Italy’s Secretive Submarine Deal With Qatar: New Intelligence
The world of Italian midget submarine construction is famously secretive. Deals are not talked about ...
21 May 2021
The world of Italian midget submarine construction is famously secretive. Deals are not talked about ...
06 Apr 2021
The first ship-in-class "Musherib" (Q 61) offshore patrol vessel (OPV) started sea trials off Fincantieri’s Muggiano shipyard...
14 Feb 2021
Italian shipbuilder Fincantier launched the corvette “Damsah” at the Muggiano (La Spezia) shipyard.
28 Dec 2020
Turkey's Anadolu (ADIK) Shipyard on 24 December 2020 launched "Al Shamal" (QTS 92), the second cadet training ship for the Qatari Emiri Naval Forces (Qatari Navy).
20 Nov 2020
Qatar Emiri Naval Forces (QENF) first-of-class Al Zubarah air defense corvette started sea trials in Italy...
19 Oct 2020
After the technical launches respectively last February of the Al Zubarah (F 101) corvette and last September of the Musherib OPV (Q 61) for the Qatar Emiri Naval Forces...
08 Oct 2020
Turkey's Anadolu (ADIK) Shipyard launched today "Al Doha" (QTS 91), the first of two cadet training ships for the Qatari Emiri Naval Forces (Qatari Navy). Turkish and Qatari defense ministers both attended the event.
18 Sep 2020
The technical launch of the first-in-class patrol vessel (OPV - Offshore Patrol Vessel) “Musherib”, ordered to Fincantieri by the Qatari Ministry of Defence within the national naval acquisition program, took place today at the Muggiano (La Spezia) yard.
27 Feb 2020
The first Doha-class air defense corvette ordered by the Qatari Ministry of Defence within the national naval acquisition program, took place today at Fincantieri’s shipyard in Muggiano (La Spezia).
24 Jan 2020
Fincantieri, one of the world’s top shipbuilding groups, and the Ministry of Defence of Qatar through Barzan Holding, a company wholly owned by the Qatari Ministry of Defense and responsible for empowering the military capabilities of the national armed force in the state, signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) in Doha, aimed at strengthening their strategic partnership through the evaluation and studies of new technologies and capabilities, possibly leading to a future acquisition of new vessels already in 2020.