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DECEMBER 2019 news
Naval Forces, Defense Industry, Navy Technology, Maritime Security |
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The Royal Australian Navy’s premier international mine countermeasure exercise recently came to an end at Fleet Base West, Rockingham in Western Australia. Exercise DUGONG 19, which also featured navies from the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and New Zealand, plays a major role in enhancing interoperability between participating nations in all facets of maritime mine warfare.
In November the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) announced that it had performed a 37-day trial in the South China Sea with the indigenously developed Haijing 2000 (Sea Whale 2000) AUV and covered a total distance of approximately 2,000 kilometres.
General Dynamics Electric Boat Corp. (GDEB), Groton, Connecticut, is awarded a $22,209,893,409 fixed-price-incentive, multi-year modification to previously-awarded contract N00024-17-C-2100 for construction of nine Virginia-class submarines, eight with Virginia Payload Module (VPM), from fiscal 2019 to fiscal 2023.
The Dutch government has announced on 29th November that it would contribute De Ruyter (F804) frigate to the European-led mission in the Strait of Hormuz (EMASOH) from the end of January to the end of June amid regional tension with Iran.
The defence ministry on Thursday approved the procurement of 6 Boeing P8I maritime patrol aircraft, indigenous development of airborne warning and control systems (AWACS) aircraft and other military platforms at a cost of $3.1-billion.
Australian suppliers Berendsen Fluid Power and H.H Machine Tools Australia (H&H) will partner with two international companies to deliver and sustain the Medium Capacity Press, High Capacity Press and Large Capacity Milling Machines (LCMM) for the Attack Class submarines. The contracts are the largest signed by Naval Group Australia to date and will see Australian industry share in around $20m worth of work.
Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems is awarded a $74.7 million contract for design agent engineering services for networks and network user systems on operational U.S. Navy landing platform/dock (LPD)-17 San Antonio-class amphibious transport dock ships.
On November 30, 2019, Iran’s Navy unveiled a vertical takeoff naval drone with the capability to fly horizontally and land on water, dubbed Pelican-2, on Saturday morning in a ceremony where a homegrown Inertial Navigation System (INS) was also put on display.
