HII Donates Caisson to VMRC Tower Reef
HII announced July 6th that its Newport News Shipbuilding division partnered with the Virginia Marine Resource Commission (VMRC) to donate and sink a former dry dock caisson gate offshore, giving…
Vympel Shipyard Launches Burevestnik for FSB
At the shipyard “Vympel” (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) a solemn launch of the border guard ship “Burevestnik” project “Guis” (PSKR) took place. The ceremony was attended by: the…
BAE Systems Wins New Launcher Design Contract
BAE Systems was awarded a $37 million U.S. Department of Defense Ordnance Technology Consortium (DOTC) contract to design the Next Generation Evolved SeaSparrow Missile Launch System (NGELS). The company will…
Vancouver Shipyards Getting Land-Based Test Site
To further advance its shipbuilding capabilities, Seaspan has begun construction on a new Land-Based Test Site (LBTS) at Vancouver Shipyards that will integrate and test vital ship communications, navigation, and…
Germany Orders Three New SIGINT Ships
A few days after the approval of the Budget Committee of the German Bundestag, the President of the Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Federal Armed…
French Ships Sortie from Fort de France to Avoid Storm
At the request of Rear Admiral Éric Aymard, Senior Commander of the Armed Forces in the West Indies (FAA), the Dixmude set sail on June 21 from Fort-de-France with the…
Two Russian Corvettes on Seven Day Visit to Shanghai
Two Russian warships, Russian Navy corvettes RFS Sovershennyy (333) and RFS Gromkiy (335), arrived at the Shanghai port on Wednesday for their first friendly visit, the seventh by Russia’s naval…
HII Celebrates First Meal Aboard Future USS New Jersey
HII’s Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) division moved another step closer toward delivery of Virginia-class submarine New Jersey (SSN 796) to the U.S. Navy when the first meal was recently served…