The U.K. government last week announced the Royal Navy will outfit 11 ships with the Norwegian Kongsberg Naval Strike Missile (NSM). The Defense Ministry said the NSMs are due to replace Harpoon surface-to-surface missiles on 11 Type 23 frigates and Type 45 destroyers in a collaboration agreement ...
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The U.S. 5th Fleet has started a three-week long unmanned and artificial intelligence integration event in the Middle East, dubbed Digital Horizon, with 15 unmanned systems and 17 industry partners. The event began on Nov. 23 and is based in Bahrain. The Navy boasted it will employ several new ...
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency (MDA), U.S. Navy and Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) on Monday announced the first successful missile defense test firing of Standard Missile-3 missiles from Japanese destroyers off the coast of Hawaii. The testing occurred over a two-week event with two ...
The Israeli government and Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. recently conducted an interception test of a naval version of the Iron Dome air defense system. The company and Israeli government announced the successful test on Nov. 16. The naval version of the system, dubbed the C-DOME, was ...
This week the U.K. government awarded BAE Systems a $5 billion contract to build a second group of five more Type 26 frigates for the Royal Navy. Speaking in Indonesia during a G20 meeting on Nov. 14, U.K. Prime Minister Rishi Sunak first announced the award, connecting the frigate award to Russia†...
The U.S. Navy is sharing insights from Project Overmatch with some allies and partners to help them all potentially fight together in the future. “So some of our allies and partners, I’m not going to mention which ones, but those that we see a higher likelihood of interoperability in the ...