Naval Technology

BAE Systems has been awarded a $245m contract by the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) to provide a new gun system, maritime indirect fires system (MIFS), for the UK Royal Navy’s next-generation Type 26 Global Combat Ship.

Sikorksy Aircraft, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, has completed the critical design review (CDR) of the VH-92A Presidential Helicopter Replacement Programme.

Leidos has completed the initial performance trials of the US Navy’s first unmanned surface vehicle Sea Hunter, built as part of the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) anti-submarine warfare continuous unmanned vessel (ACTUV) program…

A series of four Project 21180 multi-purpose vessels are being built by JSC Admiralty Shipyards, a company headquartered in St. Petersburg, Russia, for the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy.

The Indian Ministry of Defence (MoD) has reportedly awarded a $1bn contract to Boeing to deliver four additional P-8I maritime surveillance aircraft for the Indian Navy.

SAGE Automation and Navantia Australia have executed a joint venture (JV) agreement to create the Navantia SAGE Automation Group (NSAG), creating local capability in naval automation and monitoring.

The Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) Canberra-class landing helicopter dock ship HMAS Canberra (L02) has successfully received the US Navy’s landing craft, air cushion (LCAC) within its internal well dock for the first time.

Cubic Global Defense has been contracted by the US Naval Air Warfare Centre to support aviation training for the US Marine Corps (USMC).

Lockheed Martin and Hellenic Aerospace Industry (HAI) have officially launched the Hellenic Navy’s P-3B Orion maritime patrol aircraft modernisation and upgrade programme.

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North Korea is reportedly building two new covered docks (pens) that could be used to protect ballistic missile submarines (SSBs).

Sea mines may seem an archaic hangover from a largely forgotten era of naval warfare, but they remain just as real and present a danger for sailors today as they did in earlier times. The deployment of mines has dropped dramatically since the two Wor…

The Canadian Government has launched an open competition for the in-service support contract for the Royal Canadian Navy’s (RCN) Arctic offshore patrol ships (AOPS) and joint support ships (JSS).

The US Navy's second Independence-class littoral combat ship USS Coronado (LCS 4) has successfully performed the first live-fire over-the-horizon missile test using a Harpoon Block IC missile.

US-based technical services company VSE has received a cost-plus award fee delivery order, valued at up to $74m, to support the reactivation of ex-USS Taylor (FFG 50) and ex-USS Gary (FFG 51) for Taiwan Navy.

The US Navy and Spanish Navy has conducted the first interoperability test of the latest Aegis Weapon System baseline with a foreign ship.

The US Navy's Freedon-class variant USS Detroit littoral combat ship (LCS 7) has successfully completed acceptance trial, prior to future deployment.

The US Government has approved the sale of 246 SM-2 Block IIIB missiles to the Japan Ministry of Defense.

The US Navy’s SPAWAR Systems Center Atlantic (SSC Atlantic) has contracted Serco to provide command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) installation services on-board the Nimitz-class aircraft ca…