Royal IHC and Naval Group signed their agreement to become core partners in the bid for the Netherlands submarine replacement project. Together they form a robust core team in which both partners bring in their complementary experience and expertise in designing and manufacturing complex maritime and defence systems.
Canada’s only Naval Support Ship departed for a year-long deployment which will see Federal Fleet Services’ Asterix take part in a series of international exercises and security operations throughout the Pacific Ocean, Asia, Middle East and East Africa.
Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine (FMM) delivered another Littoral Combat Ship, the future USS Billings (LCS 15) to the U.S. Navy.
Seaspan’s Vancouver Shipyards Co. Ltd., prime contractor for Canada’s Joint Support Ships (JSS) has selected Lockheed Martin Canada’s modern CMS 330 as the Command Management System for the future Protecteur-Class.
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) announced that aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle and its strike group set sails on February 3rd to participate in a large-scale combined exercise dubbed FANAL19. The goal of FANAL19 is to achieve a high level of operational readiness and interoperability within an allied naval force.
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.
The U.S. Navy has awarded a contract for the construction of CVN 80 and CVN 81 to Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding.
Eastern Shipbuilding Group reports that steel cutting for the first offshore patrol cutter (OPC), Coast Guard Cutter ARGUS (WMSM-915), commenced on January 7, 2019 at Eastern’s facilities. ESG successfully achieved this milestone even with sustaining damage and work interruption due to Hurricane Michael.
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.
‘Rhône’ has recently returned from its first long-term deployment. The vessel sailed 19,000 nautical miles, through the Northeast Passage, from the Norwegian Sea to the Bering Strait, through the Barents, Kara, Laptevn Siberia and Tukukche Seas. It went back to its homeport (Brest naval base in Britanny) after passing through the Panama Canal.
