Naval Technology

BAE Systems has developed a new analytical tool, which monitors the UK Royal Navy ships and highlights any potential faults in real-time.

Lockheed Martin has successfully carried out a controlled flight test of the US Navy’s long-range anti-ship missile (LRASM) surface-launch variant.

The BAP Carrasco (BOP-171) is an oceanographic and polar research vessel built by Spanish shipbuilding company Construcciones Navales P Freire, for the Peruvian Navy. The vessel was launched in Vigo, Galicia, Spain, in May 2016.

The UK Parliament has voted in favour of the Trident renewal programme, which is estimated to cost £40bn, to replace four Vanguard-class submarines that carry nuclear warheads.

General Dynamics' (GD) subsidiary Electric Boat has received an $18.9m contract modification from the US Navy to continue developing the Virginia Payload Module (VPM).

The US Navy Marine Corps (USMC), and the Republic of Singapore Armed Forces have commenced the 22nd annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise.

Navantia expands its international presence with the opening of a new commercial delegation in Bergen, Norway, that will be operative from today (20 July).

The US Defense Security Cooperation Agency has notified Congress of the potential $821m foreign military sale (FMS) of Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Block IIIB, equipment and support to Japan.

Naval forces from the US, Iraq and Kuwait will conduct their first trilateral exercise, in a bid to jointly address threats that exist in the Arabian Gulf.

The Turkish Navy’s newest Milgem Ada-class multi-purpose corvette TCG Burgazada (F-513) was successfully launched at the Istanbul Naval Shipyard Command.

The Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) Canberra-class landing helicopter dock ship HMAS Canberra (L02) has successfully taken aboard a US Marine Corps’ (USMC) MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft for the first time.

The New Zealand Defence Force (NZDF) Government has granted approval for the purchase of a new naval tanker for $493m, Defence Minister Gerry Brownlee has revealed.

CACI International has been selected to continue its support for the modernisation of the US Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Atlantic's naval tactical command support system (NTCSS), for a period of three years.

The US Seventh Fleet has deployed two P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft to Singapore on a rotational basis to support shared maritime security initiatives.

Raytheon and Norway-based Kongsberg Defence Systems are planning to manufacture, assemble, integrate and test naval strike missiles (NSM) and launchers in the US.

The 11th multilateral, humanitarian and disaster response exercise, Pacific Partnership 2016 (PP16), has started in Da Nang City, Vietnam.

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Rheinmetall and General Dynamics (GD) Ordnance and Tactical Systems (GD-OTS) have reached an agreement with the Canadian Government to produce Omnitrap decoy ammunition to Canadian Navy for 30 years.

The deckhouse of the US Navy’s America-class large-deck amphibious assault ship, USS Tripoli (LHA 7), has been successfully installed by Huntington Ingalls Industries’ (HII) Ingalls Shipbuilding division.

The US Navy has awarded a contract-worth $3.96bn to iGov to provide engineering services and financial management for its 22 functional areas.