Sea
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Stirling Castle gives autonomous minehunting a Royal Navy home afloat. The ship supports remote systems, technical crews, and future MCM operations.
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AUKUS submarine sustainment is now moving into Western Australian dockyards. SRF-West will test workforce, maintenance, logistics, and nuclear support capacity.
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India’s GNSS jammer order strengthens domestic naval electronic warfare production. The systems will support satellite-navigation denial, spoofing, and shipborne defensive operations.
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Hanwha Ocean moves South Korea’s KDDX programme into production planning. The destroyer effort will test shipbuilding, combat-systems integration, and sovereign naval supply chains.
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EM&E will supply Portugal with naval remote weapon station systems. The 47-system order covers SENTINEL 2.0 and SENTINEL 30 equipment through NATO’s procurement channel.
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Raytheon is extending SPY-6 radar production for naval modernisation programmes. The $515 million US Navy award supports destroyer upgrades, integration activity, and allied sensor demand around advanced air-and-missile defence.
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Kongsberg and DRASS are strengthening Europe’s underwater autonomy manufacturing base. Their partnership brings UUVs, compact submarines, sonar, navigation, and subsea payload integration into a broader push for persistent maritime defence systems.
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Japan and South Korea have restarted bilateral maritime rescue exercises. The renewed SAREX activity reopens practical work around datalinks, cross-deck aviation, and regional naval interoperability after a nine-year pause.
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VLS reload pressure exposes naval firepower’s manufacturing support gap clearly.
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Shipboard drone operations are moving deeper into Indo-Pacific force design. US Marines have operated Shield AI’s V-BAT from USS Portland, reinforcing demand for compact maritime UAVs that can launch, recover, and sustain ISR missions from confined decks.