
Dutch LPD Karel Doorman to receive 76mm gun and RAM upgrade
The Royal Netherlands Navy’s joint support ship (LPD), HNLMS Karel Doorman (A-833), will be upgraded with a 76mm gun and a RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM)…

The Royal Netherlands Navy’s joint support ship (LPD), HNLMS Karel Doorman (A-833), will be upgraded with a 76mm gun and a RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM)…
Naval Group laid the keel of the first mine countermeasure mothership for the Royal Netherlands Navy on 14 June 2022.
Naval Group today laid the keel of the first mine countermeasure mothership for the Royal Netherlands Navy. HNLMS Vlissingenntended is the second of twelve mine countermeasure platforms of the Belgian-Dutch rMCM program.
Today, June 8th, the first Hull Vane for the Royal Netherlands Navy has been delivered in Den Helder. This Dutch invention consists of a submerged transom wing…
As part of their replacement Mine Counter Measures (rMCM) program, the Royal Netherlands Navy signed an additional contract with ECA Group…
The Dutch Ministry of Defence announced that the service life of the Walrus class submarines will be extended.

Already aboard a number of naval platforms worldwide, Leonardo’s LIONFISH® family of defense systems has now also been selected by the Royal Netherlands Navy.
A demonstration of the deployment and recovery operation of the fully remotely operated USV took place in the presence of the Belgian and Dutch navies as part of the rMCM program.
In a ceremony on January 7, Commodore Ad van de Sande of the Royal Netherlands Navy assumed command of the Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1) from Commodore Bradley Peats of the Royal Canadian Navy.
The Dutch “Walrus-class replacement program” will take more time than initially planned…