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South Korea’s CVX Aircraft Carrier Project Faces New Budget Cuts
South Korea’s defense budget for the CVX light aircraft carrier project has been significantly decreased again.
16 November 2021
South Korea’s defense budget for the CVX light aircraft carrier project has been significantly decreased again.
Austal USA christened Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF-13) USNS Apalachicola yesterday. Austal has delivered twelve EPFs since December 2012. USNS Apalachicola is slated for delivery this summer.
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) yesterday christened the 23rd Virginia-class submarine, New Jersey (SSN 796), at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division.
The French Navy announced that a sailboat collided with aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle this morning. No injuries were reported, damages are limited to the sailboat which dismasted.
South Korean shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) won the construction contract for the second next-generation Aegis destroyer (also known as KDX III batch II).
The Project 11435 heavy aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov (NATO reporting name: Kuznetsov) is planned to go to an upgraded dry dock of the 35th Shipyard (an affiliate of the Zvyozdochka Shipyard) in June 2022.
A German frigate named Bayern, the third ship of the Brandenburg-class frigate, docked in Tokyo on November 5, 2021. It is the first time in 20 years that a German warship has docked in a Japanese port.
The forward section of the Jacques Chevallier, the first of four Logistic Support Ships (LSS) ordered by Chantiers de l’Atlantique to Fincantieri under the French Navy FLOTLOG program (“Flotte logistique”), was delivered on November 6 at the Castellammare di Stabia (Naples) shipyard.
General Dynamics NASSCO christened and launched the future USNS Harvey Milk (T-AO 206) on 6 November 2021. It is the second ship for the U.S. Navy’s John Lewis-class fleet oiler program.
35 surface ships and 5000 personnel from 10 countries (U.S., Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Qatar, South Africa, Ukraine), as well as NATO Standing
