US, French Navy Chiefs Discuss Interoperability and Partnership
U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday met with his counterpart Chief of the French Navy Adm. Pierre Vandier at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, Jan. 31.
U.S. Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Gilday met with his counterpart Chief of the French Navy Adm. Pierre Vandier at the Pentagon in Arlington, Virginia, Jan. 31.
ATLAS ELEKTRONIK UK (AEUK) has been contracted by the DE&S Mine Hunting Capability (MHC) Team to deliver a further ARCIMS uncrewed minehunting system for the UK Royal Navy (RN).

Huntington Ingalls industries laid the keel for the 14th San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ship, the future USS Harrisburg (LPD 30) with a ceremony held on January 28.
On January 27, 35 service members on board the ROKS Choe Yeong, which relieved the ROKS Chungmugong Yi Sun-sin as the flagship of the unit in November, tested positive for COVID-19.
According to an OCCAR press statement issued on January 15, OCCAR managed to replace FS Forbin’s PAAMS radar radome damaged by a lightning strike in December 2021.
The Italian Navy and Air Force assets participate in the NATO-led Neptune Strike 2022 from 24 Jan to 7 Feb 2022 in the central Mediterranean.
Damen commissions Rolls-Royce business unit Power Systems to supply mtu NautIQ Master Integrated Platform Management System for German Navy’s F126 Frigates

The new NH90 Multi-Role Frigate Helicopter (MRFH) for the German Navy will be flying with Rohde & Schwarz software defined airborne radios.
An F-35C Lightning II, assigned to Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 2, had a landing mishap on deck while USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) was conducting routine flight operations in the South China Sea, Jan. 24.
Northrop Grumman Corporation’s MQ-8C Fire Scout, the U.S. Navy’s next generation ship-based autonomous helicopter system deployed operationally Dec. 14, 2021.