INS Visakhapatnam, a P15B stealth guided missile destroyer, was commissioned into the Indian Navy in the presence of Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh at the Naval Dockyard, Mumbai on November 21, 2021.
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) just released additional details, including the lengthy ship list, for POLARIS 21, the unprecedented high intensity combat exercise which kicked off yesterday.
The European Defence Agency (EDA) yesterday launched a new Medium Unmanned Surface Vehicle (MUSV) project with Estonia, France, Latvia.
A German frigate named Bayern, the third ship of the Brandenburg-class frigate, docked in Tokyo on November 5, 2021. It is the first time in 20 years that a German warship has docked in a Japanese port.
On March 26 2010, the ROKS Cheonan was sunk by a North Korean submarine. Today, more than 11 years later, the Daegu-Class or FFX Batch II frigate which bears its name has been launched by Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI).
35 surface ships and 5000 personnel from 10 countries (U.S., Pakistan, Azerbaijan, Bahrain, Jordan, Libya, Morocco, Qatar, South Africa, Ukraine), as well as NATO Standing
The United States Department of Defense (DoD) released its annual report on military and security developments involving China, commonly referred to as the China Military Power Report. The report says the Chinese Navy is now the largest in the world with 355 ships.
Spain’s SAES & France’s Thales have agreed to integrate the new Thales SonoFlash sonobuoy on SAES’ acoustic sonobuoy processor. The agreement was announced during the Feindef 2021 defense exhibition currently held in Madrid, Spain.
Two years ago, the Finnish Defense Ministry selected Rauma Marine Constructions (RMC) and Saab for the building of four new Pohjanmaa-class corvettes within the Squadron 2020 program. It appears now that the program is facing a new, 6 to 12 months, delay because of extra design work.
The Hellenic defense procurement agency (GDDIA) and the Dutch Defense Materiel Organization (DMO) signed on 27 October 2021 a letter of intent (LOI) for the transfer of two Karel Doorman-class (M-class) frigates and 6 Alkmaar-class (Tripartite-class) mine countermeasures (MCM) vessels
