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Future Navy LPD USS Portland completes Builder's Trials
Jul 05, 2017 (UPI)
The ship, built at Huntington Ingalls Industries' shipyard in Pascagoula, is now being prepared for Acceptance Trials later this summer, the Navy announced on W...
Huntington Ingalls contracted for LPD 29 amphibious transport ship
Jul 03, 2017 (UPI)
The modification provides for long-lead time manufacturing materials and construction, the Department of Defense announced on June 30. Work will be conducted in...
BAE building Britain's first Type 26 frigates
Jul 03, 2017 (UPI)
The award for the Global Combat Ship program is worth more than $4.81 billion. Steel for the first ship will be cut in Glasgow, Scotland, in the coming weeks, B...
Navy christens littoral combat ship USS Billings
Jul 03, 2017 (UPI)
Wisconsin Sen. Tammy Baldwin gave the primary address and Sharla Tester, wife of ranking member of the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee Jon Tester, served as s...
Saab receives contract to upgrade Swedish patrol vessels
Jun 30, 2017 (UPI)
The contract calls for life-extension services for the HMS Galve and HMS Sundsvall with follow-up inspections after three years. It also includes the installati...
Rostec reveals Pantsir-ME naval point-defense system
Jun 30, 2017 (UPI)
Designed by the Russian Instrument Design Bureau or KBP, the Pantsir-ME combines two 30mm Gatling type cannons with eight infrared surface-to-air missiles in a ...
China launches first Type 055 destroyer
Jun 28, 2017 (UPI)
The ship is expected to enter service in 2018 following sea trials and testing. It is the first of four planned initial vessels in the class and would be the mo...
Huntington Ingalls awarded contract for Flight III destroyers
Jun 28, 2017 (UPI)
Under the contract, announced by the Department of Defense on Tuesday, the Jack H. Lucas will be the first Arleigh Burke-class destroyer to incorporate the Flig...
Australia's aviation training ship sails to home port
Jun 28, 2017 (UPI)
The MV Sycamore will be commercially operated but will provide the Royal Australian Navy with a helicopter deck and associated training facilities, dedicated av...
UK's new aircraft carrier sets sail for first time
Jun 26, 2017 (AFP)
HMS Queen Elizabeth, a 280-metre (919-foot), 65,000-tonne vessel, left the dock at the port of Rosyth on the Firth of Forth estuary near Edinburgh. The ship cos...
Austal awarded $584.2 million for littoral combat ship construction
Jun 26, 2017 (UPI)
The contract, announced by the Department of Defense on Friday, includes options for the construction of an additional LCS and services after delivery. The Navy...
New torpedo planned for French navy passes qualification firing
Jun 24, 2017 (UPI)
DCNS said in a news release Thursday the qualification firing of its F21, part of the Artemas Program of the French arms procurement agency DGA, took place off ...
Electric Boat receives $203 million Trident II missile tube contract
Jun 24, 2017 (UPI)
The contract applies to the joint U.S. Navy-United Kingdom Common Missile Compartment program. The work will be undertaken at Groton, Conn., Newport News, Va., ...
Arete Associates receives mine detection contract for Littoral Combat Ship
Jun 24, 2017 (UPI)
The contract will provide the AN/DVS-1 COBRA for the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship mine countermeasures role, the Department of Defense announced Thursday. The wo...
Metal Shark Boats receives patrol vessel contract
Jun 22, 2017 (UPI)
The contract provides for 13 NCPV patrol vessels, 13 electro-optical infrared sensor systems, diagnostic equipment, reactivation, crew familiarization, and test...
Leidos receives anti-submarine warfare system contract
Jun 20, 2017 (UPI)
The contract modification will cover transport of materials, costs related to logistical support, waterfront operations, and installation of the AN/SQQ-89A(V)15...
New Navy transport launched
Jun 20, 2017 (UPI)
The Spearhead-class vessel, intended for intra-theater transport of cargo and troops, took to water at an Austal shipyard earlier this month in Mobile, Ala. "La...
Austal, ASC team to build Aussie frigates
Jun 20, 2017 (UPI)
Construction of the nine ships is to begin in 2020. "The Austal/ASC Shipbuilding teaming arrangement offers a compelling, low-risk, Australian shipbuilding solu...
BAE System, QinetiQ partnering on electric drive system
Jun 20, 2017 (UPI)
"This strategic partnership with QinetiQ in the electric drive field ensures we are offering our customers a mature, low-cost technology that can enhance the pe...
Royal Australian Navy receives first Hobart-class destroyer
Jun 20, 2017 (UPI)
The destroyer has already completed several weeks of sea trials with testing of its vital systems and is expected to be commissioned by the RAN next year. The c...
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