Tag: Royal Netherlands Navy
Fighting Technology With Technology
Remote-controlled weapons systems provide the capability to engage close-in air and surface threats at sea. In today’s changing naval operational environment, such systems are...
Sentinel Below the Waves
Thales has delivered the first of the company’s Sentinel-U radar electronic support measures to equip the Marine Nationale’s ‘Suffren’ class nuclear-powered attack submarines.
The...
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...
Talking Dutch
Discussions concerning the procurement of new tactical radios to support the Dutch military’s Foxtrot communications modernisation programme are entering their final stages.
The Netherlands...
‘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...
Managing Maritime Combat – At Speed
The speed of warfare and the proliferation of multi-domain threats has increased the pressure on naval combat management system develpment
Hypersonic and ballistic missiles, unmanned...
Striking Back
Raytheon’s Tomahawk cruise missile Block development provides new challenges to Kongsberg’s increasingly popular Naval Strike Missile.
For a long time in the post-Cold War world,...
The Netherlands selects Naval Group for its Submarine Replacement program
Naval Group has been selected by The Netherlands Ministry of Defence for the Replacement Netherlands Submarine Capability project, based on the Barracuda family expeditionary...
Nordic Response wraps up maritime component of NATO Steadfast Defender exercise
NATO has completed the maritime component of ‘Steadfast Defender’ – its major exercise for developing and demonstrating the capability and capacity to surge reinforcements...
USMC generates amphibious presence on both NATO flanks
The US Marine Corps’ (USMC’s) 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), embarked in the US Navy’s (USN’s) USS Bataan amphibious ready group (ARG), arrived in...
