The UK has announced that its casualty receiving and auxiliary ship RFA Argus will operate as an interim littoral strike platform to support the UK’s Littoral Response Group (LRG) requirement.
Polish company Remontowa Shipbuilding delivered the second Kormoran-II class minehunter, ORP Albatros (602), to the Polish Navy on 12 August 2022.
The Danish Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced on 18 August a plan to invest up to 40 billion DKK ($5.5 billion USD) to strengthen the Royal Danish Navy (Søværnet).
Q & A with Captain Brad Busch, U.S. Navy, Deputy Director, Expeditionary Warfare (N95) at the Surface Navy Association’s 2022 (SNA 2022) Waterfront Conference during his “Future of the [U.S. Navy’s] Amphibious Fleet” session.
Indonesian state-owned shipbuilder PT PAL launched a new hospital ship for the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) on 15 August 2022. The “Dr. Radjiman Wedyodiningrat” (pennant number: 992)) is based on the existing Makassar-class of Landing Platform Dock (LPD).
A U.S. Navy team led by NUWC Division Newport staff demonstrated an end-to-end intelligence preparation of the operational environment (IPOE) mission with the Snakehead large displacement unmanned undersea vehicle (LDUUV) prototype at the Narragansett Bay Test Facility on July 21.
Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) commissioned the ninth and final indigenously built Bintuni-Class LST, KRI Teluk Calang (524), on August 08, 2022, in Jakarta International Container Terminal (JICT).
The U.S. Navy’s first AN/ALQ-249 Next Generation Jammer Mid-Band (NGJ-MB) production representative pods arrived at…
General Dynamics NASSCO, a subsidiary of General Dynamics, announced on 05 August 2022 that it’s been awarded USD 1.4 billion in contract modifications from the US Navy to build a sixth expeditionary seagoing vessel (ESB 8) and two additional John Lewis-class fleet oilers (T- AO 211 and 212).
On Aug. 3, the U.S. Navy recovered the F/A-18E Super Hornet aircraft assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW 1), embarked aboard USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) that blew overboard due to unexpected heavy weather in the Mediterranean Sea July 8, 2022.
