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NAVAL NEWS December 2021
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According to a press release published by Navantia on December 13, 2021, a consortium led by Fincantieri, Naval Group, and Navantia and coordinated by Naviris submitted on December 9th an industrial proposal related to the MMPC call of the European Defence Fund (EDF).
According to information published by iXblue on December 13, 2021, the firm has been selected by the Finnish Navy to provide Phins Series Inertial Navigation Systems (INS) and Netans Data Distribution Units (DDU) as part of the Finnish Navy’s SQUADRON 2020 Project.
According to information published by Yonhap News Agency on November 10, 2021, South Korea has successfully conducted key performance tests of the homegrown ship-based guided-missile, Haegung, ahead of its deployment next year, the state-run defense quality assessment agency and Navy officials.
According to a tweet published by Commanding officer Nicolas Van Damme on December 13, 2021, the new oceanographic research vessel Belgica to join the Belgian Navy.
According to information published by Press TV on December 12, 2021, the Iranian Navy's first domestically-built intelligence vessel Shiraz has reached its final stages of construction.
According to information published by the Times of Oman on December 13, 2021, the Royal Navy of Oman is participating with PNS Tughril of the naval forces of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan in the joint naval exercise (Al Thamar Al Tayeb), which will be carried out in Pakistani territorial waters from December 13 to 18.
Despite the announcement by the United States on December 10, 2021, regarding the approval of a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Greece of Multi-Mission Surface Combatant (MMSC) ships, it was announced that Greece has already signed an agreement with France for the purchase of three French-made FDI HN or Belharra-class frigates.
According to information published by the United States Department of Defense on December 10, 2021, the U.S. State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Greece of four MEKO Hydra-Class Frigates Modernization and related equipment for an estimated cost of $2.5 billion.
According to information published by the United States Department of Defense on December 10, 2021, the U.S. State Department has made a determination approving a possible Foreign Military Sale to the Government of Greece of four Multi-Mission Surface Combatant (MMSC) ships and related equipment for an estimated cost of $6.9 billion.
According to information published by the Royal Navy on December 9, 2021, the HMS Queen Elizabeth aircraft carrier returned home to Portsmouth after her maiden operational deployment which took the nation’s flagship to the Indo-Pacific and back.
According to information published by Tass on December 9, 2021, the Imperator Alexander III seventh SSBN of Borey-A-class project 955A built by Sevmash Shipyard will join the Russian Navy in 2023, a shipbuilding source told.
According to information published by Bell Textron on December 8, 2021, the company announced the successful sale and delivery of two Bell 505 helicopters to the Indonesian Navy. The newly acquired helicopters will be utilized as basic helicopter trainers.
According to information published by OCEA on December 9, 2021, the launching ceremony of the BG201, the first OCEA FPB 98 MKI of a fleet of twenty units, took place at the OCEA site in Les Sables d’Olonne.
According to a tweet published by the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force on December 10, 2021, Mitsubishi Heavy Industries held at Nagasaki Works naming and launch ceremony for the newest FFM, the 4th MOGAMI class, Mikuma. Her name comes from "Mikuma River" at Oita prefecture, Kyusyu.
According to information published by Tass on December 8, 2021, the Russian Project 20380 corvette Rezky built for the Pacific fleet began mooring trials in Vladivostok.
According to information published by the U.S. Department of Defense on December 8, 2021, Independence-variant littoral combat ship USS Charleston (LCS 18) and Timor-Leste Defense Force (F-FDTL) partnered in the 27th annual Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) maritime exercise in the territorial waters surrounding Port Hera.
According to a press release published by the Royal Navy on December 8, 2021, a cutting-edge autonomous system able to detect modern sea mine threats and reduce risk to life has been delivered to the Royal Navy.
According to a tweet published by Pakistan Strategic Forum on December 9, 2021, Pakistan Navy holds a steel cutting ceremony of the 5th Hangor class (Type 039B) submarine PN Hangor at Karachi Shipyard.
According to information published by NVL Group on December 3, 2021, the German firm, formerly Lürssen Defence, and its local shipyard partner MTG Dolphin, joined representatives of the contracting authority to launch the construction of the first of two Multipurpose Modular Patrol Vessels (MMPV) for the Bulgarian Navy in Varna, Bulgaria.
According to information published by the U.S Department of Defense on December 8, 2021, the US. Navy commissions the future USS Daniel Inouye (DDG 118), an Arleigh Burke-class destroyer, during a ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickham.
