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A computer-generated artist’s impression of how the finished vessel, built to Damen’s LST-100 design, could look.

TOTE Wins Experimental $2.2bn VCM Contract To Oversee US Navy LSM Programme

The U.S. Navy has awarded a $2.2 billion Vessel Construction Management (VCM) contract to TOTE Services LLC to oversee the its Medium Landing Ship (LSM) construction programme. Fincantieri’s Marinette Marine

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An artist’s impression of how the completed facility could look.

Saronic Selects Location For Next-Generation Shipyard

Saronic Technologies has targeted 2028 as the opening date for its new Port Alpha shipyard set to be built in Brownsville, Texas. The firm last week revealed the location of

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Saab will be equipping the German Navy’s new frigates MEKO frigates with combat systems and radars.

Saab To Supply Sea Giraffe Radar And CMS For New German Navy Frigates

Saab has won a £670 million contract from TKMS to install radars and combat management systems on the German Navy’s new MEKO frigates. The Swedish firm revealed it has signed

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The TTL USV in the water conducting sea acceptance trials; inset, the Gabler and Flanq trials team in front of the USV in Rostock.

New Torpedo Tube-Launched USV Completes Sea Acceptance Trials

Gabler and Flanq’s torpedo tube-launched uncrewed surface vehicle (TTL USV) for strike and ISR has moved a step closer to operational readiness. The two firms have developed Raider and Ranger,

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The MRLN remote-pilot autonomy system has been integrated onto Ghostworks platforms including its 40-foot vessel Minerva.

Ghostworks Launches Vessel With New Remote Piloting And Autonomy System

U.S. boatbuilder Ghostworks Marine has unveiled a new remote-pilot autonomy system it has developed with partners to convert its craft for a range of uncrewed missions. The Michigan-based shipyard and

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Rheinmetall and Space Norway are teaming up to develop orbital maritime surveillance capabilities.

Norway Links With Rheinmetall To Upgrade Arctic Maritime Awareness From Space

Rheinmetall and Space Norway are teaming up to jointly enhance space-based maritime surveillance capabilities in the Arctic and High North. Rheinmetall AG and Space Norway AS have this week signed

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The Typhoon USV approaching (main picture) and docking (insets) in the well deck of US Navy Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Essex while underway.

First As USV Docks With US Warship While Underway During RIMPAC 2026

An exercise conducted at RIMPAC 2026 has seen a U.S. warship replenished at sea while underway by a Splash Industries uncrewed surface vessel (USV). The Typhoon drone boat this week

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HMS Iron Duke (main picture), sister Type 23 frigate HMS Richmond (inset left) and minehunter HMS Chiddingfold are all being retired, the Royal Navy has revealed.

Royal Navy Confirms Retirement Of Three Warships

Type 23 frigates HMS Iron Duke and HMS Richmond and minehunter HMS Chiddingfold are all to be withdrawn from service, the Royal Navy has confirmed. The news means the RN

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Kuwaiti Naval Forces’ new Al Dorra-class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) will be equipped with Rheinmetall’s Multi Ammunition Softkill Systems (MASS) ship protection system.

New Kuwaiti OPVs To Be Fitted With Rheinmetall MASS Decoy Systems

Kuwaiti Naval Forces’ new Al Dorra-class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) will be equipped with Rheinmetall’s Multi Ammunition Softkill Systems (MASS) ship protection system. The decoy launchers are set to be

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A Trident projectile being launched; submarine-launched ballistic missiles form a key part of the nuclear deterrent for both America and the U.K.

Lockheed Martin Nets $850m Deal To Enhance Trident Missiles

Lockheed Martin has been awarded an $850 million contract to extend the operational life of the nuclear weapons used by British and American ballistic missile submarines (SSBNs). The American firm

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