
India’s Naval LCA Prototype Completes Launch and Recovery in a Single Sortie
On 29 September, 2019, LCA Naval Prototype-2 launched off the ski jump at 1621 hours and then subsequently “trapped” at 1631 hrs on the arresting gear site

On 29 September, 2019, LCA Naval Prototype-2 launched off the ski jump at 1621 hours and then subsequently “trapped” at 1631 hrs on the arresting gear site

Here is NavalNews.com’s eighth monthly report (September 2019). Naval News Monthly Reports are video round ups of the most read naval defense news articles we published in the past month.

Pakistan Navy Chief OF Staff Admiral Zafar Mahmood Abbasi and the President of the Turkish Republic, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan jointly cut the first steel of the first Milgem class warship for Pakistan. The ceremony was held on 29th September 2019 in Istanbul Naval Shipyard.

The Turkish Navy yesterday commissioned its 4th and last Ada-class corvette (MILGEM Project), TCG Kinaliada (F-514), at the Istanbul Shipyard facilities in Tuzla.

INS Nilgiri, the first of seven P17A-class frigates being built for the Indian Navy, was launched at the Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Ltd. (MDL) dockyard in Mumbai on September 28.

Combined teams of DGA, the French Navy (Marine Nationale), Thales and Naval Group started putting the new SEA FIRE radar through its pace at the Shore Integration Facility (SIF) located in Southern France, near Toulon.

Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) is the first U.S. Navy vessel to fully integrate the Naval Strike Missile next generation anti-ship and land attack cruise missile.

Kongsberg Gruppen ASA (KONGSBERG) in a ceremony in Oslo on September 26 unveiled a new naval ship design called Vanguard.

In a first, the French Navy (Marine Nationale) demonstrated a cooperative engagement between two of its surface vessels.

According to pictures released by local medias, the Brazilian Navy first Scorpène-class attack submarine Riachuelo (S40) is now starting sea trials.