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Indian Navy’s Second P15B Destroyer Starts Sea Trials
India’s second P15B destroyer (Visakhapatnam-class), the future INS Mormugao started sea trials on 19 December 2021.
20 December 2021
India’s second P15B destroyer (Visakhapatnam-class), the future INS Mormugao started sea trials on 19 December 2021.
The U.S. Navy and the French Navy (Marine Nationale) inked a Strategic Interoperability Framework (SIF) on 17 December 2021. The agreement paves the way for increased cooperation between the two navies for the next twenty years, especially their ability to “plug and fight” side by side.
The fourth and final Littoral Mission Ship (LMS) was named “Rencong” and handed over to the Royal Malaysian Navy (TLDM or RMN). The naming and delivery ceremony took place today at the Wuchang Shipbuilding Industrial Group, in Wuhan, China.
The Danish Ministry of Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organisation (DALO) recently signed a framework agreement for the acquisition of six Light Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (LAUV) from the Portuguese company OCEANSCAN.
Naval Group today laid the keel of the first FDI (defence and intervention frigate) ordered by the French defence procurement agency (DGA) and destined to the French Navy (Marine Nationale).
According to the Iranian news outlet IRIB News, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy received 110 indigenously made combat speedboats on December 11 during a ceremony in Bandar Abbas.
The Project 23900 versatile amphibious assault ships (LHD) Ivan Rogov and Mitrofan Moskalenko currently being built by the Zaliv Shipyard in Kerch in Crimea will be adapted to carry strike and reconnaissance drones (unmanned aerial vehicles or UAVs), a source in Russia’s shipbuilding industry told TASS.
The Defence Committee of the House of Commons (the UK parliament) published its latest report on the Royal Navy. The name of the report, “We’re going to need a bigger Navy”, is self explanatory.
iXblue has been selected by the Finnish Navy to provide Phins Series Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) and Netans Data Distribution Units (DDU) as part of the Finnish Navy’s SQUADRON 2020 Project.
The U.S. Navy commissioned its newest guided-missile destroyer, USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118), Dec. 8, 2021 in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.
