
PACIFIC 2019: LACROIX is ready for Australianization
French pyrotechnics specialist Lacroix plans to set up operations to support Australian Industry Capability with its tailor-made naval solutions for RAN programs.

French pyrotechnics specialist Lacroix plans to set up operations to support Australian Industry Capability with its tailor-made naval solutions for RAN programs.

The biennial PACIFIC 2019 International Maritime Exposition will ride a record-breaking wave of industry support in to Sydney’s Darling Harbour next week, with unprecedented levels of participation from exhibitor organisations, official delegations and conference organisers that will make the 2019 event the largest in PACIFIC’s 20-year history.

On September 28, INS Khanderi was commissioned by the Indian Navy in Mumbai, where the submarine is based.

SAMI Navantia Naval Industries (SAMINavantia), a joint venture between Saudi Arabian Military Industries (SAMI) and Navantia S.A., marked the launch of construction for the first of five Avante 2200 corvettes with an official keel-laying ceremony in Cadiz, Spain.

The French Navy recently launched a tender calling for construction work at the Lanvéoc-Poulmic naval air base (BAN) prior to delivery of an interim fleet of Airbus Helicopter H160-type light multirole helicopters.

The subcontract for the second piece of major equipment for the Royal Australian Navy Future Submarine Program has been signed between Naval Group and Schneider Electric France for the procurement of the Main Direct Current (DC) Switchboards.

On 29 September, 2019, LCA Naval Prototype-2 launched off the ski jump at 1621 hours and then subsequently “trapped” at 1631 hrs on the arresting gear site

Here is NavalNews.com’s eighth monthly report (September 2019). Naval News Monthly Reports are video round ups of the most read naval defense news articles we published in the past month.

Combined teams of DGA, the French Navy (Marine Nationale), Thales and Naval Group started putting the new SEA FIRE radar through its pace at the Shore Integration Facility (SIF) located in Southern France, near Toulon.

Independence-class Littoral Combat Ship USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) is the first U.S. Navy vessel to fully integrate the Naval Strike Missile next generation anti-ship and land attack cruise missile.