China Launches Improved Type 054AG Frigate, More Hulls Coming
China’s Huangpu Shipyard has launched the first improved Type 054AG frigate for the Chinese Navy. Type features larger flightdeck and new main gun.
China’s Huangpu Shipyard has launched the first improved Type 054AG frigate for the Chinese Navy. Type features larger flightdeck and new main gun.
On August 9, 2024 the Brazilian Navy held the launching ceremony for the frigate ‘Tamandaré’ (F200), the first of four planned vessels in the ‘Tamandaré’ Class Frigate Program.

The Italian Carrier Strike Group, consisting of the aircraft carrier Cavour and the frigate Alpino, will make a visit to US Navy’s Naval Base in Guam,  the southernmost small island of the Marianne’s archipelago, in the Pacific Ocean.
Australia is pouring money into extra-large autonomous underwater vehicles (XL-AUV) Ghost Shark, that will help take up the underwater slack.
HD Hyundai Heavy Industries is to conduct detailed design and construction of ADD’s new large test vessel (experimental ship).
General Atomics has unveiled a concept for a carrier-capable variant of its Gambit autonomous collaborative platform (ACP).
Hanwha Ocean selected as preferred bidder for the construction of second vessel of Soyang-class fast combat support ship (AOE-II).
Making its Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) debut, the USS Carl Vinson’s CVW-2 Advanced Air Wing is bringing unmatched capabilities to the front lines of U.S. Naval Aviation in a way not seen since the Cold War.

On August 01, 2024, the Turkish Istanbul Shipyard launched the second MILGEM corvette, the Hetman Ivan Vygovsky, for the Ukrainian Navy.
On Saturday, July 27, General Dynamics Bath Iron Works christened the U.S. Navy’s newest guided missile destroyer, the future USS Patrick Gallagher (DDG 127).