£230 million contract to bolster Royal Navy torpedoes
Cutting-edge Spearfish and Sting Ray torpedoes carried by the Royal Navy are receiving a £230 million maintenance uplift.
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27 January 2021 The Spearfish and Stingray torpedoes are cutting-edge capabilities, carried on a number of Royal Navy submarines. Crown copyright.
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 neutralise underwater and surface threats.
While Sting Ray torpedoes are deployed on Anti-Submarine Warfare mission, including frigates, Merlin and Wildcat helicopters. They provide a close attack capability which also automatically targets in on enemy threats.
Turkey launches its first Istanbul-class F 515 frigate built for Turkish Navy Turkey launches its first Istanbul-class F 515 frigate built for Turkish Navy Saturday, 23 January 2021 19:05
According to a Tweet published on January 23, 2021, Turkey has officially launched the first Istanbul-class F 515 frigate on January 23, 2021. The launching ceremony was attended by the President of Turkey Tayyip Erdoğan and the president of SSB (The Turkish Defense Association) Ismail Demir.
The official ceremony for the launching of the first Istanbul-class frigate for the Turkish Navy. (Picture source SSB)
The Istanbul-class also called I-class frigate is a series of four frigates built for the Turkish Navy that were developed under the MILGEM Turkish national warship program. The official cutting steel ceremony first of the first Istanbul-class frigate was held January 19, 2017, at Istanbul Shipyard which is the main contractor for the construction of the ship. It is planned
Local Navy Contract Awards; January 14-January 21, 2021
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January 22, 2021
WASHINGTON (, 2021) The U.S. Department of Defense recently announced the following contract awards that pertain to local Navy activities.
Contracts For Jan. 14, 2021
The MIL Corp., Bowie, Maryland, is awarded an
$80,864,126 cost-plus-fixed-fee, cost-reimbursable, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract. This contract provides for systems engineering services for assigned Global Radio Frequency Intelligence Networks related technologies and systems in support of the Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Webster Outlying Field Integrated Command, Control and Intel Division. Work will be performed in Saint Inigoes, Maryland, and is expected to be completed in April 2026. No funds will be obligated at the time of award. Funds will be obligated on individual task orders as they are issued. This contract was competitively procured via an electronic request for proposal; one offer was rece
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The ongoing multination Sea Dragon 2021 exercise in the U.S. territory of Guam illustrates yet another platform in which the United States, along with key Indo-Pacific allies and partners, seek to promote high-end naval interoperability and readiness. This year’s exercise involves Australia, Canada, India, Japan and the United States; as The Diplomat editor-at-large Ankit Panda described it on Twitter, it, thus, effectively is a “Quad+1” exercise. While the navies of India, Japan and the United States are participating in the exercise, Australia and Canada have sent units from their air forces.
The 2020 Sea Dragon exercise saw the participation of New Zealand and South Korea, along with Australia, Japan, and the United States.
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