Indonesian National Armed Forces Joint Chief of Staff, Air Marshal Hadi Tjahjanto, declared this week that KRI Alugoro (405) will soon reinforce the Indonesian Navy (TNI AL) fleet.
The French Armament General Directorate (DGA) announced that France’s new generation nuclear-powered attack submarine ‘Suffren’ entered the water for the first time today, at the Naval Group shipyard in Cherbourg, Normandie.
Here is NavalNews.com’s sixth monthly report (July 2019). Naval News Monthly Reports are video round ups of the most read naval defense news articles we published in the past month.
Naval Group announced that they achieved a breakthrough with their proprietary FC2G AIP system for submarine: The company demonstrated an 18 days submerged patrol representative of operational conditions.
U.S. Navy cruise missile submarine USS Michigan (SSGN 727) docked on July 10 to begin a 17-month Extended Refit Period which will end in 2020.
USS Seawolf (SSN 21) project team, ship’s force and Trident Refit Facility-Bangor worked tirelessly together to complete a Total Ship Readiness Assessment on July 5.
BAE Systems press release BAE Systems has received a follow-on contract to produce 28 more payload tubes for the U.S. Navy’s Block V Virginia-class attack
North Korean state media KCNA released footage showing the communist leader inspecting a new submarine under construction at a shipyard. This new submarine appears to be based on the late 50ies Romeo-class, a Soviet design, and is likely able to deploy a limited number of submarine launched ballistic missiles (SLBM).
Exclusive interview with Stephan Meunier, Naval Group’s Operational Marketing Director and former Rubis-class SSN commander in the French Navy, on the Barracuda type SSN’s Combat Information Center (CIC).
After going missing in 1968, French Navy submarine Minerve has finally been located. The wreck lies in three pieces at a depth of 2,350 meters, 30 nautical miles off the coast and Toulon naval base.
