One of the most important contemporary shipbuilding programs of the Italian Navy started this month, when OCCAR (Organisation conjointe de coopération en matière d’armement) signed the order of contractual performance for the construction of six PPA vessels (Pattugliatori Polivalenti d’Altura…
One of the most ambitious shipbuilding programs of the Russian Navy is facing serious problems due to the war in Eastern Ukraine. According to the industry news site FlotProm.ru, the construction of the second Admiral Gorshkov-class frigate has been stalled,…
A new hard-kill self-defense system against torpedoes will be presented by the Turkish defense industry Aselsan for the first time at the International Defense Industry Fair IDEF-15, in Istanbul Turkey. The new hard-kill self-defense system is called TORK and it…
A new 2nd generation Offshore Patrol Vessel (OPV) was presented by Damen during the annual OPVs and Corvettes Asia Pacific conference in Singapore. The new OPV is highly efficient and versatile and it uses the Axe hull shape design which…