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1 week ago | 
armadainternational.com | Lee Willett
US 6th Fleet and Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO) recently completed an anti-air warfare exercise called ‘At-Sea Demonstration/Formidable Shield 2025’ (‘ASD/FS25’).
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1 week ago | 
navalnews.com | Lee Willett
Such plans reflect early interest in the capability and offer capacity to support customer trials or initial orders, Naval News understands. Scaling will now commence, with trials and testing of the capability package already underway.
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2 weeks ago | 
armadainternational.com | Lee Willett
On the evening of 11 January 2024, United States and United Kingdom forces conducted offensive strike operations against Ansar Allah (Houthi) rebel targets ashore in Yemen. The US Navy (USN) launched Tomahawk cruise missiles from destroyers, and F/A-18 Hornet strike aircraft from the carrier USS Dwight D Eisenhower; the UK Royal Air Force launched Typhoon strike aircraft from the UK’s forward base at Akrotiri, Cyprus. Sixteen rebel targets were struck across six locations in Western Yemen.
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3 weeks ago | 
armadainternational.com | Lee Willett
The UK Royal Navy (RN) has kick-started its global carrier strike group (CSG) deployment by participating alongside the Italian Navy (ITN) and other NATO partners in Exercise ‘Med Strike’ in the central Mediterranean Sea. The RN’s HMS Prince of Wales CSG sailed for its eight-month ‘CSG25’ deployment from the North Atlantic ocean to the Indo-Pacific theatre in late April.
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1 month ago | 
navalnews.com | Lee Willett
Four international companies are forming a partnership to provide capability and capacity to tackle underwater threats.
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2 months ago | 
armadainternational.com | Lee Willett
As naval surveillance and engagement requirements grow, so naval EO/IR systems developers are accelerating their use of new technology to keep track of the threat. On 19 October 2023, while sailing in the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen, the US Navy (USN) DDG 51 Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer (DDG) USS Carney shot down three land-attack missiles and several unmanned systems.
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2 months ago | 
navalnews.com | Lee Willett |maritime issues. Based |'Dynamic Manta’
In the keynote address at the annual Undersea Defence Technology (UDT) conference – held this year in Oslo, Norway – Rear Admiral Oliver Berdal said CUI protection sits high up on security agendas for good reason, following a spate of incidents involving damage and disruption to CUI networks including in the Baltic and Norwegian seas. Incidents in waters off Lofoten and Svalbard, Norway occurred in 2021 and 2022.
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2 months ago | 
seapowermagazine.org | Lee Willett
NATO navies are steadily increasing their use of maritime uncrewed systems, or MUS, aided by an extensive exercise process that covers the development of vehicles, payloads, capabilities and supporting architecture through various phases. These phases include research and development, test and evaluation, operational experimentation and integration into frontline assets and task groups.
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Mar 6, 2025 | 
navalnews.com | Lee Willett |maritime issues. Based |'Dynamic Manta’
The French Navy (Marine Nationale) is looking towards a vertical take-off/landing capability for uncrewed aerial vehicles (VTOL UAV) to enhance the operational reach and flexibility of its surface ships, including those providing core at-sea surveillance presence for the navy, a senior officer from the service told a conference in London in late January.
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Mar 5, 2025 | 
armadainternational.com | Lee Willett |Lee Willet
NATO’s Mediterranean-focused anti-submarine warfare (ASW) exercise ‘Dynamic Manta’ got underway in late February. The exercise is aiming to demonstrate capability to deal with a range of underwater threats. ‘Dynamic Manta’ is one of three annual, high-end ASW exercises run by NATO Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM) across the Euro-Atlantic theatre.
