Naval Technology

Australia selects DCNS for $39bn submarine development contract, North Korea tests hydrogen bomb, while UK Parliament votes in favour of £40bn Trident renewal programme. Naval-technology.com wraps up the key headlines from 2016.

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Ballistic computers have been conceived in order to reduce the workload of military personnel involved in operations by automatically providing the required fire data, once the targets have been identified.

Raytheon Company has received a contract from the US Navy to produce National Security Agency (NSA) certified next-generation encryption devices to help protect tactical data transmissions.

Orbit International’s Electronics Group has secured a contract to provide MK 119 gun computer system cabinet (GCSC) for the US Navy.

The US Navy's USS Independence (LCS 2) has successfully completed the first selected restricted availability works at Southwest Regional Maintenance Centre (SWRMC) in San Diego, California.

The Ivar Huitfeldt Class frigates were built by Odense Steel Shipyard for the Royal Danish Navy. Three frigates entered into service between 2012 and 2013.

HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding has secured a $1.46bn, fixed-price-incentive contract to provide detailed design and development of an amphibious transport dock for USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28).

Umkhonto surface-to-air missiles (SAM) have been made operational by the navies of South Africa and Finland.

The governments of Australia and France have signed an agreement to establish the framework required to build the Royal Australian Navy’s (RAN) new fleet of submarines.

The Finnish Defence Forces' Logistics Command is seeking proposals for delivery of a battle system for the navy's future Squadron 2020 vessels.

Indian shipbuilder Garden Reach Shipbuilders and Engineers (GRSE) has launched the last landing craft utility (LCU) ship for the Indian Navy.

The UK Royal Navy’s fourth Astute-class nuclear-powered submarine has been formally christened as Audacious, during a ceremony held at BAE Systems’ shipyard in Barrow-in-Furness, UK.

The US Navy’s E-2D Advanced Hawkeye with aerial refuelling (AR) capabilities has successfully completed its first flight.

Wärtsilä ELAC Nautik GmbH is a company at Kiel, with more than 80 years of experience in development and production of hydroacoustic systems.

Cobham Sliprings is at the forefront of electrical slipring (slipring assortment or SRA) development and production, enabling electrical bonding (electrical slipring) across rotating and stationary components in the naval industry.

Aster specialises in the provision of consultancy, systems engineering, design and supervision services. The company provides innovative technologies to governments, public authorities and industrial...

Pompe Garbarino, an Italian company founded in 1932, is a leading manufacturer of centrifugal and positive displacement navy pumps, and pumps for the shipbuilding industry.

Navantia represents advancement, naval activity and modernity, but also inherits more than 250 years' experience in the design, construction, maintenance and conversion of the Spanish Navy's ships.Na...

Raytheon Company has received a contract to perform repair work on ten weapon replaceable assemblies for the AN/ALR-67(V)3 radar warning receiver for the US Navy’s F/A-18 A/B/C/D/E/F aircraft.