The Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP), the US Indo-Pacific Command, the Australian Defence Force, and the Japan Self-Defence Forces successfully conducted a Multilateral Maritime Cooperative Activity (MMCA) in the waters west of the Philippines on Sunday, April 7, the AFP said in a statement....
Austal Australia refers to media on Monday, April 1, and confirms it has received an unsolicited, conditional, and non-binding indicative proposal from South Korean shipbuilder Hanwha Ocean to acquire Austal by way of a scheme of arrangement. Under the indicative proposal, Austal shareholders would receive AU$2.825 (US$1.84) cash per Austal share. Hanwha’s indicative proposal is […]
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South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has been selected as the preferred bidder for the local construction and co-production of four vessels slated for the Peruvian Navy. The contract covers the construction of a frigate, an offshore patrol vessel (OPV), and two landing craft....
The Indonesian Ministry of Defence and Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri have entered into an agreement regarding the supply of two patrol ships in a series. The vessels will be variants of the 143-metre multi-purpose offshore patrol vessels (Pattugliatore Polivalente d’Altura; PPA) that Fincantieri is building for the Italian Navy. Duties will include maritime security patrols, search […]
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The Royal Navy has launched an investigation into a fire incident that occurred aboard the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth while it was moored at a naval base in Scotland earlier this month. The incident occurred at around 23:50 local time on March 8 while the carrier was tied alongside an...
South Korean shipbuilder HD Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) has laid the keel of a new guided-missile destroyer ordered by the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN). The vessel will be the second unit of three ships under Batch II of the ROKN’s Sejong the Great-class destroyers. The future ROKS Jeongjo the...
Dearsan Shipyard of Turkey has been awarded a contract for the design and construction of two fast attack craft in a series for the Qatari Emiri Navy. The vessels will each have a length of 50 metres and will be equipped for surface warfare, air defence, and asymmetric warfare. Armament on each...
The Danish Ministry of Defence has confirmed that a Royal Danish Navy frigate successfully shot down four unmanned aerial vehicles launched by Yemen’s Houthi rebel group against commercial and coalition naval ships in the southern Red Sea on Saturday, March 9. At around 04:00 local time on...
The Royal Saudi Naval Forces (RSNF) has taken delivery of the final one of five Avante 2200 corvettes built by Spanish shipyard Navantia. Unayzah and its four earlier Al-Jubail-class sisters are variants of Navantia’s Avante 2000 series of corvettes, which were developed primarily for the export...
The Republic of Fiji Navy recently took delivery of a new Guardian-class patrol boat built by Austal Australia. RFNS Puamau was acquired by the Australian government on behalf of the government of Fiji. It is the second Guardian-class boat to be handed over to the Republic of Fiji Navy under the...