Naval Technology

The US Navy and the US Marine Corps (USMC) have concluded the Ship-to-Shore Maneuver Exploration and Experimentation Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (S2ME2 ANTX) 2017 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.

Navantia has signed a cooperation contract with AYESAS for the Turkish LHD Integrated Platform Management System.

General Dynamics Electric Boat has selected BWXT Nuclear Operations Group Inc for work on the Columbia-class nuclear submarines.

Elbit Systems has been contracted by the Brazilian Marine Corps (BMC) for the provision of advanced command, control, communications, computers, intelligence surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR), electronic warfare (EW), radio and communication sy…

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has delivered the new Type U212A Todaro-class submarine Romeo Romei to the Italian Navy's NAVARM naval armament unit at the company's shipyard in Muggiano, La Spezia, Italy.

The US Navy is set to christen its latest expeditionary fast transport (EPF), the future USNS City of Bismarck (T-EPF 9), at the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Alabama.

Project 18280-class is a fleet of two intelligence-gathering vessels built to meet specific mission needs of the Russian Navy.

The US Navy has awarded a new cost-plus, fixed-fee maintenance services contract to global infrastructure firm AECOM, which has been valued at roughly $177.5m.

The Canadian standing senate defence committee has released a new report recommending that the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) should purchase 12 new submarines equipped with air-independent propulsion (AIP).

Northrop Grumman has delivered the first low-rate initial production (LRIP) AN / TPS-80 ground / air task-oriented radar (G / ATOR) system to the US Marine Corps (USMC).

In this issue: The race for satellite servicing robots in the US, Finland’s defence upgrades, replacing the Royal Navy’s Harpoon missiles, why NATO must adapt to survive, and more.

SAES, the only Spanish company that supplies anti-submarine-warfare systems (ASW), has been involved in meetings with important companies of the aerospace sector.

The US Navy's USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Nimitz-class aircraft carrier has completed its four-year long refuelling and complex overhaul (RCOH) at Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII) Newport News Shipbuilding facility in Newport News, Virginia.

Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri has laid keel for the Italian Navy's first multipurpose offshore patrol ship (PPA) at its shipyard in Muggiano, La Spezia, Italy.

UK-based Kongsberg Maritime camera systems group has supplied a new large network Internet Protocol (IP) closed-circuit television (CCTV) system to be deployed aboard the Royal Canadian Navy's (RCN) new auxiliary naval replenishment ship.

Personnel from the Australian Defence Force (ADF) have joined the US and the Philippines forces to participate in the 33rd iteration of Exercise Balikatan 2017.

Rolls-Royce has entered an agreement with Indian shipyard Garden Reach Shipbuilders & Engineers (GRSE) to assemble MTU Series 4000 engines for naval vessels in India.

Lockheed Martin has rolled out the first short take-off / vertical landing version of the F-35B Lightning II joint strike fighter from its Final Assembly and Check Out (FACO) facility at Cameri Air Base in northern Italy.

Testing for the US Marine Corps’ Amphibious Combat Vehicle increment 1.1 programme is now underway, with contenders lining up to replace the force’s battle-weary Assault Amphibious Vehicle fleet. Two teams have been awarded EMD contracts for the comp…

The US Navy has launched its future America-class amphibious assault ship USS Tripoli (LHA 7) after completing the transition from land to the dry dock at Huntington Ingalls Industries' (HII) shipyard.