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Kalashnikov delivers boats to Russian military
Jul 07, 2016 (UPI)
Kalashnikov has begun delivery of high-speed transport and amphibious assault boats to the Russian military, the company announced Wednesday. Boats being delive...
Austal reports $115 million in extra LCS costs
Jul 05, 2016 (UPI)
Austal has announced a $115 million downward adjustment to revenue and work in progress for Fiscal 2016 due to higher-than-expected U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Sh...
Electric Boat gets $116 million for Virginia-class sub work
Jul 05, 2016 (UPI)
General Dynamics Electric Boat has been awarded a not-to-exceed $116 million undefinitized U.S. Navy contract modification for work in support of Virginia-class...
MicroTech selected for Navy command-and-control systems and support
Jul 05, 2016 (UPI)
MicroTech has won a place on a five-year, $750 million U.S. Navy multiple award contract to provide command-and-control systems and related support services, th...
Lockheed Martin gets Canadian submarine contract
Jul 05, 2016 (UPI)
Lockheed Martin has been awarded an $11 million contract by the government of Canada to provide fire control system support work for four Victoria-class submari...
Russian ship conducts 'aggressive' moves near US cruiser
Jul 03, 2016 (AFP)
A Russian warship sailed uncomfortably close to a US navy ship in the eastern Mediterranean this week, conducting maneuvers that US army officials denounced as ...
Ingalls Shipbuilding gets $272 million LHA-8 contract
Jul 01, 2016 (UPI)
Ingalls Shipbuilding, a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries, has been awarded a $272 million fixed-price-incentive U.S. Navy contract for the planning, ad...
Navy tests Magic Carpet carrier landing technology
Jun 29, 2016 (UPI)
A U.S. Navy technological innovation that makes landing fixed-wing aircraft on an aircraft carrier easier was tested aboard the USS George Washington in the pas...
Elbit's Seagull completes torpedo launch trials
Jun 28, 2016 (UPI)
Elbit Systems recently completed a test launch of a lightweight torpedo from its Seagull multi-mission, autonomous unmanned surface vessel, IsraelDefense magazi...
Source: U.S. Gatling guns placed on North Korea boats
Jun 28, 2016 (UPI)
North Korea is equipping its border patrol boats with U.S.-made Gatling guns, the Yonhap News Agency reported Tuesday. Yonhap quoted unnamed military sources, w...
Lockheed gets SQQ-89 undersea warfare contract
Jun 22, 2016 (UPI)
Lockheed Martin Missile and Fire Control has been awarded a $14 million cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-plus-incentive-fee U.S. Navy contract for support of the SQQ-8...
DCNS promotes its Gowind corvette, Scorpene submarine
Jun 20, 2016 (UPI)
French naval shipbuilder DCNS is touting its Gowind corvettes and Scorpene submarines at the Baltic Military Expo in Gdansk, Poland. The promotion comes this we...
Turkey launches new corvette
Jun 20, 2016 (UPI)
Turkey has launched a third indigenously manufactured naval corvette under its MILGEM program. The Ada-class vessel, TCG Burgazada, took to water late last week...
USS Zumwalt completes acceptance trials
Jun 17, 2016 (UPI)
The USS Zumwalt (DDG 1000) has passed its acceptance trials, the ship's electronics developer Raytheon announced Friday. Raytheon is the prime mission-systems e...
Less is More: Russia Opts for Lower-Cost but More Capable Navy
Jun 17, 2016 (Sputnik)
The Russian Navy has received a welcome boost with the arrival of two of its new series of naval frigates - the Admiral Grigorovich, which arrived at its home b...
Jacobs Engineering conducts T4S work for Navy
Jun 14, 2016 (UPI)
The U.S. Naval Warfare Center Weapons Division has given Jacobs Engineering Group a five-year $427 million contract for T4S services. Under the award, Jacobs wi...
Spanish frigate heads to Norfolk for combat tests
Jun 13, 2016 (UPI)
The Spanish frigate Cristobal Colon got underway to Norfolk Sunday for a series of combat system certification tests, the Spanish navy said. The ship left its b...
GAO: Don't fund Navy's LCS in 2017 defense budget
Jun 10, 2016 (UPI)
Congress should consider not funding any Fiscal 2017 Littoral Combat Ships while ensuring the Navy has an acquisition strategy for the replacement frigate progr...
France grants active duty status to FREMM frigate
Jun 10, 2016 (UPI)
The second FREMM frigate of the French Navy has been given active duty status, the French Navy reports. The status of the Provence was announced on Thursday by ...
Home beckons for America's floating fortress
Jun 09, 2016 (AFP)
Waffles and pancakes are being doused with maple syrup. A baseball game burbles unwatched from the flatscreen television on the wall. Wardroom 3 on the Harry S....
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