Friday, 12 February 2021 15:39
ARES Shipyard and Meteksan Defence, which had initiated Turkey’s first indigenous Armed Unmanned Surface Vehicle (AUSV) program in October 2020, announced that the prototype vessel, ULAQ AUSV has been launched and sea trials have been started.
The prototype AUSV’s missile systems are inclusive of 4 cells of Cirit and 2 of L-UMTAS (Picture source: Meteksan Defence Industry)
Utku Alanç, Chief Executive Officer of ARES Shipyard, and Selçuk K. Alparslan, General Manager of Meteksan Defence, stated: In the field of Unmanned Surface Vehicles (USVs); we would like to proudly announce that we have launched the first Armed Unmanned Surface Vehicle of ULAQ series, and have initiated the intensive sea trials period. From now on, our next short term target is to complete the sea trials successfully and carry out the guided missile firing tests. Since the very first announcement of ULAQ Unmanned Systems, we have encountered significant interest from
IRGC Navy equipped with 340 new speedboats IRGC Navy equipped with 340 new speedboats Thursday, 11 February 2021 12:41
According to a news published by Fars News Agency on February 11, 2021, the Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) Navy in a ceremony at Bandar Abbas port in Southern Iran on Monday received 340 new speedboats with the capability to fire different missiles and rockets and support diving operations.
IRGC Navy in a ceremony at Bandar Abbas with the new speedboats (Picture source: Twitter)
The ceremony was attended by Chief of Staff of Iran s Armed Forces Major General Mohammad Baqeri, IRGC Commander Major General Hossein Salami, IRGC Navy Commander Rear Admiral Ali Reza Tangsiri, Governor of Hormozgan province and other government and military officials.
According to a news published on February 11, 2021 by Paramount Maritime Holdings, its subsidiary has announced the launch of its new flagship 35m Sentinel vessel, the second of the new enhanced class.
New Belgian frigates to have only 4 Mk41 missile launchers instead of 8 New Belgian frigates to have only 4 Mk41 missile launchers instead of 8 Thursday, 11 February 2021 09:41
The Netherlands and Belgium are jointly replacing the current M-class frigates. Both countries will each receive two ASW Fregates. The intention was that these ships would be identical, but there will now be a (provisional) difference, Jaime Karremann reports on marineschepen.nl: the Belgian ships will not be equipped with 16 launch cells for missiles, but with 8, the Belgian Defense Minister Ludivine Dedonder announced on February 10.
The Belgian and Dutch new ship class will be called Anti-Submarine Warfare Frigate (ASWF). (Drawing source: Dutch MoD)
Navantia and Naviris sign a MOU for the European Patrol Corvette program Navantia and Naviris sign a MOU for the European Patrol Corvette program Thursday, 11 February 2021 16:46
Naviris (the 50/50 joint venture company between Fincantieri and Naval Group in charge of development of cooperation programs) and Navantia have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) aimed at enlarging the industrial cooperation for the European Patrol Corvette (EPC) program, the most important naval initiative within the Permanent Structured Cooperation (PESCO) project.
(Picture source: Naviris)
The EPC will be a smart, innovative, affordable, sustainable, interoperable and flexible vessel to meet the future missions in the evolved world context of mid-21st century. EPC will be a fully ready surface combatant to carry-out diversified missions, primarily aimed at enhancing maritime situational awareness, surface superiority and power projection, particularly in the context of gover