Technology/Modernization

Austal Australia has delivered the eleventh Guardian-class Patrol Boat (GCPB) to the Australian Department of Defence on June 18.The vessel, the RKS Teanoai II, was then gifted by the Australian Government to the Government of the Republic of Kiribati at...

Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) team laid the keel of the future USS Cleveland (LCS 31) in the Fincantieri Marine Group on 17 June, Lockheed Martin announced with a press release.A welder authenticates the keel of Littoral Combat Ship...

MBDA has been awarded a contract to equip the Brazilian Navy’s new Tamandaré-class frigates with the Sea Ceptor air defence missile system.Sea Ceptor is a smart weapon control system (WCS) that together with the fully-active Common Anti-air Modular Missile...

The steel cutting ceremony of the fourth MILGEM Class Corvettes for the Pakistan Navy was held at Karachi Shipyard & Engineering Works (KS&EW), Pakistan.Chief of the Naval Staff Admiral Muhammad Amjad Khan Niazi graced the occasion as Chief...

MKS 180, also known as the F126 frigate, is a new multi-purpose combat ship being developed for the German Navy to replace its Brandenburg class frigates, especially in their anti-submarine warfare role if fitted with a modular towed array...

Iranian Navy commissioned an indigenous destroyer named "Dena" and minehunter "Shahin" with a ceremony held in Bandar Abbas on 14 June.Iran's president Hassan Rouhani attended the ceremony online.“The defence ministry has achieved a major task today in supplying two...

Northrop Grumman Corporation has delivered the AN/SLQ-32(V)7 Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 3 Engineering and Development Model (EDM) to the U.S. Navy for land-based testing.The official transfer was marked at an event with company and Navy...

The US Navy accepted delivery of the next generation landing craft, Ship to Shore Connector (SSC), Landing Craft, Air Cushion (LCAC) 102, June 3.Delivery follows the successful completion of Acceptance Trials with the US Navy’s Board of Inspection and...

During MADEX (International Maritime Defense Industry Exhibition) 2021, one of the main naval exhibitions in the Asia Pacific area, Fincantieri has signed a contract with Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) to support the Conceptual Design of the new...

Kraken Robotics Inc., Canada’s Ocean Company, announced that it has signed a cooperation agreement with SH Defense (SHD) of Denmark covering the design and sale of containerized mine countermeasure and other subsea surveillance sensor and robotic solutions.SHD is an...