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3 weeks ago | 
armadainternational.com | Lee Willett
Sweden – through its defence materiel administration, Försvarets materielverk (FMV) – has contracted Swedish company Saab to supply the Royal Swedish Navy (RSwN) with MBDA’s Sea Ceptor air-defence system for the service’s Visby-class corvettes.
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3 weeks ago | 
navalnews.com | Lee Willett
SDR is built around a ‘NATO first’ approach, as a core UK defence posture principle. “There is an unequivocal need for the UK to redouble its efforts within the alliance and to step up its contribution to Euro-Atlantic security more broadly – particularly as Russian aggression across Europe grows and as the United States of America adapts its regional priorities,” SDR stated.
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1 month 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 month 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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1 month 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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1 month 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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2 months 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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Mar 27, 2025 | 
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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Mar 27, 2025 | 
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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Mar 26, 2025 | 
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.
