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Taiwan Deploys Navy, Air Force as response to Chinese Drills
China announced that it had launched military drills code-named “Joint Sword 2024B” around Taiwan early in the morning on October 14, 2024.
14 October 2024
China announced that it had launched military drills code-named “Joint Sword 2024B” around Taiwan early in the morning on October 14, 2024.
On October 10, 2024, Turkiye’s primary missile manufacturer Roketsan conducted the first live test-firing of the “LEVENT” point defence missile system.
Taiwan defense ministry revealed its FY 2025 budget proposal to the public on September 10. Here is an overview of the naval systems programs.
The ongoing Russia-Ukraine war and the significant results achieved by the Houthis in the Red Sea using Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs) have increasingly brought the effectiveness of USVs in naval warfare to the forefront.
The first FDI built by Naval Group for the French Navy, Amiral Ronarc’h (D660), set sail yesterday to begin her maiden sea trials.
Damen Shipyards Group held a joint steel cutting and keel laying ceremony at Damen Shipyards Galati in Romania. The event simultaneously marked two significant milestones in the construction of an innovative Multi-Purpose Ship for the Portuguese Navy.
The Portuguese Navy has tested a concept for an uncrewed, fully autonomous, self-sustaining sea-base. Referred to as an ‘island’, the floating facility can be used to support maritime uncrewed system operations, conduct test and evaluation of uncrewed systems capability and connectivity, and demonstrate concepts for offshore data processing and remote environmental assessment.
On September 19th, 2024, the launching ceremony of the second FDI frigate Hellenic Ship (HS) Nearchos took place in the Naval Group shipyard in Lorient.
Pacific Dragon 2024 ballistic missile defense exercise featured, for the first time, a surface vessel that fired a SM-3 Block IA anti-ballistic missile from the U.S. Navy Mark 70 Mod 1 Payload Delivery System.
During the MSPO fair in Poland, PGZ-MIECZNIK revealed the latest information on the Miecznik-class frigate program for the Polish Navy.
