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HHI Launched the ‘Jose Rizal’ Frigate for the Philippines Navy
The first of two frigates built for the Philippines Navy was launched by
Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea.
24 May 2019
The first of two frigates built for the Philippines Navy was launched by
Hyundai Heavy Industries in South Korea.
Kongsberg is actively pitching its helicopter-launched variant of the Naval Strike Missile, officially dubbed NSM-HL. According to Kongsberg, the NSM-HL missile is designed « to fill the role as a long-range, anti-ship missile for helicopter launch, thus increasing the parent ship’s potential ASuW capabilities when launching forward firing, deliberate attacks ».
The Bulgarian Ministry of Defence informed that three companies decided to make a bid in the ongoing tender for new modular patrol vessels. The preferred bidder should be announced this summer.
Admiral Sunil Lanba, Chief of the Naval Staff, launched the third ship of Project 15B, Guided Missile Destroyer “Imphal”, today (20 April 2019) at Mazagon Dock Shipbuilders Limited in Mumbai.
The Royal Netherlands Navy HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën Frigate has received her SMART-L Multi Mission radar upgrade, providing enhanced Air and Missile Defense capability.
At the SNA 2019 symposium held in mid-January, Lockheed Martin unveiled a scale model dubbed “LCS with Lethality and Survivability Upgrades”
Finnish Minister of Defence Jussi Niinistö authorised, on 21 February 2019, the country’s Defence Forces Logistics Command to procure Raytheon’s Evolved SeaSparrow Missiles (ESSM) as part of the surface-to-air missile system (ITO20) for the Pohjanmaa-class corvettes of the Squadron 2020 project.
Italian defense company Leonardo is on board of the “Multi-Mission European Frigate” (FREMM) ITS Carlo Margottini currently moored at Abu Dhabi port on the occasion of IDEX 2019. The state of the art vessel departed from La Spezia in Italy on 17th January 2019.
Boeing was awarded $15,9 million for modification P00001 to delivery order previously placed against basic ordering agreement N00019-16-G-0001. This modification exercises an option for the procurement of 79 Harpoon Block II Plus Tactical Missile upgrade kits for the U.S. Navy.
