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August 2020 news
Naval Forces, Defense Industry, Navy Technology, Maritime Security |
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Paramount Maritime, a Paramount Group company, has successfully launched the first of three next-generation Survey Motor Boats (SMBs) to the South African Navy in continued support of its programmes to enhance the capabilities and infrastructure of the South African Navy Hydrographic Office (SANHO).
iXblue’s inertial navigation systems and gyrocompasses have recently been chosen to equip the new Royal Australian Navy’s SEA1180 Offshore Patrol Vessels (OPV).
On August 24 2020, the harbour protection exercise started at three different locations in the inner port of Ostend. This exercise is the first part of a diptych of Exercise SANDY COAST 2020, an international mine action exercise in Belgian waters.
The Paket-E/NK small antisubmarine antitorpedo system will be upgraded, CEO of the Region Scientific and Production Enterprise Igor Krylov told TASS at the Army 2020 international military and technical forum.
According to the Australian Ministry of Defence, new autonomous technologies will revolutionise mine clearance capability in operations close to shore through a new five-year, $15 million research and development project.
The future LCS Minneapolis-St. Paul, the U.S. Navy's newest littoral combat ship, completed acceptance trials on Lake Michigan, the Navy said Monday.
A team of pilots and engineers from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (HX) 21 based at Naval Air Station Patuxent River recently completed a crucial series of sea trials of the CH-53K King Stallion that not only provided them with valuable developmental test information about the aircraft but could change the way the squadron conducts similar tests in the future.
The Pakistan Navy said Sunday that Chinese state-owned Hudong Zhonghua Shipyard in Shanghai held the launching ceremony for the Type-054A/P frigate, with top officials from the service in attendance.
Huntington Ingalls Industries revealed that its Ingalls Shipbuilding division met the requirements for the electronic systems light-off of the US Navy’s amphibious transport dock Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28).
U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer USS Chung-Hoon (DDG 93) conducted a gunnery exercise with the Royal Australian Navy frigate HMAS Stuart (FFH 153) August 19 during Exercise Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) 2020.
According to a Tweet released by the Portuguese Navy on August 20, 2020, NRP Setúbal P363, a Viana do Castelo class offshore patrol vessel from the Portuguese navy participate at the Search and Rescue maritime exercise SAREX with EH-101 helicopter from the Portuguese Air Force near the island of Porto Santo.
According to information released by the Chinese MoD (Ministry of Defense) website on August 21, 2020, the Chinese Army aviation brigade has conducted deck-landing training, fuel and ammunition replenishment and emergency repair on a civilian semi-submersible vessel with WZ-19 helicopter, in a bid to test support capabilities.
According to information released by the Royal British Navy on August 21, 2020, the new Offshore Patrol Vessel HMS Trent P224 of the British Navy is now in the Mediterranean with NATO on maritime security operations having sailed from Portsmouth after her commissioning earlier this month.
Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force ship JS Ise (DDH 182) Hyūga-class helicopter destroyer is deployed near the coast of Hawaii during the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise, the world's largest international maritime warfare exercise. RIMPAC is held biennially during June and July of even-numbered years from Honolulu, Hawaii.
According to information published by the British Royal Navy on August 21, 2020, British Navy 2nd Maritime Air Wing has been formally commissioned at RAF Shawbury in Shropshire to oversee the training of Naval, RAF and Army Air Corps helicopter pilots – turning men and women with a basic knowledge of flight into skilled aviators ready to handle front-line machines.
According to information published by the Russian press agency TASS on August 21, 2020, the Russian defense ministry has announced that the Baltic Fleet’s Project 21631 Buyan-M class corvette Zelyony Dol (NATO reporting name: Buyan-M class) has arrived at the Northern Fleet’s main base in Severomorsk in northwest Russia.
From August 20 to September 11, 2020, several NATO units, including the Standing NATO Mine Action Group (SNMCMG-1), will once again participate in an international mine action exercise. The international coordination staff is headed by the Admiralty Benelux (ABNL). This is a unique collaboration between the Belgian Navy and the Royal Dutch Navy.
It is reported that on August 19, 2020, a new sea minesweeper Yakov Balyaev of project 12700 arrived in Murmansk, making the transition by tug from the Baltic to its permanent base in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky, where factory sea trials and state tests will be carried out.
Britain’s newest warship is ready for front-line duties – just five months after the first sailors stepped aboard HMS Tamar. In what is thought to be the fastest generation of a warship in peacetime, the Portsmouth-based ship has gone from incomplete lifeless hulk at the beginning of 2020 into a vessel ready to deploy around the globe by August.
According to a press release published by Intermarine, on July 2020 Intermarine Italian shipyard, a subsidiary of the Immsi S.p.A. industrial group (IMS.MI), has delivered a minesweeper to a leading navy active in the Mediterranean. The vessel is the second unit of a larger order and complies with the highest quality standards. Citing the Twitter account of Fatto in Italia, the ship is the El Kasseh 2 for the Algerian Navy.
