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Video: Turkish AESA Radar ÇAFRAD Completes First Live Fire Test
Turkish defense electronic company ASELSAN unveiled a video show the first live fire test of its next generation AESA radar called ÇAFRAD.
11 February 2019
Turkish defense electronic company ASELSAN unveiled a video show the first live fire test of its next generation AESA radar called ÇAFRAD.
The Australian government signed the Attack-class submarine Strategic Partnering Agreement with France’s Naval Group, a project worth over 31 billion Euros ($35 billion USD) and tying the two parties for the next 50 years.
The Turkish Navy (Türk Deniz Kuvvetleri) Preveze-class submarine Mid-Life Upgrade (MLU) contract was signed between Turkey’s Defence Industry Directorate (SSB) and a joint venture formed by STM-ASELSAN-HAVELSAN-ASFAT on 8 Ferbuary 2019.
UK’s Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S) Underwater Electronic Warfare (UEW) Delivery Team (DT) is considering a “full technical refresh and modernisation” of the Magazine Torpedo Launch System (MTLS) Control System aboard eight Type 23 frigates in the Royal Navy fleet.
Canada’s Combat Ship Team has been awarded the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) design contract by Irving Shipbuilding. Irving Shipbuilding is the Canadian Surface Combatant prime contractor and will build all 15 ships at Halifax Shipyard.
The German defense procurement agency (Bundesamt für Ausrüstung, Informationstechnik und Nutzung der Bundeswehr; BAAINBw) selected two sensor systems for the future K130 Batch 2 Corvettes
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) announced that aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its strike group set sails on February 3rd to participate in a large-scale combined exercise dubbed FANAL19. The goal of FANAL19 is to achieve a high level of operational readiness and interoperability within an allied naval force.
The Royal Norwegian Navy’s future logistics support vessel HNoMS Maud departed DSME shipyard in South Korea. The vessel will be fully operational by 2020.
The first of three Estonian Navy (Eesti Merevägi) mine countermeasure (MCM) vessels has just recieved a capability upgrade at Babcock’s Rosyth facilities in Fife.
USS South Dakota (SSN 790) became the newest and 17th Virginia-class fast-attack submarine in the U.S. Navy during her commissioning ceremony at Naval Submarine Base New London, February 2, 2019.
