Maritime News & Articles

U.S. Navy Takes Delivery of Seahawk Unmanned Vessel

The U.S. Navy’s acquisition of the Leidos Seahawk Autonomous Surface Vessel demonstrates another significant step in the military’s adoption of unmanned platforms that use artificial intelligence to enhance operational abilities

Jun 25, 2021
Saab to Deliver Next-Generation Live Training Systems for USMC

Saab will provide a full turnkey live training capability to include equipment deliveries for individual Marine weapons and vehicles, logistics and maintenance support, and training exercise support at all major U.S. Marine Corps installations worldwide

Jun 25, 2021
U.S. Navy Awards Knifefish UUV Retrofit Contract to General Dynamics

The retrofit will enable Knifefish to operate at deeper depths, identify more complex target environments, provide more precise localization, and reduce risk to personnel by operating within minefields as an off-board sensor

Jun 25, 2021
U.K. MoD Awards Contract for Development of New Police Patrol Craft

MST Group has won a contract with the U.K. Ministry of Defence to supply eighteen 15.0m high-speed patrol craft to replace Police Patrol Launches currently in use by the U.K. Ministry of Defence Police and Gibraltar Defence Police

Jun 23, 2021
Austal USA Awarded Autonomous Ship Development Contract

The contract from the U.S. Navy covers the design, procurement, production implementation and demonstration of autonomous capability on Expeditionary Fast Transport (EPF) 13, USNS Apalachicola

Jun 23, 2021
8 Italian-Made Frigates for Indonesian Navy

Fincantieri will supply 6 new FREMM class frigates and 2 used Maestrale class frigates to the Indonesian Navy in this agreement that strengthens the collaboration between two countries in a strategic area of the Pacific

Jun 23, 2021
General Dynamics to Provide Lightweight Shipping Containers for U.S. Navy

General Dynamics' lightweight shipping containers will be used aboard U.S. Navy Littoral Combat Ships to house modular mission packages that allow the ships to perform mine countermeasures, surface warfare, and anti-submarine operations

Jun 22, 2021
Unmanned Mine Countermeasures Modernization for the Latvian Navy Underway

ECA GROUP has reached the first milestone within the modernization program of 3 mine countermeasures (MCM) vessels belonging to the Latvian Navy. This first milestone consists of disassembling the legacy equipment of MCM vessels

Jun 22, 2021
New Submarine Rescue Ship for Italian Navy

The Special Diving Operations - Submarine Rescue Ship by T. Mariotti will be equipped with an advanced command and control system, modern SAR assets, a flight deck, and an integrated deep diving system including moon pool

Jun 21, 2021
Turkey’s ULAQ Armed USV Completes First Live-Fire Test

Meteksan has successfully completed the first live-fire test of its ULAQ armed USV. The target was detected by the ULAQ sensors and two CIRIT laser-guided missiles were fired and scored direct hits on the target

Jun 18, 2021
New Communications Systems for Italian Coast Guard

Rohde & Schwarz will equip the Italian Coast Guard’s Natale De Grazia vessel with its SOVERON M3SR Series4100 high frequency radios to enable effective exchange of information with the shore and other vessels

Jun 17, 2021
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