Maritime News & Articles

Air Defense Upgrade for Royal Navy Type 45 Destroyers

MBDA will provide its Common Anti-Air Modular Missile (CAMM) to offer both close-in and local-area air defense for the Type 45 destroyers

Jul 19, 2021
Canadian Department of Defense Awards Six Contracts for Defense Innovation

Ultra Maritime has won contracts to deliver a range of Anti-Submarine Warfare technologies to help acoustic sensor operators detect, classify, locate, and track underwater contacts

Jul 19, 2021
New Surface Search Radars for the French Navy

Hensoldt U.K. will provide its Kelvin Hughes Mk11 SharpEye surface search radars for French Navy Offshore Patrol Vessels to provide surface surveillance in the vicinity of the vessels

Jul 16, 2021
Fairbanks Morse to Provide Propulsion Engines for U.S. Coast Guard’s Fourth OPC

Fairbanks Morse Defense - Engine division will deliver two diesel engines for the U.S. Coast Guard’s fourth Offshore Patrol Cutter to provide powerful and reliable propulsion

Jul 16, 2021
First Successful Link 16 Tactical Data Link Exchange from UAS to U.S. Navy Ships

Curtiss-Wright supported General Atomics Aeronautical Systems in the first successful exchange of Link 16 Tactical Data Link data from an Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) to U.S. Navy surface ships

Jul 16, 2021
Continued On-Time Delivery of EMALS and AAG to U.S. Navy

General Atomics Electromagnetic Systems continues to deliver Electromagnetic Aircraft Launch System (EMALS) and Advanced Arresting Gear (AAG) to equip future aircraft carriers of the U.S. Navy

Jul 14, 2021
Long Range Guided Missile System Combines AI and Automatic Target Recognition

Sea Breaker utilizes Rafael’s electro-optics, computer vision, Artificial Intelligence and decision-making algorithms for full operational capability in GNSS-denied environments for maritime superiority missions

Jul 14, 2021
Tripartite Agreement to Enhance Ukrainian Naval Capabilities

Babcock will lead British and Ukrainian industrial partners to assist in delivering fast attack missile craft, a modern frigate capability, shipborne armaments and training of naval personnel for the Ministry of Defence of Ukraine

Jul 14, 2021
U.S. Navy Receives Independence-class LCS-28

Designed to defeat asymmetric ‘anti-access’ threats, such as mines, submarines and surface craft, the high-speed Littoral Combat Ship integrates new technology to support current and future missions from deep water to the littoral zone

Jul 13, 2021
Germany Signs Deal for Five Boeing P-8A Poseidon Aircraft

The P-8A Poseidon is designed to offer unique multimission capability such as anti-submarine warfare, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions, as well as search-and-rescue operations

Jul 13, 2021
Nine Additional CH-53K King Stallion Helicopters for U.S. Navy

The CH-53K will support the U.S. Marine Corps' mission to conduct expeditionary heavy-lift assault transport of armored vehicles, equipment and personnel to support distributed operations deep inland from a sea-based center of operations

Jul 12, 2021
Advancing Defense Capability Through Strategic Collaboration Defense Advancement works with major OEMs to foster collaboration and increase engagement with SMEs, to accelerate innovation and drive defense capabilities forward.