The UK’s Carrier Strike Group (CSG) has achieved a major milestone ahead of its first operational deployment this year. The Ministry of Defence announced that CSG has reached Initial Operating Capability (IOC).
The Republic of Korea (ROK) Navy today commissioned its second Daegu-class FFX Batch II frigate. ROKS Gyeongnam was built by local shipbuilder Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) and launched on 21 June 2019.
On 30 December 2020, details for South Korea’s LPX-II light aircraft carrier were finalized and the necessary budget was officially allocated in the 2020~2024 Mid-Term Defense Plan (국방중기계획).
Here is NavalNews.com’s last Monthly Recap of 2020.
As 2020 came to an end, here is an overview of the ten most read naval defense news stories we published this past year, based on the number of readers.
Al Galala (FFG 1002), the first of two FREMM frigates delivered by Fincantieri to Egypt, arrived in Alexandria on 30 December 2020…
The Royal Australian Air Force maritime patrol capability will be boosted with Australia set to acquire two more P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft (MPA), bringing the total fleet size to 14.
On December 25, 2020, Japan’s Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced that it would include the procurement cost of the new “ASM-3A” supersonic anti-ship missile in its defense budget request for fiscal year 2021.
The first Project 20385 Corvette ‘Gremyashchy’ was commissioned with the Russian Navy 29 December 2020, in St. Petersburg, at the Severnaya Verf shipyard.
Successful trials of hypersonic Tsirkon missile shadowed the completion of acceptance tests of the antisubmarine Otvet missile complex.
