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Royal Navy Commissioned Second Batch 2 River-class OPV HMS Medway
HMS Medway was commissioned into the Royal Navy during a ceremony at Chatham Dockyard on September 19, 2019.
23 September 2019
HMS Medway was commissioned into the Royal Navy during a ceremony at Chatham Dockyard on September 19, 2019.
The latest Autonomous ARCIMS USVs to be ordered from ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK (AEUK) have completed Acceptance Testing and are ready for the ASW payload installation.
Britain’s newest aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, has sailed from Rosyth Dockyard for the first time on September, 19, 2019.
In accordance with Finland’s Ministry of Defence’s proposition, the Government of Finland has today selected Saab as the combat system provider and integrator for the Finnish Navy’s four new Pohjanmaa-class corvettes within the Squadron 2020 programme.
SAMI Navantia Naval Industries (SAMI-Navantia), a joint venture between Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) and Navantia S.A., last week signed a €900 million contract with the Spanish shipbuilder Navantia to collaborate on Combat System Integration (CSI) on the Avante 2200 corvettes for the Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF), the JV said at the DSEI 2019 exhibition in London.
A U.S. Navy E-2D Advanced Hawkeye able to be refueled in midair is now with VAW-120, the Carrier Airborne Early Warning community’s replacement training squadron. A prototype E-2D with the refueling probe flew first in December 2016. The new capability will bring a huge step forward in capability and endurance.
At DSEI 2019, MSI-Defence Systems (MSI-DS) launched the latest addition to its SEAHAWK family of gun systems dedicated to the naval field: The SEAHAWK LW30M.
At DSEI 2019, Thales is launching the Mine Intelligence Mapping system (Mi-Map), a new AI-assisted solution developed for mine warfare analysis. The Mi-Map console is designed to offer the customer the best solution in term of mine detection and classification, Thales said to Naval News.
BMT has unveiled its latest concept design, the ELLIDA™ multi-role support ship, at this year’s international defence trade show DSEI 2019. ELLIDA™ will be the third family of vessels designed by BMT for the auxiliary market and will complement the AEGIR and SALVAS families.
China’s 2nd aircraft carrier (the 1st one fully built locally) completed its 7th set of sea trials in August. It will highly likely be commissioned with the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese navy) by the end of the year.
