Writing for Defence Online, David Eldridge, Sales Director at Chess Dynamics looks at the critical demands of a naval surveillance capability. The surveillance capability of a naval vessel is the ship’s eyes, used to detect potential threats before they’re too close, and is vital to its operation and survivability. The nature ...
BAE Systems has been selected to supply 12 Bofors 40 Mk4 naval guns to the Belgian and Dutch navies as part of the Mine Counter Measures Vessels (MCMV) program. The shipbuilding company Kership will install the guns on the fleet of 12 mine hunting vessels – six for Belgium, six for ...
Saab and the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration, (FMV), have signed two contracts worth 190 MSEK concerning the next generation of surface ships and corvettes. A Product Definition Phase for the Mid-Life Upgrades (MLU) of five Visby-class corvettes, as well as a Product Definition Phase for the next generation; Visby Generation 2 ...
Cutting-edge Spearfish and Sting Ray torpedoes carried by the Royal Navy are to undergo a £230 million maintenance uplift. Spearfish torpedoes – which use sonar to home in on targets – are carried by the Royal Navy’s Astute class and Trafalgar class hunter-killer submarines and the nuclear deterrent Vanguard class to ...
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