Mine laying, a low cost but very effective capability is making a comeback among navies worldwide. Danish company SH Defence offers a new solution: A dedicated mine laying module.
The Italian Navy (Marina Militare), which is the lead partner of the European Patrol Corvette (EPC) hosted the meeting in which the navies of the four participating countries participated. The EPC is the most important PESCO project for the maritime domain.
MQ-9B SeaGuardian maritime tests flights concluded off the coast of California on September 11th. They can probably be seen as the next step toward a worldwide export success. Indeed, if the first variant of the MQ-9 Predator-B mainly served as an ISR platform for above ground missions, the new MQ-9B SkyGuardian/SeaGuardian is likely to find much more customers in its maritime variant.
South Korea might have been the country, after China, with the most reported cases of Coronavirus earlier this month, the two shipbuilding giants HHI and DSME appear to be unaffected.