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Babcock and UGL win Australian ship deal
Mar 09, 2012 (UPI)
Babcock will enter the ship support market in Australia when the contract for Anzac ship maintenance is finalized at the end of June. The British company's Aust...
USS George H.W. Bush Completes Magnetic Treatment
Mar 09, 2012 (SPX)
The aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77) successfully completed a magnetic treatment (DEPERM), March 1. The ship traveled to the Lambert Point Magneti...
Alcoa shipbuilding techniques save costs
Mar 07, 2012 (UPI)
Aluminum producer Alcoa, Inc. will see its advanced shipbuilding techniques paying off in an initial $2.1 million U.S. Navy contract. Alcoa said the processes g...
Germany preps Israeli super-sub for tests
Feb 28, 2012 (UPI)
Germany's Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft shipyard is expected to hand over one of the world's most advanced submarines to Israel's navy this year for sea trials. ...
Colombia buys submarines in anti-drug war
Feb 27, 2012 (UPI)
Colombia is ratcheting up its war on sea-faring drug traffickers and has invested in German submarines and marine craft in a boost to its navy. Sea-borne narcot...
Taiwan navy to get two US-built minehunters
Feb 27, 2012 (AFP)
Taiwan will receive two coastal minehunter ships from the United States this year as part of an arms deal that has upset Washington's ties with Beijing, media r...
Britain ordering tankers from Daewoo
Feb 23, 2012 (UPI)
Britain plans to order four 35,000-ton fuel tankers for the British navy's auxiliary fleet from Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering of South Korea. The o...
Taiwan to arm subs with US missiles: report
Feb 22, 2012 (AFP)
Taiwan's navy will arm its submarines with anti-ship missiles for the first time ever beginning next year, a report said Wednesday, as the island boosts its def...
Boeing Receives Additional SSEE Increment F Order from US Navy
Feb 21, 2012 (SPX)
Boeing has announced that the U.S. Navy has exercised an additional contract option for production and delivery of Ship's Signal Exploitation Equipment (SSEE) I...
Taiwan's navy to push submarine bid: report
Feb 20, 2012 (AFP)
Taiwan's navy will ask parliament to fund the purchase of up to eight new submarines within the next two months, reviving an acquisition that has been in limbo ...
Antony witnesses Indian Navy's battle readiness exercise
Feb 16, 2012 (IANS)
India's lone aircraft carrier, INS Viraat, may be over 50 years old, but the latest refit that it went through in 2009-10 has made it a potent warfare platform ...
US Navy Awards Northrop Grumman Contract for Next Phase of CANES Shipboard Network Consolidation Program
Feb 15, 2012 (SPX)
The U.S. Navy has awarded Northrop Grumman $37 million for the Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services (CANES) production and limited deployment ph...
Russian nuclear sub was armed during fire: report
Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)
A massive Russian navy submarine was armed with long-range nuclear missiles when it caught fire while undergoing repairs at a northern dock late last year, a re...
Russian officer hangs himself on nuclear submarine
Feb 13, 2012 (AFP)
A Russian naval officer committed suicide by hanging himself onboard a nuclear submarine based at the northwestern port of Murmansk, a navy spokesman said Monda...
Japan 'should watch' China's naval reach: report
Feb 10, 2012 (AFP)
Beijing's assertiveness in the South China Sea could soon be replicated in neighbouring waters, a Japanese government-backed report said Friday, amid rising reg...
US Navy names warship after wounded lawmaker
Feb 10, 2012 (AFP)
The US Navy named a new warship after Gabrielle Giffords on Friday, honoring the former Arizona lawmaker who survived a gunman's bullet to the head a year ago. ...
Lockheed Martin, Raytheon Team to Provide SEWIP Electronic Attack Capability for US Navy Anti-Ship Missile Defense
Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon are teaming to compete for a U.S. Navy contract that will upgrade the fleet's capability to electronically attack anti-ship missile...
Raytheon Awarded Naval Power System Contract
Feb 09, 2012 (SPX)
Raytheon has been awarded a $10 million contract from Naval Sea Systems Command to develop a pulsed power system that will enable projectiles to reach great dis...
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force Orders Airborne Laser Mine Detection Systems
Feb 07, 2012 (SPX)
The Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force has purchased four helicopter-mountable, laser mine detection systems to help protect its coastline and the daily maritime...
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon To Provide SEWIP Electronic Attack Capability For US Navy
Feb 07, 2012 (SPX)
Lockheed Martin and Raytheon are teaming to compete for a U.S. Navy contract that will upgrade the fleet's capability to electronically attack anti-ship missile...
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