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NAVAL NEWS JANUARY 2021
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According to a contract published by the United States Department of Defense on January 11, 2021, Raytheon Missiles and Defense, Tucson, Arizona, is awarded an $8,520,414 cost-type undefinitized contract for procurement of long lead material in support of Standard Missile-2 (SM-2) Foreign Military Sales (FMS) production requirements to include all up rounds, instrumental kits, engineering services and spares.
According to information published by the Russian press agency TASS on January 12, 2021, the Black Sea Fleet’s Project 11356 frigate Admiral Grigorovich (NATO reporting name: Krivak V) operating as part of the Russian Navy’s permanent formation deployed in the Mediterranean Sea has practiced air defense exercise, the Russian Defense Ministry’s press office said.
According to information published by the defenceturk.net website, Turkish company Aselsan has completed factory acceptance test of its PIRI (Panoramic Infrared Imaging) naval Infrared Search and Tracking system designed to be mounted on the Multi-Purpose Amphibious Assault Ship TCG ANADOLU for Turkish Navy.
According to pictures released by the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) on January 6, 2021, U.S. Army Aviation Battalion-Japan has conducted deck landing qualifications with U.S. Navy USS Ashland (LSD-48) Whidbey Island-class dock landing ship.
According to a press release published on January 11, 2021, Duqm Naval Dockyard (DND), the Joint Venture between Babcock International and the Oman Drydock Company (ODC), has successfully completed a four week fleet time support program (FTSP) for the UK Royal Navy frigate HMS Montrose.
According to a press release published on January 11, 2021, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, a Raytheon Technologies business, was awarded a $90,000,000 contract by the U.S. Navy for 23 Submarine High-Data Rate antenna systems. Contracted in 2020, the work is expected to be completed on the new antennas by January 2024.
According to news published by the Daily Sabah website on January 11, 2021, Turkish naval forces will receive this year new multipurpose amphibious assault ship TCG Anadolu, as well as the training ship Ufuk and the I Class Istanbul frigate, the first frigate manufactured under the MILGEM, national warship program of Turkey.
According to information published on January 11, 2021, this year, the U.S. Navy will field the first acquisition program to deploy the High Energy Laser with Integrated Optical-dazzler and Surveillance, or HELIOS, a laser weapon system with high-energy fiber lasers for permanent fielding by the U.S. Department of Defense.
According to information published by the Russian press agency TASS on January 11, 2021, the Russian naval defense industry has supplied eight warships and two submarines to the Russian Navy in 2020.
According to a press release published on January 7, 2021, Babcock International, the Aerospace and Defence Company, is pleased to announce a further year contract extension has been agreed to continue in-service support to the Harpoon Missile System for the British Royal Navy.
The Russian Defense Ministry has decided to keep the Admiral Ushakov destroyer of project 956 of the Northern fleet operational for several more years. It is to be back from an overhaul in late 2021. The warship encountered technical problems in 2018 and stopped operations. There were plans to scrap it, the Izvestia daily writes.
Elbit Systems announced on January 11 that its subsidiary Elbit Systems UK was awarded a contract valued at approximately $166 million (approximately £123 million) from the UK Ministry of Defence for the Royal Navy Future Naval Training Program as part of the Fisher consortium led by Capita plc. The contract will be performed over a 12-year period.
According to information published by Huntington Ingalls Industries on January 8, 2021, Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi, recently accomplished a major construction milestone on the U.S. Navy amphibious transport dock of USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28).
According to pictures released by the U.S. Navy on January 9, 2021, F-35B Lightning II fighter aircraft assigned to the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit have conducted flight operations from the amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6).
According to a statement published by the Brazilian Navy on January 6, 2021, the Brazilian Navy has signed a contract with the Brazilian company Estaleiro Bibi Eireli for the acquisition of one hospital ship.
According to a Tweet published by Navantia on January 8, 2021, during a visit to San Fernando shipyard, the Spanish Minister of Finance, María Jesús Montero has announced that Spanish company Navantia will build a patrol boat for the Moroccan Navy.
According to information released by the British Navy on January 8, 2021, HMS Spey Batch 2 River-class offshore patrol vessel (OPV) has formally joined the British Royal Navy. She was delivered to Portsmouth Naval Base in October from BAE Systems’ shipyards on the Clyde for the final stages of construction before Spey’s crew took custody of January 7, 2020, afternoon.
According to a statement published by the Colombian Navy on January 6, 2021, the Pohang-class missile corvette donates by South Korea to Colombia was officially christened ARC Almirante Tono and commissioned by the Colombian navy.
According to information published on January 6, 2021, the Malaysian Maritime Enforcement Agency Tanjung Manis zone has received the Semilang-class patrol boat KM Semilang (2161).
According to information published by PT Pal Indonesia on January 7, 2021, the company has launched Hospital Assistance Ship (BRS) Sudirohusodo-class ordered by the Indonesian Navy. The ship was officially named dr. Wahidin Sudirohusodo (991).
