US Navy

Washington: Raytheon is investing in its Standard Missile 3 lines to accelerate the production rate of the US Navy weapon, as global interest in procuring the capability expands amid successful intercepts against ballistic missile...

Washington: For the US Navy to achieve a proposed plan to expand its fleet of battle force ships, the service would need to spend $40.1 billion on shipbuilding every year through 2054, for a...

Tel Aviv: The US has intensified its actions to dwarf the continued attacks performed by the Houthi rebels in Yemen against shipping in the Red Sea and Israel. The Houthis are now the most active...

Washington: The US Navy has wasted $1.84 billion since 2015 on rehabilitating its Ticonderoga class guided-missile cruisers, funds the service would rather have spent on newer technology, according to a government watchdog report. The Government...

New Delhi: India’s Pipavav Shipyard has completed its first project after resuming operations in August. The yard, currently owned by Swan Energy, has been refitting the Indian Coast Guard patrol vessel Raj Ratan since...

Costa Mesa (California): Anduril is putting a new autonomous submarine known as Dive-XL through endurance runs off the coast of California, as it seeks to tap into what company executives say they see as...

Bethesda, Maryland. The US Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) has awarded Lockheed Martin a $245 million dollar contract extension for the MK-48 Guidance and Control (G&C) Mod 7 program. This contract combines purchases for...

Milan: The NATO alliance has begun planning for its own fleet of unmanned boats meant to help protect critical undersea infrastructure across the Baltic and Mediterranean seas. Following a pattern of undersea cable damage across...

Washington: The US Navy is transforming a costly flub into a potent weapon with the first shipborne hypersonic weapon, which is being retrofitted aboard the first of its three stealthy destroyers. The guided-missile destroyer Zumwalt...

Washington: The Office of Management and Budget delivered a request to Congress for approximately $5.7 billion in emergency funding to account for unexpected “shortfalls” in the US Navy’s Virginia-class fast attack submarine program, according...

Beirut: Turkish firm Baykar’s unmanned combat aerial vehicle (UCAV) Bayraktar TB3 performed its first successful flight test to take off and land on the Turkish ship TCG Anadolu, a short runway vessel, the firm...

Washington:  France’s national shipbuilder Naval Group unveiled its first ever unmanned surface vessel designed to operate in conjunction with manned warships following limited testing alongside the French Navy. The drone, dubbed Seaquest and measuring approximately...

Washington: US Navy pilots sitting comfortably in Maryland recently took a new carrier-based drone control centre out for a spin for the first time, piloting a General Atomics MQ-20 Avenger thousands of miles away...