Austal USA Delivers First ‘Autonomous Capable’ EPF Ship to US Navy
Austal USA delivered Expeditionary Fast Transport USNS Apalachicola (EPF 13) to the U.S. Navy, today.
Austal USA delivered Expeditionary Fast Transport USNS Apalachicola (EPF 13) to the U.S. Navy, today.
Australia is set to accelerate the procurement of sea mines as part of Project SEA 2000, a move foreshadowed in the 2020 Defence Strategic Update, according to the Australian Department of Defence.
On February 14, 2023, Turkish media outlets claimed that a drifting sea mine exploded near Agva on the Black Sea coast.
The U.S. Navy plans to perform a hypersonic missile test shot off guided-missile destroyer USS Zumwalt (DDG-1000) in December 2025, a service official said February 1, 2023.

Taiwan’s first “Indigenous Defense Submarine” is set to be launched in September this year.
The Enterprise Air Surveillance Radar (EASR) antenna was fitted on the future USS Richard M. McCool Jr. (LPD 29) on Jan.16, 2023.
According to the Commander of Ukraine’s Armed Forces, two Russian Kalibr cruise missiles flew over Romanian airspace and into Ukraine.

Steel has been cut for the third Dreadnought-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), the future HMS Warspite.
Uncrewed underwater vehicles (UUVs) are getting bigger. The latest designs, being introduced in the United States, Britain, China and elsewhere, are several times bigger than
South Korea’s DAPA announced the start of mass production for the second batch of K-SAAM missiles and Tiger Shark heavyweight torpedoes (HWT).