The EU’s largest defence research project OCEAN2020 was tested in the Mediterranean Sea to enhance maritime situational awareness. Defence research project OCEAN2020 (Open Cooperation for European mAritime awareNess) aims to bring together technical maritime specialities including orienting, deciding and acting operational tasks and observing. The EDA demonstration involved naval units from ...
Leonardo has proven the submarine-hunting capabilities of its new ULISSES acoustic sensor system in a live sea trial off the coast of Italy, meaning that development is on track for completion by the end of 2019. Production of the ULISSES system will now take place in 2020 for deliveries the same ...
HMS Prince of Wales, the second of two aircraft carriers designed and constructed for the Royal Navy, has sailed into her home port of Portsmouth Naval Base for the first time. This marks an important and proud milestone for everyone who has worked on the Queen Elizabeth Class programme across the ...
Sir John Parker has responded to the implementation of the National Shipbuilding Strategy following his report on Naval shipbuilding. The National Shipbuilding Strategy was the Government’s response to Sir John’s 2016 independent report on naval shipbuilding. The report made 34 recommendations to the government – all of which were accepted by ...