The U.S. Navy issued its Request for Information (RFI) document for the future Large Surface Combatant (LSC). The LSC is set to replace the ageing Ticonderoga-class of guided missile cruisers.

As the Belgian-Dutch MCM tender is heating up, the Sea Naval Solutions (SNS) consortium (Thales-Engine Deck Repair-Chantier de l’Atlantique-Socarenam) invited Naval News in Antwerp to detail its proposal and to outline the capabilities of EDR shipyard.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has successfully completed the development of the AQS-24C and delivered the first two systems to the U.S. Navy. The AQS-24C upgrade adds an in-stride volume search capability to the AQS-24B.

ATLAS is defining the standard in naval mine countermeasure systems for decades and is the only overall MCM system supplier providing the complete sensor to effector capability, ATLAS ELEKTRONIK Group said on January 31, 2019.

Our colleagues from Dutch naval defense media marineschepen.nl had the scoop on the mine countermeasure (MCM) vessel design submitted by Damen for the Belgian-Dutch competition. Damen is a Dutch defence, shipbuilding, and engineering conglomerate company based in Gorinchem, Netherlands.

Naval News spent two days with Belgium Naval & Robotics, a consortium formed by Naval Group and ECA Group to answer the Dutch and Belgian Navies’ joint Mine Countermeasures program (MCM). From stem to stern, let’s discover how this joint venture (called a « combination » by the Belgian military) has built an innovative and strategic offer covering all Belgian requests, and more…

AAI Corp., a subsidiary of Textron Systems, has been awarder a US$10 million contract to exercise options for engineering and technical services for the US Navy’s Unmanned Influence Sweep System (UISS) unmanned surface vehicle platform, the US Department of Defense said on January 10, 2019.