The French Navy’s first-in-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) “Suffren” successfully completed its static dive test on April 28. The important milestone marked the start of sea trials for the Barracuda program.
Fincantieri’s Marinette Marine Corporation was awarded a $795 mil US Navy contract for detail design & construction of the first ship at its Marinette shipyard in Wisconsin. Options for up to 10 ships could make the contract worth up to $5.6 billion. Fincantieri was competing with a frigate design based on the Italian Navy’s FREMM frigate.
South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) launched ROKS Donghae (FFG-822), the fourth Daegu-class FFX Batch II frigate for the Republic of Korea Navy (ROK Navy). The event took place on April 29 at the HHI shipyard in Ulsan.
The French Navy (Marine Nationale)’s first-in-class nuclear-powered attack submarine (SSN) “Suffren” successfully completed its static dive test on April 28. The important procedure marks the start of sea trials for the Barracuda program.
Israel Shipyards started sea trials of the third SHALDAG MK II Fast Patrol Craft (FPC) on order for the navy of Senegal.
The missile division of the Russian Northern Fleet equipped with K-300P Bastion (NATO reporting name SS-C-5 Stooge) mobile coastal defence missile system passed their winter training course in the Arctic, the Northern Fleet said on April 24, 2020.
The third Atlantique 2 (ATL2) maritime patrol aircraft (MPA) upgraded by Dassault Aviation, Thales and Naval Group was delivered by DGA to the French Navy (Marine Nationale) at the Lann-Bihoué naval air base.
The Slava-class missile cruiser ‘Moskva’ (project 1164) is returning to the Russian Black Sea fleet. It has powerful anti-aircraft and missile weapons and is dangerous for any adversary group of warships.
During the past few weeks, the German Navy (Deutsche Marine)’s F125 class Frigate “Baden-Württemberg” conducted sub-systems tests under extreme conditions and in realistic combat situations. She left for Brazil on February 7 to evaluate on-board systems in hot weather near the Equator. The first-of-class vessel returned on April 16.
Kongsberg Maritime AS, Sensor & Robotics is celebrating the signing of a contract with Saab that will see KONGSBERG delivering its market-leading Anti-Submarine Warfare (ASW) and diver detection sonars for the Pohjanmaa-class corvettes currently being developed by the Finnish Navy under its Squadron 2020 project.
