KONGSBERG will deliver up to 150 MCTs in a phased program as part of this contract. Test article delivery will commence early 2021 followed by production phases.
China’s second amphibious assault ship, a Landing Helicopter Dock (LHD) known as Type 075, was launched in Shanghai today by Hudong Zhonghua shipyard. The vessel is intended for the People’s Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy).
Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII)’s Ingalls Shipbuilding division received a $1.5 billion contract award on 3 April to design and build LPD 31. This will be the 15th in the San Antonio-class ship and the second of the “LPD 17 Flight II”. The contract award was moved up some weeks to provide funds to suppliers.
The future USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28) was successfully launched at the Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) Ingalls Division shipyard in Pascagoula, Miss. on March 28.
BAE Systems has received a $113.5 million contract from the U.S. Marine Corps for an additional 26 Amphibious Combat Vehicles (ACV) under the Low-Rate Initial Production (LRIP) phase of the program.
Russia’s Defense Ministry is planning to sign a contract for the construction of the first two all-purpose amphibious assault ships by late April, a source in the Russian defense industry told TASS.
On December 20, 2019, the Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD) released its FY2020 Defense Budget. In this document, the MoD has unveiled a new Japan Ground Self Defense Force (JGSDF) deployment and training concept called the “Continuous Projection Exercises Concept” or CPEC.
French equipment manufacturer CNIM is right on track and on time to deliver a new generation of landing craft to the French Navy (Marine Nationale), having cut steel of the first EDA-S in October this year.
The Petr Morgunov amphibious assault ship of project 11711 built by Yantar Shipyard began factory running trials, the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) said.
Damen Shipyards Group held a keel laying ceremony for a LST 100 amphibious vessel for the navy of Nigeria on December 9, 2019. The event took place at the Damen Shipyard Sharjah facility located in the United Arab Emirates.
