Nevskoe Design Bureau informed TASS about its new Varan aircraft-carrying ship. It is a unified platform to create several types of big surface warships: aircraft carrier, universal amphibious assault ship, hospital ship and Arctic supply vessel.
New commercial satellite imagery appears to show the first hull section of a new submarine in China. It could be either the first Type 095 / Type 09V Tang-class SSN or the first Type 096 / Type 09VI SSBN…
New intelligence suggests that Iran has a locally built warship which has not been publicly revealed. H I Sutton has the story.
Here is NavalNews.com’s last Monthly Recap of 2020.
As 2020 came to an end, here is an overview of the ten most read naval defense news stories we published this past year, based on the number of readers.
A few days ago the Chinese Navy, formally known as the PLAN (People’s Liberation army Navy), conducted a live fire exercise over the South China
The Project 20385 lead corvette “Gremyashchy” has sailed from Baltiysk to St. Petersburg after it completed its state trials. It is now being prepared for its commissioning, the Russian Defense Ministry said.
Russia’s latest warships are engaged in tests of a new hypersonic cruise missile. The tests are taking place in the icy waters of the Barents
Here is Naval News’ Monthly Recap video for October 2020.
The Vasily Bykov corvette of project 22160 has completed Arctic trials. It tested the arms and life support. It was believed that project 22160 warships are unfit for the Arctic, but the corvette coped with all missions…
