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General Atomics targets East Asia - and its helicopter carriers - with its UAVs

3 days ago | navalnews.com | Gordon Arthur

East Asia – encompassing Japan, South Korea and Taiwan – are important markets for General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) in terms of existing and potential orders. It also believes short-take-off-and-landing versions of its unmanned aircraft would be suitable for Japan and South Korea, both of which operate large helicopter carrier ships.
U.S. Navy's F/A-XX 6th Generation Fighter Gets Funding Boost, Enters DOT&E's Operational Test and Live Fire Evaluations

3 days ago | navalnews.com | Carter Johnston

The U.S. Navy’s F/A-XX has transitioned from its long standing Developmental Test and Evaluation period to a combination of Developmental Testing (DT), Operational Testing (OT), and Live Fire (LF) evaluation last month within the the Office of the Director, Operational Test and Evaluation amid rumors of cancellations and contract awards. The transition occurred between December 2024 and April 2025—in the first quarter of FY2025.
U.S. Navy Sees Significant Improvement In Scheduling After Maintenance Planning Overhaul

6 days ago | navalnews.com | Carter Johnston

At day one of Combined Naval Event 2025, Gumbleton was keynote speaker for a session titled Strengthening Naval Power in a Contested Maritime Environment, emphasizing the difficulties of force generation, forward deployment, and force employment—as well as what the U.S. Navy is doing to overcome its current shortfalls to improve maintenance periods and planned incremental availabilities for future contingency requirements.
MADEX 2025: Hanwha Ocean eyes Canada’s submarine requirement

1 week ago | navalnews.com | Gordon Arthur

Hanwha Ocean displayed a concept model for a future submarine – one that could employ either diesel-electric or nuclear propulsion – at MADEX 2025 in Busan, but the South Korean shipbuilder has its sights set on more immediate submarine requirements.
Turkish Navy launches 3rd Reis-class AIP submarine, TCG Muratreis

1 week ago | navalnews.com | Tayfun Ozberk

The Turkish Ministry of Defence announced the launch of the third Reis-class submarine on social media, sharing photos of the vessel as it touched the water at Gölcük Naval Shipyard. “MURATREİS, the third of the six Reis-class submarines under construction at our Directorate of Shipyards’ Gölcük Shipyard Command, was launched on the 572nd anniversary of the Conquest of Istanbul.”Turkish MoD X accountMuratreis, the second submarine of the project, was dry-docked on 07 June 2024.
Hanwha Ocean shows new Ghost Commander II MUM-T ship

1 week ago | navalnews.com | Gordon Arthur

Continuing the tradition of South Korean shipbuilders showing innovative concepts at home defence exhibitions, Hanwha Ocean appeared at MADEX 2025 in Busan with a new concept for a ship capable of performing manned-unmanned teaming (MUM-T). This vessel of potential interest to the Republic of Korea Navy (ROKN) is called the Ghost Commander II, and it is a quite different concept from the original Ghost Commander shown at MADEX 2023.
Hellenic Navy Outlines Requirements for Next-Generation Submarine Program

1 week ago | navalnews.com | Dimitris Mitsopoulos

On May 22, 2025, at CNE 2025, a Navy Leaders Conference, Commodore Konstantinos Tourkantonis, Deputy Director of the Armaments Directorate of the Hellenic Navy General Staff, revealed new details for the imminent modernization of the Hellenic Navy’s submarine fleet. It is worth noting that the Greek Commodore previously served as Director of the submarine program, giving him direct and extensive involvement in Greece’s submarine initiatives.
EUROMARFOR: 30 years of European maritime cooperation

1 week ago | navalnews.com | Luca Peruzzi

The event was attended by the fleet commanders of the four nations, representatives from governmental and maritime organizations, and former commanders of the force, all aboard the Italian Navy’s Carlo Margottini, a Bergamini-class FREMM frigate. The Carlo Margottini was joined by the French Navy’s Commandant Birot patrol vessel, as well as the frigates of the Portuguese and Spanish Navies, Bartolomeu Dias and Santa Maria.
Helsing and Partners Prepare to Scale Up New AI-enhanced Underwater Surveillance Package

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.
Fujitsu signs MOU with Lockheed Martin on power supply components of the AN/SPY-7(V)1 solid state radar

1 week ago | navalnews.com | Kosuke Takahashi

The announcement was made on May 22 amid the DSEI Japan 2025 defense show in Chiba Prefecture, which attracted 471 exhibitors from 33 countries as the country’s largest defense trade show. Under the agreement, Fujitsu will manufacture “the SPY-7 Subarray Suite Power Supply Line Replaceable Unit (PS LRU)” for the ASEVs, a joint press release by Fujitsu and Lockheed said. An official at Fujitsu told Naval News on May 23 that Lockheed will place an order with Fujitsu after October 2025.