Naval Warfare

Ingalls Shipbuilding awarded $155 million contract for USS Zumwalt modernisation

30th August 2023

HII's Ingalls Shipbuilding division has been awarded a $154.8 million contract modification for the modernisation of USS Zumwalt, integrating the Conventional Prompt Strike weapon system for enhanced capabilities.

Land Warfare

Mercury Systems delivers processing hardware for US Army's Lower Tier Air and Missile Defense Sensor radars

11th August 2023

Mercury Systems has completed delivery of processing hardware for the US Army's first six new Patriot radars, being built by Raytheon to provide air and missile defence capabilities against advanced lower-tier threats.

Air Warfare

Northrop Grumman opens new hypersonic propulsion facility

7th August 2023

Northrop Grumman has opened a hypersonic capability centre (HCC) in Elkton, Maryland, to produce advanced propulsion solutions that can power hypersonic missiles beyond Mach 5, the company announced on 3 August.

Air Warfare

HYDIS² consortium hypersonic interceptor project proposed for funding by European Comission

3rd August 2023

The objective of HYDIS² is to study various interceptor concepts and bring to maturity the associated critical technologies to deliver the best counter-hypersonic and anti-ballistic interception solution.

Naval Warfare

France and Italy's Horizon-class destroyers to receive mid-life upgrade

1st August 2023

The Organization for Joint Armament Cooperation (OCCAR) has awarded Naviris and Eurosam a €1.5 billion ($1.65 billion) contract for the mid-life upgrade (MLU) of the French Navy’s Forbin-class destroyers and Italian Navy’s Orrizonte-class destroyers.

Air Warfare

Raytheon and Northrop Grumman awarded follow-on contract for hypersonic systems

18th July 2023

Raytheon and Northrop Grumman have won a follow-on contract from DARPA to advance air-breathing hypersonic systems. The partnership aims to enhance Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept (HAWC) flight vehicles and deliver critical capabilities for warfighters.

Destroyers

Future Destroyers - ASEV [Japan]

Programme Background Requirements Following the Maya-class destroyers, the JMSDF will not just maintain the destroyer units they operate already but will receive two new destroyer platforms. ...

Submarines nuclear, ballistic missile

Husky Class (Project 545)

Development of the Husky class was first reported in 2014 following an initial company-funded design project by Malakhit Design Burea based in St. Petersburg. The ...

Destroyers

Type 83 Future Air Defence System (FADS) [UK]

Programme Background Requirements The Daring-class (Type 45) consists of six ships, although the original plan was to have 12 destroyers. This was cut to eight in ...

Frigates

De Zeven Provinciën-class Replacement [Netherlands]

Programme Background Replacements The De Zeven Provinciën-class air defence and command platforms, which are in service with the Royal Netherlands Navy (RNLN), are expected to be ...

Frigates

F124 Frigate Replacement Programme (F127) [Germany]

Programme Background Requirements The German Navy gave Shephard an update on the programme in October 2021. Germany expects to introduce the next-generation F127 frigate into ...

Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - HALE

MD-22

The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) unveiled the near-space hypersonic technology testbed MD-22 at the Zhuhai Airshow in 2022. Capable of speeds of Mach 7, the ...

Land: air defence radar

55Zh6UE NEBO-UE

The Almaz–Antey 55Zh6UE NEBO-UE  is a VHF mobile, long-range, 3D digital phased array air surveillance radar designed to detect medium targets and large targets such as ...

Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - HALE

DART AE

The DART AE is a developmental UAV developed by Hypersonix Launch Systems and Kratos. The hypersonic UAV is being designed as a technology demonstrator for ...

Land: air defence radar

59N6-TE

The 59N6-TE is a 3D mobile radar developed and produced by the JSC Federal Research and Production Centre Nizhniy Novgorod Research Institute of Radio Engineering ...

Naval guns

Palma CIWS

Palma CIWS (Close-In Weapon System) is a Russian-developed system that can protect vessels against anti-ship missiles, anti-radar missiles, guided aerial bombs, aircraft, helicopters and small high-speed ...

Destroyers

Zumwalt Class

The DDG 1000 Zumwalt-class is formed by a series of next-generation multi-role destroyers 21st century. They were designed to host the latest in sensors and weapons ...

Destroyers

Udaloy I Class (Project 1155)

The Udaloy class destroyers were built in the 1980s for Russia by Zhdanov (now Severnaya Verf) and Yantar shipyards under the Project 1155 programme as specialised anti-submarine ...

Military UAS - fixed-wing, Military UAS - HALE

RQ-4 Global Hawk

The Global Hawk is a HALE UAV manufactured by General Atomics (GA-ASI).  Primarily designed to carry ISTAR payloads, the platform has accumulated more than 200,000 ...

Corvettes

Gremyashchy Class (Project 20385)

The Gremyashchy-class (Project 20385) corvette is an advanced variant of the Streregushchy class (Project 20380) designed by Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau for the Russian Federation ...

Corvettes

Tuo Chiang Class

The Tuo Chiang class is expected to eventually consist of a total of 12 new corvettes for Taiwan's Republic of China Navy (ROCN), built under the ...

Destroyers

Renhai Class (Type 055)

The Type 055 destroyer, also known as the Renhai-class, is one of the largest class of ships in China’s PLAN. The vessel has been classed ...

Cruisers

Kirov Class (Project 1144)

Russia’s four Kirov-class (Project 1144) battlecruisers were built in the 1970s under Project 1174 Orlan and are often classed as guided missile cruisers. A class ...

Submarines: nuclear, attack

Virginia-class

The USN’s Virginia-class SSNs are the foundation of US naval power. Also known as the SSN 774 class, these boats are replacing the old Los Angeles-class ...

Frigates

Admiral Gorshkov (Project 22350)

The Admiral Gorshkov-class frigates for the Russian Navy are being built under the long-running Project 22350 programme. It was approved in 2003 for a class ...