INS Tabar Completes Maritime Partnership Exercise with French Navy
July 19th – The Indian Navy announced the completion of exercises with the French Navy’s FREMM Aquitaine and the INS Tabar frigate.
July 19th – The Indian Navy announced the completion of exercises with the French Navy’s FREMM Aquitaine and the INS Tabar frigate.
The Indian Navy accepted the first two of its MH-60R Maritime Helicopters from the U.S. Navy in a ceremony held at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego on 16 Jul 2021.
At DEFEA 2021, the International Defense Exhibition which opened its doors today in Athens, Greece, Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri confirmed that it is proposing the Italian FREMM frigate design to the Hellenic Navy.
Babcock International, is forging a game-changing approach to global shipbuilding to offer warship design, build and in-service support options to international navies through its Arrowhead 140 general purpose frigate.
The Queen Elizabeth (UK) and Ronald Reagan carrier strike groups (CSG), alongside the Iwo Jima amphibious ready group (ARG), conducted a large scale joint interoperability exercise in the Gulf of Aden, July 12.
Turkish defense companies Aselsan and Sefine Shipyard unveiled two unmanned surface vessel (USV) projects on July 8: A USV for ASW missions named “NB57” and another USV for ASuW missions named “RD09”…
A shortlist was recently leaked for the future frigate of the Hellenic Navy. Naval News reviews in detail the three frigates at the top of this list.
The Virginia-class submarine USS New Mexico (SSN 779) concluded interoperability training with embarked Navy SEALs in the Mediterranean Sea, June 30, 2021.
On June 23, 2021, the German Parliament – Bundestag – approved a defense budget of approximately €50.3 billion for 2022, described as historic by Defense Minister Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer. This approval has made it possible to proceed with numerous naval programs.

The German parliament (Bundestag) has formally approved, June 23, the procurement of five P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircrafts (MPA) from Boeing for the German Navy (Deutsche Marine).