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Summary and recommendations Background 1. The Royal Australian Navy (the Navy) currently has eight ANZAC class frigates. The 2016 Defence White Paper stated that: The Government is bringing forward the future…
After a 30-year-career serving her nation on the front line around the globe, HMS Montrose’s active life came to an end today in Portsmouth. At 11.20am nearly 200 members of…
The multi-mission frigate (FREMM) Normandie sailed from Brest on April 9 to return to its theater of operations. This deployment is part of an overall strategy to strengthen the French…
Propaganda The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Eastern Theater Command continued routine patrols and exercises around the island of Taiwan on Tuesday despite the conclusion of its combat alert patrols…
On the fourth day of the fourth month the fourth Type 26 frigate – and the fourth ship to bear the name Birmingham – began to take shape on the…
Defense has 4 Anti Submarine Warfare (ASW) frigates built, 2 for the Dutch and 2 for the Belgian navy. Damen builds the ships, Thales Nederland builds the integrated radar and…
Another important stage in the construction of the “Tamandaré” Class Frigates is completed. of the first frigate of this class, that is, the keel, a structural part of a ship,…
BAE Systems, Inc. has received a $219 million (GBP181 million) contract to equip the Royal Navy’s Type 26 frigates with five Mk 45 Maritime Indirect Fire Systems (MIFS). The system…
China is building a new type of advanced frigate, which is larger and more advanced than its current Type 054A class, overseas media reported on Friday, citing commercial satellite images.…
Yesterday’s Royal Navy today handed the torch to tomorrow’s Fleet as work began on our newest frigate, HMS Active. Veterans from the last ship to bear the name were invited…