Finland launched the third of its four new Pohjanmaa-class corvettes at Rauma on Oct. 29, putting three of the Finnish Navy’s largest warships in decades in the water, the Finnish Navy said. The ship was moved out of the construction hall at the Rauma Marine Constructions shipyard on Finland’s west coast, where fitting out will […]

Lockheed Martin will upgrade the operating systems running the F-35 Lightning II reprogramming laboratories, which build the threat data the fighter needs for combat missions, under a $43.7 million contract modification the U.S. Navy announced on Oct. 28. Eighty percent of the work will take place in Eglin, Florida, and the remaining 20% in Fort […]

The U.S. Navy has awarded South Carolina-based Integer Technologies a $23.1 million contract to research how zero trust cybersecurity can protect the electrical power systems that run its warships, without slowing the split-second controls those systems depend on. The Office of Naval Research awarded the cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for a program called Threat Resilient Integrated Defense […]

Norway’s Kongsberg ended the third quarter of 2026 with a record order backlog of NOK 174.2 billion (about $18.8 billion), after taking in NOK 23.3 billion (about $2.5 billion) in new orders, more than double the NOK 9.5 billion it booked in the same quarter last year. The defense group reported on Oct. 29 that […]

Britain will lead development of three new sensor and effects packages for underwater drones under the AUKUS security partnership with the United States and Australia, with the systems due to be available across all three nations’ uncrewed underwater fleets from 2027, the UK Ministry of Defence said on Oct. 27. The three payloads are a […]

Singapore-based BeeX used its ALPHA underwater drone to place explosive charges on a moored sea mine and a swinging steel target and then destroy both during a closed-door mine countermeasures demonstration in the United Kingdom, the company said on Oct. 27. The one-day event, held on Sept. 17 and hosted by British defense consultancy Copper […]

BAE Systems has completed the first live-fire test of its Adaptable Deck Launcher, a deck-mounted missile launcher that lets U.S. Navy and allied ships carry more Evolved SeaSparrow air defense missiles and reload them at sea with standard shipboard equipment. The company announced the test on Oct. 27 from China Lake, California, home of the […]

Lockheed Martin will update the radar warning and electronic support software on Canada’s CH-148 Cyclone maritime helicopters under a $9.8 million contract awarded through the U.S. Navy, with work running until October 2030. Naval Air Systems Command placed the contract with Lockheed’s Owego, New York, operation on behalf of the Canadian government, which is paying […]

The U.S. Navy has added $13.3 million and 50,000 labor hours to a Lockheed Martin order covering integration of the F-35’s upgraded F135 engine core and the move of a new power and cooling system for the fighter into preliminary design. Naval Air Systems Command announced the cost-plus-fixed-fee, level-of-effort modification on Oct. 27, definitizing an […]

X-Bow Systems will build the solid rocket booster that launches CoAspire’s ground-based cruise missile under the U.S. Navy’s CHAOS program, an effort to give allied nations a low-cost weapon for striking ships and land targets. The Albuquerque, New Mexico, company said Tuesday that CoAspire, the prime contractor, selected it to develop and produce the ground-launched […]

Saronic Technologies’ Corsair drone boats, the same type the U.S. military used to strike an Iranian naval base in July, have operated alongside forces from the United States, the United Kingdom and Australia at Maritime Big Play Pacific, the AUKUS partners’ largest demonstration of uncrewed and autonomous technology, held in San Diego this October. The […]

The U.S. Navy attack submarine USS Colorado (SSN 788) arrived at HMAS Stirling in Western Australia on Oct. 27 to begin a scheduled monthlong maintenance period. For the first time, Australian civilian technicians will carry out routine maintenance on a Virginia-class submarine in Western Australia, working alongside American shipyard specialists, with the U.K. Royal Navy […]

U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps teams have shown Marine air-defense operators a prototype dashboard that brings threat and resource data into one screen. It is meant to help a regional commander see what is in the air and what defenses are available to respond, and it was first demonstrated on Oct. 5 during the […]

Britain’s Royal Navy could be left with just one frigate available for operations at any given time next year, as two more of its five remaining Type 23 frigates are expected to be declared unseaworthy within months, leaving three ships in service in 2027 with one at sea, one in training and one in maintenance, […]

Britain’s Ministry of Defence has opened a tender to buy Skydio X10D small drones, the American-made reconnaissance quadcopter already ordered by the thousands by the U.S. Army, with an estimated budget of £120,000 (about $160,700) excluding VAT, according to a notice on the Defence Sourcing Portal. The tender was issued by Navy Commercial, the Royal […]

The U.S. Navy destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG 91) has entered General Dynamics NASSCO’s shipyard in San Diego for a second depot modernization period that will make it the first warship to receive the Raytheon AN/SPY-6(V)4 radar, the Navy’s Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Maritime said. The availability will also make Pinckney the first ship fitted with […]

Russia’s Amur Shipbuilding Plant has launched the multipurpose corvette Grozny, the fifth Project 20380 warship it has built for the Russian Navy’s Pacific Fleet, the fleet’s press service said. The ceremony took place on Oct. 23 in Komsomolsk-on-Amur, in Russia’s Far East, more than five years after the ship was laid down on Aug. 23, […]

China’s Liaoning carrier group has carried out its second far-seas training deployment to the Western Pacific this year, a decade after the carrier’s first such voyage in 2016, Chinese state broadcaster CCTV reported on Oct. 24, describing the ship’s path over those 10 years as a three-step climb from training ship to combat ship to […]

China’s 48th naval escort task force returned to a military port in Qingdao on Oct. 23 after 378 days away, the longest deployment in the history of the Chinese navy’s anti-piracy missions in the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somalia, China’s Ministry of National Defense said. The task force, made up of the […]

The U.S. Navy has added $2.4 billion to Fluor Marine Propulsion’s contract to run naval nuclear propulsion work at the Naval Nuclear Laboratory, the network of government labs that designs and supports the reactors powering every U.S. Navy submarine and aircraft carrier. Naval Sea Systems Command awarded the $2,409,077,590 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification on Sept. 24, 2026, […]