December 2017 News - Naval Forces, Defense Industry, Navy Technology, Maritime Security
 
 

Indra will supply TKMS with SATCOM terminals to enhance stealth capacities of two submarines
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Indra will supply ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), one of the world's biggest shipbuilders, with new satellite communications systems for two submarines for the export market. The company will deliver a Ku band system mounted on a three-axis stabilized platform that ensures that vessels will remain connected even in the most difficult sea states. It is a well proven system used by fleets all over the world which Indra has already delivered to several navies.
 

French Navy Rafale M Fighters to Train with a US Navy Aircraft Carrier in April 2018
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French Navy (Marine Nationale) Rafale M fighters will fly to the United States in April 2018 in order to conduct training and carrier qualifications from a U.S. Navy aircraft carrier. The announcement came when the U.S Navy Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. John Richardson met his French counterpart, Chief of Staff of the French Navy (CEMM) Adm. Christophe Prazuck on December 6th in Paris.
 

Boustead & Royal Malaysian Navy Hold Keel Laying Ceremony for 3rd Gowind Frigate LCS - SGPV
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DCNS GOWIND LCS SGPV Malaysia TLDM
Boustead Heavy Industries Corporation Berhad (BHIC) and the Royal Malaysian Navy (RMN or Tentera Laut DiRaja Malaysia; TLDM) held today the keel laying ceremony of the third Gowind frigate Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) as part of the Second Generation Patrol Vessel (SGPV) program.
 

U.S. Navy Commissions Fifth Freedom-class Littoral Combat Ship USS Little Rock (LCS 9)
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USS Little Rock US Navy LCS
The U.S. Navy commissioned USS Little Rock (LCS 9) –– the nation's fifth Freedom-variant Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) –– on the Buffalo River on Dec. 16. This milestone officially places the ship, which was designed and built by Lockheed Martin and Fincantieri Marinette Marine into active service.
 

Chinese Shipyard Launched the 29th Type 054A Frigate for the PLAN
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Chinese Shipyard Launched the 29th Type 054A Frigate for the PLAN 1
Our colleagues from East Pendulum are reporting that the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard of the Chinese naval group CSSC launched a Type 054A frigate for People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN or Chinese Navy) on December 16 2017. This is the 15th frigate of this class (designated Jiangkai II-class by NATO) built in this shipyard, located near Shanghai in Eastern China, and the 29th overall in the series. The 28th Type 054A was launched less than 4 months ago, showing once again the fast pace of China's naval shipbuilding industry.
 

Navantia, Saab and CEA Join Forces for Canada's CSC Frigate Program
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A Navantia-led team has submitted its tender response for the Canadian Surface Combatant (CSC) program, with global defence and security company Saab as the Combat Systems Integrator (CSI) and CEA Technologies providing key elements of the proposed solution.
 

USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) Completes First F-35C Carrier Qualification
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USS Abraham Lincoln CVN 72 Completes First F 35C Carrier Qualification 1
The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN 72) successfully completed Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS) Carrier Qualifications for the F-35C Lightning II program, carrier qualifying the first nine fleet aviators in the new aircraft, while underway Dec. 7-11.
 

Brown-water warships to become priority for Russian navy development - part 2
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Russia is losing perspectives as a global sea power. Such conclusions can be drawn from official Defense Ministry statements about navy development priorities in the coming ten years. The so-called brown-water or inner maritime zone warships are to become a priority, expert Alexander Shishkin writes in the Vzglyad business daily.
 

Raytheon Completes CEC Design & Testing for 1st Australian Air Warfare Destroyer HMAS Hobart
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First Air Warfare Destroyer HMAS Hobart Handed Over to Royal Australian Navy
Raytheon Company has completed design, development and testing of its Cooperative Engagement Capability system, which will be certified by the U.S. Navy for the system’s first international installation. Onboard the Royal Australian Navy’s HMAS Hobart, CEC will expand the ship’s battlespace awareness by sharing sensor data among a network of other Australian and allied CEC-equipped ships and aircraft.
 

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