Programme achieved an important technical milestone in late December 2019: the integration of the first two X-Band fixed sensor arrays of the new Dual Band Radar (DBR) X/C at the test bed in Pratica di Mare airfield, near Rome.
Sevmash Shipyard held a ceremony to float the Novosibirsk K-573 first serial SSGN of Yasen-M-class project 885M on December 25, 2019.
As 2019 came to an end, here is an overview of the top ten naval defense articles we published this past year, based on the number of readers for each story.
The first Littoral Mission Ship (LMS) “Keris” was formally handed over to the Royal Malaysian Navy (TLDM or RMN) today during a ceremony held in Qidong, Shanghai, China
The Amur Shipyard laid the third Karakurt-class corvette of project 22800. The Navy commander-in-chief ruled to call it the Ussuriisk, the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) said.
The Chinese naval shipbuilding industry maintained its impressive production rate in 2019. In the past week alone, no less than 3 destroyers and a corvette were launched by various yards.
The U.S. Navy awarded a Lockheed Martin-led team, which includes Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM), a multi-billion dollar (USD) order for the construction of four Multi-Mission Surface Combatants ships, as part of the country’s Foreign Military Sales program. These ships will be for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
The Admiralty Shipyard of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) floated the Volkhov diesel-electric submarine of project 636.3, the USC said.
Raytheon Company was awarded a Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) Block IIA contract modification as announced by the U.S. Department of Defense on Dec. 20, 2019.
