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Chinese Shipyard Launches Two Type 054 Frigates and One Type 071E LPD
China’s Hudong Zhonghua shipyard located near Shanghai today launched two frigates and a landing platform dock (LPD)…
23 December 2021
China’s Hudong Zhonghua shipyard located near Shanghai today launched two frigates and a landing platform dock (LPD)…
Northrop Grumman won a $354 million U.S. Navy contract to start production on three E-2D Advanced Hawkeye airborne early warning and control (AEW&C) aircraft for the French Navy (Marine Nationale).
Austal USA was awarded a contract to perform design studies for the U.S. Navy’s Next Generation Logistics Ship (NGLS) program on December 20, 2021.
The United States’ State Department approved a possible Foreign Military Sale (FMS) to France of Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS), Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG), and related equipment for an estimated cost of $1.321 billion.
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) FREMM Frigates FS Provence and FS Languedoc won the U.S. Navy’s “Hook’em” award. This is the third time (and the second year in a row) that the U.S. 6th Fleet awards the price to French units for their ability to find and track submarines.
STADT NAVAL has been invited and approved as a partner in the European Naval Industry Consortium led by Fincantieri, Naval Group and Navantia (coordinated by NAVIRIS) for the MMPC / EPC.
India’s second P15B destroyer (Visakhapatnam-class), the future INS Mormugao started sea trials on 19 December 2021.
Naval Group laid the keel of the first FDI frigate (frégate de défense et d’intervention) for the French Navy (Marine Nationale). Naval News was on-site at the shipyard in Lorient to cover this important event.
The Danish ministry of defense (Forsvarsministeriet) announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Ukrainian Ministry of Infrastructure (Міністерство інфраструктури України) for the delivery of Danish ship design and technology to Ukraine.
The U.S. Navy and the French Navy (Marine Nationale) inked a Strategic Interoperability Framework (SIF) on 17 December 2021. The agreement paves the way for increased cooperation between the two navies for the next twenty years, especially their ability to “plug and fight” side by side.
