Yearly Archive: 2020

The JSC Admiralteyskie Verfi shipyard has completed the factory sea trials of the large Project 636.3 diesel-electric submarine “Volkhov” for the Russian Navy.

Factory sea trials were carried out from June 18 to July 21. During this time, the hydro-acoustic system, radar and communications system…

BAE Systems has awarded a further five contracts to suppliers worth more than £100m, as progress on the Type 26 frigate programme continues apace at the company’s shipyards in Glasgow.

The new contracts will support 250 jobs, with the Type 26 programme sustaining more than 4,000 jobs in total acr…

The Indo-Pacific is the most significant region for America’s future, and it has become the nation’s highest-priority theater, the commander of the Hawaii-based U.S. Indo-Pacific Command told the Defense Writers Group in Washington.

Navy Adm. Philip S. Davidson held a virtual meeting today with t…

The strategic alliance between KMW and Nexter, completed in 2015, thus presents itself as an ongoing Franco-German success story.

The KNDS Group was able to book a confirmed order intake of € 4,375 million in 2019 – a significant increase over the previous year (€ 3,514 million). The order backlo…

The Russian Helicopters holding of the State Corporation Rostec has begun a cycle of flight tests of a new military transport helicopter Mi-8AMTSh-VN. The first flight of the helicopter took place at the flight test center of the National Center for Helicopter Engineering. M.L. Mil and N.I. Kamov.
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The Royal Navy’s experts in drone technology tested new kit as they get ready to deploy on operations. 700X Naval Air Squadron, the home of remotely piloted air systems (RPAS) in the navy, left their base in Cornwall to take part in Exercise Merlin Storm and put their new Phantom Flight equipment to…