General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) concluded a series of flight demonstrations using its MQ-9 Guardian Remotely Piloted Aircraft System (RPAS) on December 19, 2019.

Northrop Grumman's AQS-24 mine hunting sonar recently completed initial in-water testing of a next-generation Deploy and Retrieval (D&R) payload, the US company announced on January 6, 2020.

BAE Systems has received a $175 million contract from the U.S. Navy to modernize the guided-missile cruiser USS Vicksburg (CG 69).

The US Fleet Forces Command last month issued a notice asking the service’s surface force to develop a concept of operations (CONOPS) for the large and medium unmanned surface vessels currently in development.

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced that High Cycle Testing of its Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) system for Ford-class aircraft carriers was successfully completed over a two-day period in October 2019 at the Runway Arrested Landing Site (RALS) in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

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