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March 29, 2021 – Huntington Ingalls Industries (NYSE: HII) announced today that the shipbuilding team, which includes its Newport News Shipbuilding division, has been awarded a contract modification in support of construction of the 10th Virginia-class Block V submarine. In December 2019, Newport News and teaming partner General Dynamics Electric Boat received a $22 billion contract to build nine Virginia-class…
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March 29, 2021 (Google Translation) – The Minister of Defense, Margarita Robles, visited the Submarine Flotilla at the Cartagena Military Arsenal today to inquire about the instruction and training of the personnel that will be part of the supply of the new S-80 submarine. Margarita Robles has officially announced the launching, on April 22, of the first submarine of the…
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March 23, 2021 (Google Translation) – In 2017, Norway and Germany entered into a strategic, maritime cooperation on materiel, aimed at the acquisition of identical submarines and naval strike missiles. The defense materiel organizations of Norway and Germany, NDMA and BAAINBw, have reached an agreement with the Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems on the contract for new, identical submarines. There is also…
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March 19, 2021 (Google Translation) – On the day of the 115th anniversary of the Russian submarine fleet, the team of the Admiralty Shipyards (part of the USC) laid flowers at the commemorative sign “100th anniversary of the Russian submarine forces.” For nearly a hundred years, the Admiralty Shipyards have been the flagship of the Russian submarine building industry. Serial…
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March 17, 2021 (Google Translation) – On the 17th, it was brought in Indian style at PT.PAL shipyard in Indonesia and named as ‘ALUGORO’.- Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering, the only Korean company that successfully localized Indonesia through technology transfer, successfully succeeded in the last of the three Indonesian submarines ordered overseas. Through his delivery, he proved that he is…
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March 3, 2021 – Huntington Ingalls Industries announced today that the Virginia-class submarine Montana (SSN 794) was launched into the James River at the company’s Newport News Shipbuilding division. The 7,800-ton submarine, which had been in a floating dry dock since being transferred from a construction facility in October, was submerged and moved by tugboats to the shipyard’s submarine pier,…
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February 23, 2021 – The U.S. Navy awarded Science Applications International Corp. a prime contract worth approximately $120 million to provide mission engineering and integration support to produce, test and deliver MK48 heavyweight torpedo fuel tanks for the Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Keyport. The firm-fixed-price contract was awarded and began in October 2020 and has an 18-month base period…
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February 9, 2020 (Google Translation) – Sevmash (part of the USC) mastered the use of polymer materials for the construction of nuclear submarines. They are used when installing zonal units with equipment weighing more than a hundred tons. The engineers of the design bureau of the enterprise have improved the design of fastening units and the technology of installing sites…
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January 27, 2021 (Google Translation) – At Sevmash (part of the USC) laboratory and research facilities have been significantly updated. In 2020, the research, technological and testing center of Sevmash (NITITs) was replenished with 55 new devices of the latest generation. The use of new technology has increased the reliability, accuracy and productivity of a wide range of control operations,…
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