Defence`s Feeds

French engineering group CNIM has upgraded the shore-to-shore variant of its L-CAT fast amphibious landing catamaran to provide increased speed performance for amphibious operations. A low-speed version was first launched in 2016 with a maximum speed in light ship conditions of 22 kt. The upgraded

The Royal Swedish Navy (RSwN) Type A19 submarine HSwMS Gotland has begun sea trials after completing an extensive mid-life upgrade (MLU) at Saab Kockums’ Karlskrona shipyard. Gotland is the first of two RSwN Type A19 Gotland-class submarines receiving the MLU embodiment, which is designed to

Lockheed Martin is examining a different propulsion system layout for its US Navy (USN) guided-missile frigate (FFG(X)) offering, which is based on the company’s Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), the contractor said on 23 October during a media briefing at Euronaval in Paris. The

Lockheed Martin will deliver the ninth and final MH-60R Seahawk multirole maritime helicopter to Denmark in December. Denmark ordered nine MH-60Rs for USD686 million under a US Foreign Military Sales (FMS) agreement in 2012 as replacements for the Royal Danish Air Force’s (RDAF’s) eight

The Indian Navy (IN) began sea trials of INS Vikramaditya (ex- Admiral Gorshkov ), its sole 44,750 tonne refurbished Kiev-class carrier on 23 October, following completion of its second refit after joining service in 2014. The INR7.05 billion (USD96 billion) five-month long retrofit executed by

The Netherlands’ Defence Material Organisation (DMO) has contracted Thales for the supply of new Mode 5/S identification friend-or-foe (IFF) systems for retrofit to the six M-class frigates serving in the navies of Belgium, the Netherlands, and Portugal. As well as the supply of the IFF

Northrop Grumman is pursuing the development of a surface-launched stand-off derivative of the AGM-88E Block 1 Advanced Anti-Radiation Guided Missile (AARGM) to address, in the first instance, US Army long-range precision fire requirements. Designed to engage traditional and advanced land and