RIMPAC 2024

RAN conducts successful NSM firing at RIMPAC

The Royal Australian Navy (RAN) has successfully test-fired a Naval Strike Missile (NSM) during the US Navy (USN)-hosted ‘RIMPAC’ exercise off Hawaii. The NSM anti-ship...

First sea trials for the Oostende, the first mine countermeasures vessel in the Belgian-Dutch...

The Oostende, the first of the series of mine countermeasures vessels in the Belgian-Dutch rMCM programme, intended for the Belgian Navy, began its first...

Saab UK Triumphs at Charity Defense Industry Sailing Regatta

A team from defence technology company Saab UK has won the Reginald Fessenden Challenge, an annual sailing event held in The Solent on the...
UK-Ukr-MOD

New UK defence secretary underlines security commitment priorities

The UK’s incoming Secretary of State (SofS) for Defence has underlined several key defence and security commitments the country’s new government will continue to...
JAGM

JAGM Scores Moving Target Kill

The US Marines announced the successful engagement of a moving watercraft target by one of its AH-1Z Viper attack helicopters using the AGM-179 Joint-Air-To-Ground...
V-BAT

V-Bat Unmanned Aerial System for US Coast Guard

Shield AI has received another order for its V-Bat Unmanned Aerial System. The US Coast Guard announced on 2 July 2024 its award of...
Suffren class submarines

Silent Running

The increased popularity among navies to own their own submarine fleets are driving new advances in submarine propulsion. If the SEA 1000 submarine programme in...
USS Carl Vinson

‘RIMPAC’ naval presence underlines Indo-Pacific/Euro-Atlantic strategic linkage

The US Navy’s (USN’s) major biennial ‘Rim of the Pacific’ (‘RIMPAC’) exercise got underway off Hawaii on 27 June, with the exercise’s routine multinational...
Vision Pace

Vision Pace Product Launch: Eurosatory

OpenWorks has launched its latest product, developed specifically for optical tracking and fire-control targeting, optimised for dynamic small aerial targets and gunfire control. At a...
Admiral Gorshkov-class frigates

Russia deploys task group to Caribbean and Cuba

A Russian Federation Navy task group has visited Havana, Cuba, in what is being seen as a display of power projection capability. Four naval vessels...

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