Cyprus, Greece, France and Italy on Wednesday started combined and joint naval-air drills in the Eastern Mediterranean. The exercise, named Eunomia, contributes to the common security in the region and to defend the freedom of navigation, according to the French military.
Following the completion of internal procedures, the Defense Cooperation Agreement between the Republic of Cyprus and the French Republic, which was signed on 4 April 2017, came into force on 1 August 2020.
Here is NavalNews.com’s July Monthly Recap. This month we cover Turkey’s new anti-ship missile, a frigate commissioning in the Philippines, a corvette launch in Spain, a Fast Attack Craft commissioning in Greece and France’s new SSN, the Suffren.
The Russian Navy is reinforcing its naval group in the Mediterranean Sea. Two new submarines with Kalibr cruise missiles joined it. Other warships are to arrive. The Mediterranean group is reinforced on the background of the escalating civil war in Libya and the tanker war in the Gulf.
A spokesman of the Indian Ministry of Defence announced back in March that Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL, Visakhapatnam), India’s state-owned shipyard, had signed a contract with TAIS, a consortium of five Turkish shipyards, to design and build five large Fleet Support Vessel (FSV) with a displacement of 45,000 tonnes for the Indian Navy.
No, Russia’s Slava-class Cruiser Won’t be Getting Tsirkon hypersonic missile, Poseidon nuke torpedoes, Turkish Railgun or S-500 SAM… This obviously was an April’s Fool day joke.
In a recent announcement, the UK Ministry of Defence Torpedoes, Tomahawk and Harpoon (TTH) Project Team further detailed its requirement to implement an interim surface to surface guided weapon to replace the existing Harpoon missile.
Indonesian state-owned shipbuilder PT PAL launched the first diesel-electric submarine built in Indonesia on April 11, 2019 in Surabaya. The Alugoro (405) is the third of the Nagapasa-class submarine (also known as the DSME 1400 design or Improved Chang Bogo-class) for the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL).
The Malaysian shipyard Muhibbah Engineering introduced a multirole variant of its commercial Offshore Support Vessel design at the LIMA 2019 exhibition. As the name implies, the Multi-Purpose Mission Ship (MPMS) is designed to perform a wide range of tasks. Its utmost important role is to act as a mothership for smaller vessels and day/night operations.
TAIS unveiled its proposal for the Royal Malaysian Navy’s potential Multirole Support Ship (MRSS) request, Naval News spotted today at LIMA 2019 exhibition. The RMN « 15 to 5 » transformation program involves the acquisition of three MRSS ships, the two first of which being delivered between 2021-2025 and the third one by 2035 – Naval News.
