Dutch Defense Minister Henk Kamp today confirmed at the House of Representatives that some of the in-service FRISC RHIBs will be replaced by new FFIs “Future Fast Interceptors”.
The Defence Materiel Organisation (Defensie Materieel Organisatie – DMO) of the Netherlands Ministry of Defence issued a request for information (RFI) on August 18, 2021 about a sonar for the future frigates of the Royal Netherlands Navy.
The Royal Netherlands Navy is conducting operational tests and evaluations of its future unmanned mine warfare systems, as part of the Belgian-Dutch rMCM program.
F-35 stealth jets and warships of the UK’s Carrier Strike Group unleashed their firepower during high-octane live firing exercises with US allies as the Indo-Pacific leg of their global deployment ramps up another notch.
A steel cutting ceremony for the Belgian Navy and Royal Netherlands Navy mine countermeasure vessel (MCM) program was held at Crist Shipyard in Gdynia (Poland), on July 19. The first steel sheet was cut for the Belgian Navy’s first-in-class MCM vessel.
July 14th – The hydrographic survey ship HNLSM Snellius was returned to the Royal Netherland Navy after its modernisation by Damen.
French Navy and Royal Netherland Navy successfully conducted a joint sea trial on Naval Cooperative Watch – Veille de Coopération Navale (VCN) in May 2021.
On the 2nd of June Damen Shipyards Galati has performed the keel-laying ceremony on the Combat Support Ship (CSS) Den Helder.
The Dutch Ministry of Defense on May 28 informed the House of Representatives about the progress of Walrus-class submarines replacement program. It was followed by the first official communication on the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN) future submarine program since December 2019 and the release of the “B-Letter”.
The Royal Netherlands Navy announced that the new SMART-L Multi Mission/Naval radar aboard HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën was used to eliminate a ballistic missile…
