Singapore’s Minister for Defence Dr Ng Eng Hen, Senior Minister of State for Defence Mr Heng Chee How and Senior Minister of State for Defence Dr Mohamad Maliki bin Osman outlined MINDEF’s focus areas for the coming year at MINDEF’s Committee of Supply (COS) debate in Parliament on Friday, 1 March 2019.
Nearly one month following the acceptance of its first advanced weapons elevator (AWE), the US Navy’s newest aircraft carrier, USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78), has accepted its second, the service said on March 6.
The US Navy announced on March 6 the establishment of Program Executive Office Columbia (PEO CLB) to focus entirely on the Navy’s number one acquisition priority.
The Australian Department of Defence has awarded Phoenix International Ltd a contract for a Submarine Rescue Service (SRS) to include the acquisition and support of the SEA1354 Ph 1 Submarine Escape, Rescue, and Abandonment System (SERAS), the Australian subsidiary of Phoenix International Holdings, Inc. said on March 6.
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) carrier strike group, with nulcear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle as its centerpiece, set sails from Toulon Naval Base on Tuesday, March 5 for a deployment of several months dubbed “Clemenceau”.
Rolls-Royce has secured a contract with Italian shipbuilder Cantiere Navale Vittoria for the supply of a marine propulsion package to a new Offshore Patrol Vessel under construction for the Armed Forces of Malta (AFM).
Here is NavalNews.com’s first monthly report (February 2019). Naval News Monthly Reports are video round ups of the most read naval defense news articles we published in the past month.
The US Coast Guard commissioned the 30th fast response cutter (FRC), Robert Ward, in San Francisco, California, March 2. The cutter is the second of four planned FRCs to be stationed in San Pedro, the service said on March 5.
The French Defense Procurement Agency (DGA) yesterday took delivery of another Metropolitan Offshore Support & Assistance Vessel (BSAM) Seine. Ordered in 2016 for the French Navy, the BSAM Seine is the third of four ships designed and built by the Kership shipyard.
The People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) recently deployed a new VTOL UAV from the Lanzhou Type 052C destroyer, Chinese media Global Times reported.
