The Italian Navy’s Cavour aircraft carrier left the Arsenale Militare Marittimo (Maritime Military Arsenal) of Taranto after completing a 16 months refit and upgrade period to operate F-35B Joint Strike Fighters.
The Knyaz Vladimir Borei A-class nuclear submarine of project 955A began underwater trials in the White Sea before the handover to the Northern fleet, the Defense Ministry said.
Hervé Guillou, President of GICAN (the French Marine Industry Group) was auditioned on May 14. by the French Senate Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defense and Armed Forces to debate on the role the naval industry could play in the French economic upturn.
The Russian Navy’s Baltic fleet will receive a series of six Karakurt-class corvettes of project 22800. Four of them will be armed with Pantsir-M air defense launchers, Russian Navy Commander-in-Chief Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov said.
In a ceremony chaired by the Chief of Staff of the Navy, the Submarine Rescue Vessel (SRV) “Guillobel” (NSS “Guillobel”) was commissioned into the Brazilian Navy (Marinha do Brasil) on May 12. 2020.
The Black Sea fleet will be the first to obtain the Vice Admiral Paromov first tanker of project 03182.
General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems (GA-EMS) announced on May 18. 2020 that it has been awarded a contract for ongoing engineering and logistics sustainment of Gerald R. Ford-class Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch Systems (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) systems by the Naval Air Systems Command, Patuxent, MD.
The Royal Australian Navy has welcomed its final Hobart-class Air Warfare Destroyer, HMAS Sydney, in its fleet. The commissioning ceremony was conducted at sea, off the coast of New South Wales on Monday, on 18 May 2020.
The French defense procurement agency (DGA) awarded Zodiac Milpro International a procurement contract for 11 RHIBs. Known as “EDO”, these new Zodiac Hurricane ZH-638 IO will be deployed aboard surface vessels of the French Navy (Marine Nationale).
The Philippine Navy’s first-ever guided-missile frigate, BRP Jose Rizal (FF-150), set sails from the Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) shipyard in South Korea today, to join her homeland for the first time.
