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The Pentagon is studying whether Japanese and South Korean shipyards and designs could help accelerate US frigate and destroyer production as domestic capacity remains under pressure.

Singapore has cut steel for the third and fourth Victory-class Multi-Role Combat Vessels, moving its unmanned-systems mothership programme deeper into serial production at ST Engineering’s Benoi yard.

Poland has started building its third and final Miecznik frigate. Steel cutting for Huragan moves the Polish Navy programme into parallel construction across all three Arrowhead 140-based ships at PGZ Stocznia Wojenna in Gdynia.

Indonesia has used a C-705 missile against a land target. The firing from KRI Sampari expands the employment profile of a naval strike weapon already fielded across the country’s fast attack craft fleet.

U.S. Marine Corps NMESIS launchers have deployed to northern Philippines for Balikatan 2026, reinforcing mobile sea-denial capabilities near the Luzon Strait.

Rolls-Royce’s MT30 marine gas turbine will power Australia’s upgraded Mogami-class frigates, linking UK propulsion production with Japanese shipbuilding and Australian naval sustainment.

Northrop Grumman’s Glide Phase Interceptor programme has moved into a more defined production phase as the United States and Japan divide propulsion, control, and kill-vehicle responsibilities.

Malaysia has selected South Korea’s K-SAAM for the Royal Malaysian Navy’s LMS Batch 2 corvettes, adding a new shipborne air-defence layer to vessels already under construction in Türkiye.

UK work with Norway on Type 26 build slots is reinforcing long-run workload visibility on the Clyde while extending the programme’s export-industrial footprint.