Technology/Modernization

By Mahmoud Gamal On the sidelines of the second edition of Egypt International Defense Exhibition EDEX-2021, the Egyptian military-owned Alexandria shipyard announced that the construction process of the fourth and last Egyptian Navy MEKO A200 frigates has started at the company’s...

General Dynamics Mission Systems announced today that it was awarded a contract by the U.S. Navy for support of their Overlord Unmanned Surface Vessel (OUSV) Combat System Ship Integration and Test program. This contract includes options that, if exercised,...

INS Visakhapatnam was commissioned into the Indian Navy in the presence of the Indian Ministry of Defence Raksha Mantri Shri Rajnath Singh at Naval Dockyard, Mumbai on Nov.21, 2021. INS Visakhapatnam, a P15B stealth guided-missile destroyer, was commissioned into the...

Taiwan Navy held a "keel laying" ceremony on Nov. 16, for an indigenously developed submarine prototype, marking the end of the vessel's initial construction phase a year after work began. The ceremony on Tuesday took place in Kaohsiung, where...

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) unveiled the Scorpius family of Electronic Warfare (EW) systems. Scorpius is the first electronic warfare (EW) system in the world capable of simultaneously targeting multiple threats, across frequencies and in different directions. Scorpius is based on...

Babcock International Group (Babcock) has been awarded a c.£100m, 13-year contract by the UK’s Defence Equipment and Support (DE&S)  for the design, manufacture, delivery/commissioning, and in-service support to the Maritime Electronic Warfare Systems Integrated Capability (MEWSIC) Increment 1. Babcock...

Pakistan Navy commissioned the first Chinese-built Type 054A Guided Missile Frigate PNS Tughril on 8 November. Moin ul Haque, Pakistan's ambassador to China, was the primary guest at the ceremony in Shanghai. The PNS Tughril is the first of four...

On October 5, the Norwegian defense company Kongsberg announced a meeting with the Croatian KONGSBERG subsidiary NAVIS, Salt Ship Design AS, and Croatian Kongsberg Maritime personnel. The attendees discussed and planned how their multi-purpose navy vessel, the VANGUARD platform,...

Sonardyne and Wavefront's underwater obstacle avoidance technology was successfully demonstrated onboard an extra-large, uncrewed underwater vehicle (XLUUV) constructed and operated by Plymouth-based MSubs Ltd. The Vigilant forward-looking sonar demonstration was part of the first phase of the UK's Defence and...

Turkish Dearsan Shipyard will build 2 units of 76 m OPV (76 meter Offshore Patrol Vessel) within the scope of the contract signed with the Nigerian Navy today (Nov.3). The OPV's, which have been configured in line with the Nigerian...