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Admiral Grigorovich frigate arrives in Sevastopol
Jun 09, 2016 (UPI)
Russia's Admiral Grigorovich frigate, the first of its class, has arrived at its permanent station at Sevastopol naval base. "This is the first vessel for dista...
Battelle, Halyard teaming on Navy medical project
Jun 09, 2016 (UPI)
Battelle and Halyard Health are teaming up on a $14.4 million U.S. Navy project aimed at saving more tissue after battlefield injuries, Battelle announced Thurs...
US Navy admiral to plead guilty in bribery scandal
Jun 09, 2016 (AFP)
A US admiral is set to plead guilty Thursday to lying to federal investigators in a bribery scandal that has tarnished a number of high-ranking navy officials. ...
Damen launches line of new auxiliary naval vessels
Jun 08, 2016 (UPI)
Damen Shipyards Group of the Netherlands has introduced a new range of multi-role auxiliary vessels for its naval clients. The vessels, with the addition of sup...
Future USNS Carson City ends acceptance trials
Jun 07, 2016 (UPI)
The future USNS Carson City (EPF 7) successfully completed acceptance trials late last month in the Gulf of Mexico, the Navy announced Monday. The ship, built b...
BAE, Babcock to service Royal Navy guns
Jun 02, 2016 (UPI)
Britain's Royal Navy is to receive support services for its medium-caliber guns from Babcock International and BAE Systems. The "total gun support" service pack...
DCNS delivers first Mistral-class carrier to Egypt
Jun 02, 2016 (UPI)
France's DCNS delivered the first of two Mistral-class helicopter carriers to Egypt on Thursday, the defense company said, part of a deal inked in October. The ...
Peru to modernize submarines
Jun 02, 2016 (UPI)
Peru has signed contracts with Elbit and ThyssenKrupp to modernize four U209-1200 submarines. The expansion project will involve bringing in Germany's ThyssenKr...
Atlas Elektronik to demo mine-hunting vessel
Jun 02, 2016 (UPI)
Atlas Elektronik UK is to demonstrate its unmanned mine-hunting mission system in the fall at the Royal Navy's high tempo Unmanned Warrior 16 demonstration. The...
Saab providing Swedish Navy with anti-submarine training
Jun 01, 2016 (UPI)
The Swedish Defense Material Administration has given Saab an order to provide advanced anti-submarine warfare training to the Swedish Navy. The training will i...
France's DCNS seeks submarine tie-up with ThyssenKrupp
Jun 01, 2016 (AFP)
French industrial giant DCNS is seeking a possible tie-up in its submarine activities with German rival ThyssenKrupp, one of its directors said in comments to G...
Long-lead Navy order for Expeditionary Mobile Base 5
Jun 01, 2016 (UPI)
General Dynamics National Steel and Shipbuilding Co. has been awarded a $106 million contract for the procurement of long-lead material and engineering support ...
UK, Germany unite for WWI Battle of Jutland centenary
May 31, 2016 (AFP)
Leaders from Britain and Germany stood together in a remote, windswept cemetery in Scotland's Orkney Islands on Tuesday, exactly 100 years on from the Battle of...
New Russian submarine launched
May 31, 2016 (UPI)
A sixth diesel-electric submarine for Russia's Black Sea fleet was launched Tuesday at a shipyard in St. Petersburg. The Varshavyanka-class sub, named Kolpino, ...
The future of sonar in semiheated oceans
May 30, 2016 (SPX)
Scientists are studying how climate change will affect the speed of sound under water to help prepare the U.S. Navy for operating in progressively warmer oceans...
BAE Systems receives Navy repair, maintenance work
May 27, 2016 (UPI)
Two U.S. Navy ships homeported in Florida are to receive repair and maintenance services from BAE Systems under contracts worth a total of $61.7 million. The sh...
Raytheon gets SM-6 contract modification
May 26, 2016 (UPI)
Raytheon Missile Systems has been awarded a $9 million U.S. Navy contract modification to exercise fiscal 2016 options for Standard Missile-6 production and spa...
Part of U.S. Navy undersea training range complete
May 25, 2016 (UPI)
The information and electronics backbone of the U.S. Navy's East Coast Undersea Warfare Training range is complete, the sea service said Tuesday. The Cable Term...
Navy takes delivery of Zumwalt-class destroyer
May 25, 2016 (UPI)
The future USS Zumwalt, a first-of-class destroyer and lead ship of next-generation multi-mission surface combatants, has been delivered to the U.S. Navy. Deliv...
New LPD for U.S. Navy christened
May 25, 2016 (UPI)
A new amphibious transport dock being built for the U.S. Navy has been christened the Portland by Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding. The Portland (LPD 27) is the ...
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