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Saudi crown prince in Spain as warship sale mooted
Apr 12, 2018 (AFP)
Spain's King Felipe VI met with Prince Mohammed bin Salman, who serves as defence minister and also controls economic policy for the world's top oil exporter, a...
NGOs urge Spain not to sell warships to Saudi Arabia
Apr 10, 2018 (AFP)
The "Arms Under Control" collective, which includes Amnesty International, Oxfam and Greenpeace, also called on Spain to stop exporting arms to the Saudi-led co...
Lockheed Martin to upgrade weapons systems on naval destroyers
Apr 09, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $80.3 million under the terms of a fixed-price-incentive contract, which is a mo...
US approves licence for Taiwan submarine plan
Apr 08, 2018 (AFP)
Taiwan last year launched a plan to manufacture its own submarines amid deteriorating relations with China after its hopes of buying them from the US came to no...
Huntington Ingalls awarded $57M for repairs on USS Fitzgerald
Apr 04, 2018 (UPI)
Under the terms of the roughly $57 million contract, the Virginia-based company will make further repairs to the ship in Pascagoula, Miss., where the Arleigh Bu...
Northrop to produce gun modules for Littoral Combat Ships
Apr 03, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $7.4 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract, which is a modifica...
Navy awards HII $180M for long-lead material for USS Enterprise
Apr 03, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $179.9 million under the terms of a cost-plus-incentive-fee, which is a modifica...
Huntington Ingalls awarded $55M for support of USS Gerald R. Ford
Apr 02, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $55.8 million under the terms of a cost-plus-fixed fee contract, which is a modi...
China's aircraft carrier spotted in huge naval drill
Mar 30, 2018 (AFP)
The pictures, taken by Planet Labs Inc., appear to show the Liaoning carrier at the centre of a formation of more than 40 other ships lined up in pairs south of...
Roosevelt Carrier Strike Group returns to 7th Fleet
Mar 27, 2018 (UPI)
The group, led by Carrier Strike Group 9, successfully completed more than four months in the Arabian Gulf, where the Navy's 5th Fleet operates, said the Navy p...
Lockheed to support MK 48 heavyweight torpedo efforts
Mar 23, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $65.9 million under the terms of a cost-plus-incentive-fee, cost-fixed-fee, co...
Navy awards contract to Gulf Island for new towing and rescue ship
Mar 19, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Friday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $63.5 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price and fixed-price with economi...
Chinese shipmaker leaks aircraft carrier, nuclear sub plans
Mar 18, 2018 (Sputnik)
The China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation (CSIC) appears to have leaked the scaled down model of what Beijing envisions for its next-generation aircraft carri...
General Dynamics to repair USS Mesa Verde
Mar 15, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $15.2 million under the terms of a firm-fixed-price contract, which is a modi...
Northrop Grumman to provide mission module services for LCS vessels
Mar 15, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Wednesday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $46.7 million under the terms of a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, which is a c...
GenDyn contracted for components on next generation of Navy subs
Mar 13, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Monday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $696.2 million under the terms of a cost-plus-fixed-fee modification to a previo...
Navy awards $80.5M in contracts for global readiness initiative
Mar 11, 2018 (UPI)
The Defense Department announced Friday it had awarded contracts to Sotera Defense Solutions, Booz Allen Hamilton and InnovaSystems International. The contracts...
Huntington Ingalls contracted for further repairs on USS Fitzgerald
Mar 09, 2018 (UPI)
The deal, announced Thursday by the Department of Defense, is valued at more than $77.5 million under the terms of a cost-plus-fixed-fee contract, which is a mo...
'Sudden turn' by US warship led to collision off Singapore: report
Mar 08, 2018 (AFP)
Singapore's transport ministry, releasing the results of its investigation into the incident, said a "series of missteps" by the destroyer's crew and insufficie...
Wreckage of WWII aircraft carrier USS Lexington found off Australia
Mar 06, 2018 (AFP)
The wreckage was found Sunday by the team's research vessel, the R/V Petrel, some 3,000 meters (two miles) below the surface more than 500 miles (800 kilometers...
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