
South Korea’s Hanwha Group Officially Acquires DSME
Hanwha Group officially acquired Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) on December 16th in a deal worth 2 trillion Korean won (over $ 1.5 billion).

Hanwha Group officially acquired Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) on December 16th in a deal worth 2 trillion Korean won (over $ 1.5 billion).
Havelsan, a Turkish defence company manufacturing C2 solutions for the Turkish Navy, introduces its underwater C2 solution, SEDA.

Fincantieri together with ONEX Shipyards & Technologies Group signed an official agreement for the creation of a corvettes manufacturing line & their life-cycle support base, that will be located at Onex Naval and Maritime Elefsis Shipyards.
Babcock has welcomed home HMS Montrose, part of the Royal Navy’s Type 23 frigate fleet, to her Devonport base port following the ships 4-year deployment from the UK.
The French DGA took delivery of the tenth Atlantique 2 (ATL2) maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) upgraded to standard 6 on December 12, 2022.
OCCAR signed contribution agreement with EU Commission for two European Defence Funds projects, EPC and EU-HYDEF.
On December 15, 2022, the Japanese Maritime Self Defence Forces commissioned the third Mogami-class frigate, JS NOSHIRO, with a ceremony held at Nagasaki Shipyard of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) will lease a deep diving A18D Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV) from Exail to fulfill seabed warfare missions.
Agenor, the first Greek indigenously designed and built special operations craft (SOC) became the first Hellenic Navy vessel to receive a remote weapon station (RWS).
The U.S. Navy and Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) marked the start of fabrication for the future USS Sam Nunn (DDG 133) with a ceremony at HII’s shipyard on Dec 12.