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Defence Minister recognises Scotland’s UK defence role

Maritime January 29, 2018

Guto Bebb has made his first visit to Scotland as the new Minister for Defence Procurement. The Minister met with the Secretary of State for Scotland, David Mundell, and the heads of the Royal Navy, Army and RAF in Scotland in Glasgow. Scotland is home to more than 10,000 regular and 4,000 ...

ASV Global’s autonomous surface vessel successfully deployed

Maritime January 25, 2018

ASV Global has announced the successful deployment of one of its C-Worker 7 class of autonomous surface vessels for Subsea 7. The 7m autonomous surface vessel was used to support a pipelay operation off the coast of Egypt. Fitted with a survey suite comprising a multibeam echosounder and side scan sonar, the C-Worker ...

Saab to demonstrate anti-submarine training system to US Navy

Maritime January 15, 2018

Defence and security specialist Saab plans to demonstrate its anti-submarine warfare training system – the AUV62-AT – to the US Navy, it has been announced. During the demonstration, the US Navy will evaluate the AUV62-AT – an artificial acoustic system designed to mimic a submarine – to see how it stacks ...

Gibbs & Cox appointed to Multi-Mission Surface Combatant contract

Maritime January 12, 2018

Lockheed Martin has announced the appointment of independent naval architect and marine engineer Gibbs & Cox in support of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia’s Multi-Mission Surface Combatant (MMSC). Previously, Lockheed Martin’s MMSC was chosen to fulfil the Royal Saudi Naval Forces multi-mission surface combatant requirement. In May of last year both the ...