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USNS Carson City (T-EFP 7), a Military Sealift Command Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport ship of the U.S. Navy, departed Rota, Spain, on July 02, as part of the Navy’s second deployment to the Gulf of Guinea this year.
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JULY 2019 news
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USNS Carson City (T-EFP 7), a Military Sealift Command Spearhead-class expeditionary fast transport ship of the U.S. Navy, departed Rota, Spain, on July 02, as part of the Navy’s second deployment to the Gulf of Guinea this year.
The U.S. Navy and its partners in Central America and South America concluded the UNITAS 2019 Pacific exercises, with the U.S. 4th Fleet leading a 13-nations force through anti-submarine warfare (ASW) and anti-surface warfare (ASuW) drills.
Earlier this week, Gibraltar government (a British overseas territory) said it believed that the Grace 1, belonging to Iran, was carrying crude oil to the Baniyas refinery in Syria. Though, this refinery is the property of an entity subject to the European Union (EU) sanctions against Syria. In response to that, Iranian leaders threatened the UK of "retaliatory measures"
Apparently, according to Indian media, Spain has expressed interest in the pre-bidding process for the Indian requirement for an advanced line of conventional submarines. This would extend the contest currently involving France, Germany, Sweden and Russia.
Lockheed Martin Rotary and Mission Systems, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, has been awarded a contract, worth $US 7 million, for combat system ship integration and test on U.S. Navy's new FFG(X) guided-missile frigates.
Today, on July 03, the Romanian authorities announced the selection of Naval Group and its partner Santierul Naval Constanta (SNC) for the programme to build four new Gowind multi-mission corvettes, to modernise the T22 frigates and to create a maintenance centre and a training centre in Romania.
U.S. Navy recently ordered a new Fat Albert Blue Angels logistics aircraft from the UK, in the form of a used C-130J of the Royal Air Force (RAF).
The Amur Shipbuilding Plant in Komsomolsk-on-Amur has laid down two GM corvettes of project 22800 (Karakurt) - the Rzhev and the Udomlya - for the Pacific Fleet, the information support department of the Primorye region said. Both vessels are expected to come into service after 2020.
More than two years after aircraft carrier INS Viraat was decommissioned, it will finally be scrapped, Indian Parliament was informed on Monday, July 01. This comes as efforts to keep it intact by converting it into a museum or other means have not been successful.
The U.S. Navy recently announced a contract award for Boeing Insitu, a subsidiary of Boeing, worth up to $US 390 million for the procurement of RQ-21A Blackjack unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV).
Recently, the Finish Ministry of Defence (MoD) had to admit that final contract negotiations for the procurement of a series of new corvettes, constituting the Squadron 2020, are to take more time than expected. Therefore, the timeline for the delivery of the first vessels of the class might also be revised.
Indian Defence minister Rajnath Singh apparently urged the Indian Navy to increase monitoring Chinese activities in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) and in the Pacific Ocean. This comes as China, in the past months, strengthened its presence in the region, claiming all the South China Sea as part of its sovereignty.
Two Project 12418 missile boats, which are being built at the Vympel shipbuilding plant (an affiliate of Concern Kalashnikov of the Russian State Corporation Rostec) in the interest of the Russian Defense Ministry, will be handed over in 2021-2022, the plant’s representative has told TASS.
Apparently, Japan has commenced research, design and development for the successor to its Soryu-class attack submarines, which entered service in 2009. This new class, based on the Soryu-class is designated as 29SS submarine design.
On July 01, the multinational exercises Sea Breeze 2019 began in the Black Sea. This exercise is led by Ukraine and offers training opportunities designed to enhance the readiness and improve collaboration and interoperability between the Ukrainian Navy and its allies.
Australian companies that supply equipment and services, from scaffolding and pipes to deck coverings and insulation, are now to secure $US 20 million worth contracts through the Hunter-class Frigate Programme.
Raytheon Missile Systems, Tucson, Arizona, is awarded a $US 36,7 million firm-fixed-price contract for fiscal 2019 U.S. Navy and foreign military sales (FMS) to Japan for the procurement of Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Guided Missile Launching System (GMLS) requirements.
After being in service for 35 years, the nuclear attack submarine (SNA) Saphir is the first of six Rubis-class SNAs to be withdrawn from the French Navy by the end of July 2019. This is part of the military programme law 2019-2025 which ensures the renewal of the Rubis-class nuclear attack submarines (SNAs). These SNAs will be replaced by Suffren-class nuclear submarines, of which the first one will be officially launched on July 12 in Cherbourg.
BAE System Technology Solutions and Services; Serco; and Scientific Research Corp., are each awarded a cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-only indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity multiple award contract for logistics, integration, engineering, procurement, fabrication, assembly, test, inspection, zone integration and installation of integrated command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) system of systems capabilities aboard new construction aircraft carrier and large deck amphibious ships, to include refueling and complex overhaul ships.
According to TASS, a pair of Russian submarine programmes should be finished in the coming years as deliveries of the modernized submarines get underway.