Damen Naval and German ship classification society DNV, signed a contract for the comprehensive classification and verification of the new F126 frigates that a Damen-led team is building for the German Navy. Following the signing of the contract on June 7 at the DNV Maritime headquarters at its German office, DNV will carry out extensive work and conduct in-depth ship verifications and surveys in Hamburg, Wolgast and Kiel throughout the duration of the project
Russias Malachite Design Bureau is developing a new mini nuclear submarine named Gorgon. "On an initiative basis, technical proposals have been developed and the appearance of the Gorgon nuclear multipurpose submarine of small displacement and the Serval small non-nuclear submarine with VNEU Serval has been determined," the company's 2020 annual report says
JFD, part of James Fisher and Sons plc, has demonstrated NATO Submarine Rescue System (NSRS) Intervention system during Silverlink Local In-Water Training (SL LIWT 21) exercise held in Glasgow, Scotland, in March. The simulated Intervention Remotely Operated Vehicle (IROV) dives, led by JFD, are part of a series of training deployments for the NSRS designed to ensure the system is in a permanent state of readiness, able to be utilised at a moments notice by the NATO partner nations of France, Norway and the UK, which jointly own the system
Russian ships, submarines and aircraft ‘destroyed an aircraft carrier group and military infrastructure of a mock enemy during exercises in the central Pacific Ocean northwest of Hawaii Islands. The exercise involving about 20 ships, submarines, support vessels, as well as 20 aircraft and helicopters took place at a distance of about 2,500 miles southeast of the Kuril Islands last week, the Russian Ministry of Defence (MoD) announced Sunday
Lockheed Martin won a contract valued $191.2 million to provide Trident missiles to the U
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) air force flew 28 warplanes on Tuesday to conduct an exercise surrounding Taiwan to which the renegade island state responded by issuing radio warnings and deploying missiles. Chinese state-controlled media,
T.Mariotti Shipyard said it has been selected to deliver Special Diving Operations - Submarine Rescue Ships (SDO-SuRS) to the Italian Navy
Iranian Navy today inducted locally-manufactured ‘Dena destroyer and ‘Shahin minesweeper at an event in the southern port city of Bandar Abbas. Dena is the fourth Jamaran-class destroyer manufactured by the Defense Ministrys naval industries
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Fire-damaged French Submarine ‘Perle is ready to float after its rear section was joined with the front portion of de-commissioned submarine ‘Saphir as the first major step in bringing the nuclear powered submarine back to life. Sylvain Tirand, Deputy Director of the Perle program, detailed the repair solution that consisted of joining the rear of the Perle with the fore section of the Saphir, an SSN (nuclear submarine) decommissioned in 2019