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Imminent Roll-Out for China’s First Carrier-Based AWACS
China’s first carrier-based AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) should leave the assembly line and conduct its first flight soon.
21 April 2019
China’s first carrier-based AWACS (Airborne Warning and Control System) should leave the assembly line and conduct its first flight soon.
The Netherlands Coastguard (Nederlandse Kustwacht) is looking for new Maritime Surveillance Aircraft (MSA) according to a contract notice published on the European public procurement platform TED.
Naval Group will exhibit for the first time at FAMEX, the Aerospace Mexico Fair, held from April 24 to 27, 2019 at the main military air base of the country, located in Santa Lucia. Naval News took the opportunity to sit down with Naval Group’s Olivier Michel, Vice President Sales Latin America, and Nicolas Viala, Corporate Sales Director Latin America.
The French Minister of Armed Forces, Florence Parly, was visiting the Thales site of Limours this week, which specializes in military radars. The first SeaFire radar array for the future FDI frigates of the French Navy (Marine Nationale) was presented to her.
On Friday, April 12, HII’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division authenticated the keel of the San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD 29). Ship’s Co-sponsors Shana McCool and Kate Oja declared the keel to be “truly and fairly laid.”
On April 8, 2019, the Polish Ministry of National Defense signed an offset package worth 395.882751 million zlotys (about $ 104 million) with Italian company Leonardo. This agreement precedes a procurement contract for four Leonardo Helicopters AW101 Merlin for the Polish Navy.
Indonesia on Friday signed a US$1.02 billion contract for the procurement of three 1,400-ton submarines (DSME 1400 type) from South Korea’s Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME).
Indonesian state-owned shipbuilder PT PAL launched the first diesel-electric submarine built in Indonesia on April 11, 2019 in Surabaya. The Alugoro (405) is the third of the Nagapasa-class submarine (also known as the DSME 1400 design or Improved Chang Bogo-class) for the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL).
Earlier this year, Raytheon Company demonstrated a land-based expeditionary version of its Joint Precision Approach and Landing System for the first time to U.S. Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps officials at Marine Corps Air Station, Yuma, Ariz.
Marine Crest Technology, a strategic technology partner to Malaysia’s T7 Global (a group specialized in Oil & Gas), was showcasing for the first time the “Vibrant 01” Combat Management System (CMS) at LIMA 2019. LIMA 2019 was the Langkawi International Maritime and Aerospace exhibition held last month in Malaysia.
