News Highlights of May: Indonesia’s Tank Boat goes to sea, a major amphibious exercise in Japan, exercise Formidable Shield, HMS Queen Elizabeth starts her maiden deployment and Turkey’s ULAQ USV fires its missiles…
As part of the ongoing At-Sea-Demo/Formidable Shield 2021 exercise, the U.S. Navy Arleigh-Burke class guided-missile destroyer USS Paul Ignatius (DDG 117) fired two Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) interceptors to engage ballistic missile targets launched from the Hebrides Range, May 26 and May 30, 2021.
The Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman team successfully conducted a significant live fire hypersonic strike system test in support of the U.S. Navy’s Conventional Prompt Strike (CPS) and U.S. Army’s Long Range Hypersonic Weapon (LRHW) programs.
Naval Group submitted as part of the French Team with MBDA and Thales a new offer for the modernisation of the surface fleet of the Hellenic Navy.
Navantia, a leading Spanish shipbuilder, presented its multi-billion euro bid for the frigate needs of the Hellenic Navy last Friday 21st of May.
The Project 03182 small seagoing tanker Vice Admiral Paromov has entered service with the Black Sea Fleet at the fleet’s main base in Sevastopol in the Crimea, the Defense Ministry’s press office said.
The Dutch Ministry of Defense on May 28 informed the House of Representatives about the progress of Walrus-class submarines replacement program. It was followed by the first official communication on the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) future submarine program since December 2019 and the release of the “B-Letter”.
The Knyaz Oleg Borey-A-class SSBN of project 955A began its first test sortie on May 30, a defense industry source told TASS.
The Royal Netherlands Navy announced that the new SMART-L Multi Mission/Naval radar aboard HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën was used to eliminate a ballistic missile…
The Royal Navy is using artificial intelligence for the first time at sea in a bid to defeat missile attacks.
