FLOATING STEEL

News About Ships and Submarines

3,221 articles

French and Italian shipbuilders sign alliance
Jun 14, 2019 (AFP)
"This is the culmination of a shared industrial ambition, which is the long-term position of the European shipbuilding industrial market which has undergone a p...
HII awarded $687M to modernize, maintain USS Gerald R. Ford
Jun 13, 2019 (UPI)
The contract, announced by the Department of Defense on Wednesday, includes five ordering periods for support of ship repair and modernization. The services inc...
Bath Iron Works gets $61.6M for work on Navy's DDG 51 destroyers
Jun 10, 2019 (UPI)
The Defense Department announced the contract with the company, a division of General Dynamics in Bath, Maine, on Friday. "Lead yard services" is a broad catego...
U.S., Russian warships narrowly avoid collision
Jun 07, 2019 (UPI)
Russia, however, claims the Chancellorsville hindered the passage of the Vinogradov in the East China Sea. The Russian anti-submarine ship made an "unsafe maneu...
GenDyn nets $25.6M for MK46 gun systems on Navy's LCS, LPD vessels
Jun 06, 2019 (UPI)
The contract is for two 30mm MK46 MOD 2 GWSs for the surface warfare mission module on each LCS, the future Robert M. McCool Jr., which designated as LPD-29, an...
Navy to rotate guided-missile destroyers, add helicopter squadron in Spain
Jun 06, 2019 (UPI)
The USS Donald Cook, USS Ross, USS Porter and USS Carney will cycle out of Naval Station Rota starting in 2020 and ending in spring 2022, the Navy announced Tue...
Ford-class combat system completes test, first carrier further delayed
Jun 04, 2019 (UPI)
On Tuesday, Raytheon announced a U.S. Navy unmanned self-defense test ship simulated a scenario the Ford may encounter once deployed. Two anti-ship missile surr...
Chinese warships cause surprise in Sydney Harbour
Jun 03, 2019 (AFP)
Amid heightened concern about Beijing's growing clout and military muscle flexing, the appearance of a Chinese flagged task group and around 700 sailors came as...
Lockheed awarded $9.3M for post shakedown work on USS Billings
Jun 03, 2019 (UPI)
The contract will provide advance planning, accomplishment and emergent availabilities for the ship, designated as LCS-15, the U.S. Defense Department announced...
GenDyn tapped for AH-1Z Viper gun turrets for Navy, Bahrain
May 31, 2019 (UPI)
The company's Ordnance and Tactical Systems division will build 37 modified A/A49E-7(V4) gun turrets used on AH-1Z "Viper" helicopters -- 25 for the U.S. Navy a...
U.S. Navy's 2nd Fleet reaches initial operational capability
May 30, 2019 (UPI)
The 2nd fleet was brought back last May as a "leaner, agile and more expeditionary," fleet, Rear Adm. John Mustin said, to support North Atlantic and Arctic ope...
Ford-class carrier USS John F. Kennedy gets its command center
May 29, 2019 (UPI)
The 588-ton "island house," 56 feet long and 33 feet wide, was installed by crane atop the nuclear-powered vessel at Huntington Ingalls Industries' Newport News...
HII cuts first steel for Columbia-class submarine program
May 24, 2019 (UPI)
A plasma-burning machine cut the first steel plate to be used to build Columbia, which is designated as SSBN 826 and the lead ballistic missile submarine in the...
Navy's Zumwalt destroyers to join drone ships in new experimental squadron
May 23, 2019 (UPI)
Vice Adm. Richard Brown, commander of Naval Surface Forces and Naval Surface Force Pacific, announced the formation of Surface Development Squadron One, or SURF...
Raytheon awarded $246M in two contracts for Navy's jet landing systems
May 23, 2019 (UPI)
One contract is worth $234.6 million for 23 joint precision approach and landing systems, and another one is for a replacement GPS sensor for the JPALS, the Def...
Boeing nets $51.5M for engineering support on Navy's C-40As
May 22, 2019 (UPI)
The contract includes sustaining engineering, engineering data, technical publications, access to and distribution of technical data and publications, and other...
Lockheed nabs $63.1M Navy contract for work on undersea warfare system
May 22, 2019 (UPI)
The contract with Lockheed Martin Rotary and Missions Systems, headquartered in Manassas, Va., was announced on Tuesday. It is a modification to a prior contrac...
Aircraft carrier USS Ronald Reagan deploys to Indo-Pacific region
May 22, 2019 (UPI)
The carrier left its home port of Yokosuka Naval Base, Japan, in its first deployment of 2019. Sailors wore their dress whites and lined the flight deck as it l...
GenDyn nets $497M for submarine, carrier industrial base expansion
May 21, 2019 (UPI)
The contract, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, covers expansion of the submarine industrial base to support development and construction of the Co...
USS Lincoln, USS Kearsarge conduct joint operations in Persian Gulf
May 20, 2019 (UPI)
The two strike groups, along with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit from Camp Leguene, N.C., worked together on Friday and Saturday as members of the Fifth Fle...
The content herein, unless otherwise known to be public domain, is Copyright 1995-2026 Space Media Network. All websites are published in Australia and are solely subject to Australian law and governed by Fair Use principles for news reporting and research purposes.