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BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair has received two contracts totaling over $170 million for the repairs and modernization of two San Diego-based Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.
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SEPTEMBER 2019 news
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BAE Systems San Diego Ship Repair has received two contracts totaling over $170 million for the repairs and modernization of two San Diego-based Arleigh Burke-class destroyers.
On planned exercise of the Baltic Fleet involving military commands, formations and units, the crews of Project 11540 frigate Yaroslav Mudryi performed missile firing at air and sea targets, the WMD press service reports.
On September 14, 2019, the U.S. Navy has tested new anti-mine unmanned surface vehicle (aboard Military Sealift Command’s expeditionary sea base, USNS Hershel “Woody” Williams (T-ESB 4), into the Chesapeake Bay.
Vigor held a keel-laying ceremony yesterday marking the first milestone in the construction of the Army’s next-generation landing craft, the maneuver support vessel (light) or MSV-L. The prototype is named in honor of SSG Elroy F. Wells, an Army watercraft operator killed in action in 1970 in Vietnam.
The Admiral Nakhimov heavy nuclear cruiser of project 11442M overhauled and upgraded by Sevmash Shipyard is 50 percent ready. It will join the Navy in late 2022, Deputy Defense Minister Alexey Krivoruchko said.
The German Navy should acquire a helicopter carrier, a high-ranking German politician said as he stressed the need for the country to invest more in its defence.
The Belgorod special submarine which is the first carrier of Poseidon craft will sail out for trials in June 2020 and has to be handed over to the Navy in September, Sevmash Shipyard CEO Mikhail Budnichenko said.
Boat launch and recovery specialist Vestdavit has secured an order to supply three new Norwegian Coast Guard vessels with davits equipped for polar conditions, in a project which also calls for the installation of a deck-mounted transfer system for rapid deployment.
Russian Marines and paratroopers operating in the Arctic force of the Northern fleet trained on the Alexander Otrakovsky and the Kondopoga big amphibious assault ships to land on unequipped coast and destroy an adversary subversion group, the fleet said.
In service in the French army since 2018, the MMP is to date the only 5th generation land combat missile of the world to be deployed in military theatres of operations. To meet a wide range of naval requirements, MBDA can offer the same highly versatile MMP missile that is already in operational service with land forces.
The maiden trilateral naval exercise involving India, Singapore and Thailand commenced at Port Blair on Monday. The exercise was announced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during his address at Shangri-La dialogue in June 2018.
It was not until the conflict in Syria that Russia began using submarine-launched cruise missiles in a similar way to the US Navy’s Tomahawk missile; as a long-range surgical strike weapon.
The Royal Canadian Navy is making a port call at Laem Chabang in the eastern province of Chon Buri to strengthen diplomatic ties with Thailand as part of its effort to deepen engagement in Asia-Pacific. HMCS Ottawa, a Halifax-class frigate under the captaincy of Commander Alexander Barlow, docked on Sunday and will remain in port until Thursday.
The Indian Navy’s frigate INS Tarkash is currently visiting Walvis Bay, Namibia, as part of its overseas deployment to Africa, Europe and Russia. INS Tarkash arrived in Walvis Bay on 15 September for a three-day visit in what the Indian Ministry of Defence called a demonstration of India’s warm ties with Namibia and its commitment to enhance operational reach, maritime security and its solidarity with friendly nations.
The new turbine made by Rolls-Royce will be the second MT30 to be delivered to Japan. The two MT30s will be part of eight engines for the 30FFM Batch 1 programme and is anticipated to enter service with the JMSDF in 2022.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) on Thursday 12th September signed a contract for modernising the radar and missile systems on P-15 (Delhi-class) ships with Russian defence firm JSC Rosoboronexport. Delhi-class warships are guided-missile destroyers.
China State Shipbuilding Corporation (CSSC) will build a Type 071E amphibious transport dock ship for export to the Royal Thai Navy, the largest naval ship the nation will have built for a foreign user. Thailand signed the contract with China for the procurement of a Type 071E landing platform dock (LPD) on September 9, 2019.
A memorial ship that honours former LST military vessels, the LST-325, took place at the bicentennial celebration on 13th to 16th September. The LST-325, a World War II-era Navy ship, is now docked on the banks of the Ohio River, Aurora Riverfront Ferry Landing.
Babcock Team 31 has been selected by the UK Ministry of Defence (MOD) as the preferred bidder to deliver its new Type 31 frigates. Led by Babcock, the Aerospace and Defence company, and in partnership with the Thales Group, the T31 general-purpose frigate program will provide the UK Government with a fleet of five ships, at an average production cost of £250 million per ship.
The Philippines naval capability will be boosted further with the arrival of three frigates next year. Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) chief General Benjamin Madrigal made the announcement on Friday, September 6, 2019, when he attended the 13th founding anniversary of the Western Mindanao Command (Westmincom).