US Coast Guard icebreakers - The US Coast Guard is ordering new icebreakers in Finland. The ships are intended to strengthen the US presence in the Arctic in the short term and close existing capability gaps....
Saildrone missile armament - The Saildrone is armed with missiles for the first time. Lockheed Martin is developing a new version of the maritime drone with an integrated FK launch silo....
BRICS naval manoeuvre South Africa "Will for Peace 2026" Simon's Town South Africa, China Russia Iran naval exercise, international naval exercise Africa, geopolitics BRICS military, naval manoeuvre South Africa...
Arrowhead 140 Indonesia: Indonesia is building two more frigates based on the British Arrowhead 140 design. The Merah Putih class is being built at PT PAL in Surabaya and will strengthen the navy in the Indo-Pacific....
HMS Lancaster Bahrain decommissioned: The British frigate HMS Lancaster (Type 23) was decommissioned after 34 years of service at the HMS Jufair base in Bahrain....
P-8A Poseidon Singapore plans to purchase four Boeing P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft through a US FMS programme....
Chinese Navy - „Fujian“ flat-deck aircraft carrier undergoing sea trials - next step towards global carrier fleet...
China's Louhe frigates: The units could be test platforms for new sensor and weapons systems - or the PLA Navy's next standard class....

The new Dutch Combat Support Ship (CSS) "Den Helder" (179 metres, 22,400 tonnes) has officially been in royal service since mid-October. It is the first and probably only ship of this class to be built by Damen Shipyards in Galati/Romania and equipped in the Netherlands. She is intended to fill the logistical gap...

At the beginning of October, India celebrated the resurrection of the small submarine hunter, as it was mainly known from the Baltic Sea during the Cold War, with the commissioning of "Androth", the second "Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow-Water Craft" (ASW-SWC), in Visakhapatnam. Previously planned with eight units, the corvette-sized Arnala class (78 metres, 900 tonnes) is intended to use the shallow...

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