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MAY 2019 news
Naval Forces, Defense Industry, Navy Technology, Maritime Security |
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Raytheon Company will integrate the Naval Strike Missile into the U.S. Marine Corps' existing force structure under a $47.59 million Other Transaction Authority agreement with Marine Corps Systems Command. A USMC NSM supports the 2018 National Defense Strategy and Commandant of the Marine Corps modernization efforts.
Russia plans to manufacture 12 upgraded Project 22350M frigates capable of carrying each up to 48 Kalibr, Oniks and Tsirkon cruise missiles, a source in the shipbuilding industry told TASS.
The Ukrainian Navy, with its Pryluky missile boat, and the UK Royal Navy, with its Echo hydrographic survey vessel, conducted joint military exercises in the Black Sea, according to a statement the press service of the Ukrainian Navy made on May 10.
The Ohio-class ballistic-missile submarine USS Rhode Island (SSBN 740) along with the U.S. Navy's Strategic Systems Programs (SSP) conducted a successful test flight of one unarmed Trident II D5 missile, May 9.
The Abraham Lincoln Carrier Strike Group (CSG 12) of the US 6th Fleet and components of its embarked air wing, Carrier Air Wing (CVW) 7, along with the U.S. Air Force 603rd Air Control Squadron, completed a close air support (CAS) exercise with Romanian Air Force partners, May 3-5.
The U.S. Navy hospital ship USNS Comfort (T-AH 20) is scheduled to deploy in June from Naval Station Norfolk to the Caribbean, Central America and South America to conduct humanitarian medical assistance missions in support of regional partners and in response to the regional impacts of political and economic crises in Venezuela.
Boeing is expected to deliver its first F/A-18 Block III Super Hornet newest highly capable, affordable and available tactical aircraft in 2020, a senior official said during the Sea Air Space Exposition at the Gaylord National Convention Center in National Harbor.
The exercise Varuna started on May 01, off Goa and Karwar. This maritime exercise will be held jointly by the Indian Navy and the French Navy (Marine Nationale in French). As part of the event is present the French aircraft carrier FS Charles de Gaulle. The Indian aircraft carrier INS Vikramaditya was also scheduled to take part in the exercise but recently had to dock due to a fire that broke out on the warship. On May 09, Indian and French warships took to the seas off Goa to take part in the sea phase of the bilateral exercise.
The Indian Defence Acquisition Council (DAC), headed by Defence minister Nirmala Sitharaman, recently approved the Rs 3,600 crore ($US 5 million) proposal to buy 10 Kamov-31 AEW Helicopters from Russia for the Indian Navy.
The U.S. Navy recently conducted a firing test of the N5 naval variant of the Excalibur precision-guided projectile. The test took place in September at Yuma Proving Ground, in Arizona.
A U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer joined ships from the Indian Navy, Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force, and the Republic of Philippine Navy sailed through the South China Sea, from May 02 to May 08.
The Russian Navy's Northern Fleet has decided to dispose of the Mitrofan Moskalenko large landing ship (LLS), which has been in reserve since 2002, a source in the Russian ship repair industry told TASS.
Northrop Grumman Corporation (NYSE: NOC) has released SeaFIND™ (Sea Fiber Optic Inertial Navigation with Data Distribution), a next-generation maritime inertial navigation system succeeding the company’s MK-39 Mod 3 and 4 series Inertial Navigation System product line.
U.S. defence contractor Boeing has unveiled the “most experienced unmanned surface vehicle on the planet” during annual Sea-Air-Space Exposition, the largest maritime exposition in the United States. The new long-duration ocean robot, commonly known as Wave Glider, is designed and manufactured by Liquid Robotics, a Boeing company.
Russian R&D works scheduled to design and build Russia’s first nuclear aircraft carrier will begin in 2023 under the state armament programme, a Russian shipbuilding industry source told TASS.
On May 07, exercise Formidable Shield 19 started at the MoD's Hebrides Range located on the Western Isles of Scotland. The US 6th Fleet is taking the lead of the exercises, which will end on May 19.
The Gremyashchiy corvette of project 20385 has entered the Gulf of Finland for sea running trials, Captain 1st rank Igor Dygalo, the Russian Navy official spokesman, said.
Russia’s aircraft carrier The Admiral Kuznetsov, currently undergoing repairs and maintenance at the 35th ship repair plant in Murmansk, will be docked in 2020, a source in the shipbuilding industry told TASS.
ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has launched the third of four Type 209/1400mod class submarines for the Egyptian Navy at a ceremony in Kiel, Germany. As part of the ceremony on May 03, Vice Admiral Ahmed Khaled, Commander-in-Chief of the Egyptian Navy, officially named the boat S43. It will undergo sea trials before delivery to Egypt.
The USMC’s VH-92A presidential helicopter replacement could soon receive the go-ahead to enter production, according to a key official.
