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NKorea threatens to attack SKorea ships as tempers flare
Seoul: North Korea vowed Thursday to attack any South Korean ships which violate their disputed border and Seoul’s navy staged its own show of strength amid continuing high tension over the sinking of a warship. Pyongyang’s military general staff also scrapped a pact which guards against accidental naval clashes at the flashpoint border, and repeated [...]
Aegis Combat System Completes Ship Qualification Trials
MOORESTOWN, NJ:Lockheed Martin, in support of the U.S. Navy, successfully completed Combat System Ship Qualification Trials (CSSQT) for Aegis Combat Systems installed aboard U.S. and Spanish navy ships. The last time these two nations participated in a combined CSSQT was in 2007. The latest event was conducted at sea last week in the vicinity of [...]
Sister Ships Perform Awesome Double Act
The Royal Navy’s two newest warships – formidable air defense destroyers HMS Daring and HMS Dauntless – have performed side-by-side at sea for the first time. The Type 45 destroyers successfully completed a series of complex manoeuvres south of the Isle of Wight today (February 15). The pair sailed at high speeds to simulate the [...]
Russian warship to continue escorting vessels off Somalia
Moscow: A Russian warship will escort a regular convoy of commercial vessels through pirate-infested waters off the Horn of Africa on Tuesday, a Navy spokesman said. The Admiral Chabanenko destroyer from Russia’s Northern Fleet, which is presently replenishing its supplies from the Lena tanker, began escorting commercial ships in the Gulf of Aden on December [...]
HDW and HSY Cancel Shipbuilding Contracts
HAMBURG, Germany / SKARAMANGAS, Greece: Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH (HDW), Kiel, Germany, and Hellenic Shipyards S.A. (HSY), Skaramangas, Athens, today canceled the construction programs signed with the Greek defense ministry in 2000 and 2002. The first contract involves the construction of four Class U214 submarines with air-independent fuel cell propulsion for the Hellenic Navy (“Archimedes” program). [...]
Committee Approves FY 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill
WASHINGTON, DC: The U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee today unanimously approved the Fiscal Year 2010 Department of Defense Appropriations bill. I. Summary: FY 2010 Defense Appropriations The bill: Provides $636.3 billion in new discretionary spending authority for the Department of Defense for functions under the Defense Subcommittee’s jurisdiction, including $128.2 billion for overseas contingency operations Recommendation [...]
Construction of Royal Navy’s New Aircraft Carriers Begins
Construction began on the Royal Navy’s new aircraft carriers, their largest ever warships, today with Her Royal Highness The Princess Royal performing the initial steel-cutting for the first of the ships. The steel-cutting ceremony took place at BVT Surface Fleet’s shipyard in Govan, today, Tuesday 7 July 2009. The Queen Elizabeth (QE) Class carriers, together [...]
Russian ships return home after anti-piracy duty
VLADIVOSTOK: The Russian Pacific Fleet’s Admiral Panteleyev destroyer and Irkut tanker returned on Wednesday to their base in Vladivostok after an anti-piracy mission in the Gulf of Aden. The Udaloy-class destroyer, accompanied by a salvage tugboat and two tankers, joined the anti-piracy campaign on April 27, 2009, and patrolled the pirate-infested waters off the Somali [...]
Singapore Navy to Upgrade Mine Countermeasures Vessels
Following a call for international tender, the Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA) of Singapore awarded Thales with the Life Extension Programme (LEP) of its 4 Bedok class mine-countermeasure vessels. This significant contract highlights the relevance of both Thales’s naval technology portfolio and its comprehensive set of skills and capabilities to address key modernisation programs [...]
