Israel-based DSIT Solutions has announced that it has won a contract worth $3.2 million from the navy for a number of Underwater Security systems, for immediate production and delivery
DCNS is now the majority shareholder in the Irish start-up OpenHydro, specialised in marine turbines, with a 59.7% holding
Amid growing territorial disputes with neighbors, China today commissioned its ‘next-gen stealth frigate. The country's first "type 056" stealth frigate, formerly known simply as ship 582, was renamed Bengbu at a commission ceremony held in a naval port in Zhoushan, a coastal city in east China's Zhejiang Province, state-run Xinhua news...
Atlas Elektronik and Thales Deutschland have jointly been commissioned to modernize the combat system of the German Class F124 frigates. With completion scheduled for 2017, the “HW Regeneration CDS F124” consortium formed by the two companies will refurbish the hardware of the Combat Direction System (CDS) and also adapt and...
The Chinese Navy on Tuesday reportedly inducted a new type of stealth frigate identified as a “Type 056 stealth frigate,” according to the official Xinhua news agency. The new frigate is expected to bolster the countrys maritime defenses amid territorial disputes, state media reported Tuesday
The Kingdom of Saudi Arabia is considering procuring German patrol boats worth $2 billion, according to reports. Although the potential sale has drawn criticism in Germany, the federal Security Council, which includes Chancellor Angela Merkel, has issued a positive response to a preliminary request for the sale by the Bremen-based Luerssen shipyard
Science Applications International Corporation or SAIC was awarded a $667 million contract by the U.S
The Pakistani Navy will receive the P3C Orion surveillance aircraft from U.S
The British Ministry of Defense Friday announced that it will increasingly collaborate with Australia on defense issues including cyber security and equipment programs such as the BAE Systems-built Type 26 frigate. Philip Hammond, British Defense Secretary and his Australian counterpart Stephen Smith were expected to sign a defense treaty to explore Type 26 collaborations the same day
Russian President Vladimir Putin has announced that the Russian Navy will receive $130 billion to complete modernization before 2020.Putin said that "modernization of the Navy is a major priority" and added that "the state armament program for the period until 2020 assigns more than 4 trillion rubles for the formation of balanced groups of warships and submarines”