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Jun 24, 2013 (UPI)

Components of the future U.S. Navy amphibious assault ship Tripoli have been joined together during a ceremony at a shipyard in Mississippi. Huntington Ingalls ...

Navy taps CACI for more engineering, technical services support

Jun 23, 2013 (UPI)

The U.S. Navy has contracted CACI International for continued support for weapon systems engineering, technology, and logistics. The Engineering and Technical R...

Saft batteries powering new F21 heavyweight torpedo

Jun 22, 2013 (UPI)

F21 heavyweight torpedoes by French naval defense company DCNS are being powered by silver oxide-aluminum electro-chemical battery stacks from Saft. The silver ...

Ministry of Defense contract for Babcock

Jun 22, 2013 (UPI)

Weapon handling and launch systems on British submarines are receiving support services from Babcock Defense Systems Technology UK. The contract, which also cov...

US blames captain for ship loss on Philippine reef

Jun 21, 2013 (AFP)

A US warship that ran aground on a protected coral reef in the Philippines was doomed by its top officers' "lack of leadership", the US Navy has concluded in a ...

Australia plans on building new patrol boats for regional partners

Jun 20, 2013 (UPI)

Australia is planning a new project to procure patrol boats for regional countries as part of security cooperation efforts. The project is called the Pacific Pa...

Taiwan completes de-mining programme as China ties warm

Jun 16, 2013 (AFP)

Around 1,000 people have waded along the beachfront on Taiwan's Kinmen island to mark the completion of a seven-year de-mining programme in an area that was onc...

Thales Australia gives pre-award contract to RPC Technologies

Jun 13, 2013 (UPI)

Australian engineering company RPC Technologies has been pre-awarded a contract by Thales Australia to produce dashboards for the Hawkei armored vehicle. The pr...

Northrop Grumman to Support U.S. Navy on Minehunting Integration

Jun 12, 2013 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman has been awarded a contract to support the U.S. Navy's integration onto an unmanned surface vehicle (USV) of the Northrop Grumman-built AQS-24A...

Canada chooses German design for new naval support ships

Jun 12, 2013 (UPI)

Canada wants to build navy support ships using a German design but isn't sure when it will get modern replacements for nearly its nearly obsolete vessels. Canad...

Ireland exercises contract option for offshore patrol boat

Jun 11, 2013 (UPI)

Ireland has placed an order with Babcock Marine for a third offshore patrol vessel, exercising an option of a current contract with the company. The OPV will co...

France orders nuclear sub security investigation

Jun 11, 2013 (AFP)

France on Tuesday ordered an inquiry into security at a nuclear submarine base off its western cost following a report that the ultra-sensitive site could easil...

Keel laying for 125-class German frigate

Jun 10, 2013 (UPI)

ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems has laid the keel at its Hamburg facility for the third of four 125-class frigates for the German Navy. The frigate, also known as a...

Swedish military taps Saab for submarine projects

Jun 09, 2013 (UPI)

Saab has received orders from Sweden's military procurement agency related to the construction and production plans of next-generation submarines. The orders, w...

Navy replacing minesweepers based in Japan

Jun 06, 2013 (UPI)

Two U.S. Navy mine counter-measure ships are on their way to Japan as part of the service's forward deployed naval forces. The Avenger-class ships are the USS P...

Australia and India plan naval exercise

Jun 06, 2013 (UPI)

Australia and India will hold their first joint naval exercise in 2015, Australian Minster for Defense Stephen Smith said. The announcement was made in Canberra...

Another FREMM frigate enters construction

Jun 06, 2013 (UPI)

Steel has been cut this week at an Italian shipyard for the seventh FREMM multi-mission frigate for the Italian Navy. The frigate will be 474 feet long, 65 feet...

Northrop Grumman to Bid on CANES Navy Tactical Afloat Contract

Jun 05, 2013 (SPX)

Northrop Grumman will submit a bid for the U.S. Navy Consolidated Afloat Network and Enterprise Services (CANES) full deployment contract. "The CANES program is...

Royal Navy receiving accoustic targets for training

Jun 05, 2013 (UPI)

Underwater mobile acoustic targets are to be deployed and maintained for Britain's Ministry of Defense by QinetiQ. The targets are torpedo-sized systems that si...

BAE Systems announces new Type 26 frigate design contracts

Jun 04, 2013 (UPI)

Six companies have joined the BAE Systems team building the new Type 26 frigate for Britain's Royal Navy. The six companies receiving design contracts are: Babc...