Naval Technology

The UK Royal Navy's Daring-class Type 45 destroyer HMS Dragon was floated out in Portsmouth Naval Base for the first time in seven months.

The 750t aft island section of the UK Royal Navy's Queen Elizabeth-class aircraft carrier, HMS Prince of Wales, has been installed in place on the flight deck of the vessel.

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Saab Defense and Security USA has introduced its new solid-state naval radar system, the Sea Giraffe 4A, at the Surface Navy Association's 2016 National Symposium.

The last of the US Navy's S-3B Viking series made its final flight at Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, after being in service for more than 40 years.

Raytheon has successfully completed a captive flight test of a seeker designed for the Tomahawk Block IV cruise missile.

General Dynamics (GD) Mission Systems has received a production contract from the US Navy for its Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) Block 1B3.

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DRS Technologies has delivered the first hybrid electric drive (HED) system, developed for the Republic of Korea Navy's (ROK) new Incheon-class FFX Batch II programme.

Huntington Ingalls Industries has announced completion of installation of more than 14 million feet of electrical and fibre-optic cable on the US Navy's first Ford-class aircraft carrier, Gerald R Ford (CVN 78).

The US Navy and Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has certified the new Aegis Combat System Baseline 9.C1 to be incorporated in the US destroyer fleet.

General Dynamics (GD) Electric Boat has been awarded an $89.8m modification contract by the US Navy to continue to support the common missile compartment programme.

The US Navy is set to conduct Exercise Solid Curtain-Citadel Shield 2016 (SC/CS16) on navy installations located in continental US.

Duke Energy has signed a real estate out grant with the US Department of Navy (DON) to construct a 24MW direct current (DC) (17MW alternating current) solar facility at Naval Support Activity (NSA) Crane, Indiana.

Reliance Defense has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Indian state government of Andhra Pradesh, to establish a naval facility in Visakhapatnam.

The US Navy has successfully fired a rolling airframe missile (RAM) Block 2 from Raytheon's SeaRAM anti-ship missile defence system, during a live-fire exercise at China Lake in California.

The Bangladesh Navy has introduced two new frigates, BNS Shadhinota and BNS Prottoy, into its fleet as part of efforts to boost its naval capabilities.

BMT Designers & Planners, a subsidiary of the global international maritime design, engineering and risk management consultancy, BMT Group, has been awarded an environmental quality programmes support contract by the US Navy.

The US Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) has awarded a contract to Rockwell Collins to assist the government in building the required navigation performance-area navigation (RNP-RNAV) flight management system, based on the Future Airborne Capability…