NAVAL NEWS AUGUST 2022

Navy Forces Naval Maritime Defense Security Industry


According to information published by Portal Stoczniowy on August 18, 2022, at the Remontowa Shipbuilding shipyard in Gdansk, acceptance documents were signed for the second Kormoran II-type minehunter, the future ORP Albatros. This is the second ship in a series of modern mine destroyers being built for the Polish Navy by the country's shipbuilding industry.

According to information published by Tass on August 17, 2022, some Southeast Asian countries have shown interest in upgrading their naval equipment and talks on supplies and licensed production of surface ships are also in progress, Head of the Federal Service for Military-Technical Cooperation Dmitry Shugayev told at the Army 2022 international military-technical forum.

According to information published by the Philippines News Agency on August 12, 2022, the Philippine Navy (PN)'s first missile frigate, BRP Jose Rizal (FF-150), is now qualified to land and receive on its flight deck the AgustaWestland AW-159 "Wildcat" helicopter, which is the ship's partner in locating and hunting down hostile submarines.

According to a PR published by STM on July 13, 2022, Turkish Naval Forces Command has taken new deliveries of the "Torpedo Section" – the bow section of the submarine that houses the torpedo tubes which have been produced for the first time in Türkiye based on national means with STM engineering and coordination. The two “Section 50s” produced for Reis-class submarines will be integrated into TCG AYDINREİS and TCG SEYDİALİREİS.

According to information published by the U.S. DoD on August 10, 2022, a U.S. Navy team led by NUWC Division Newport staff demonstrated an end-to-end intelligence preparation of the operational environment (IPOE) mission with the Snakehead large displacement unmanned undersea vehicle (LDUUV) prototype at the Narragansett Bay Test Facility.

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