Maritime Security

Maritime Security

Israel Shipyards signed an agreement to supply its SHALDAG MK V vessels to the Israeli Navy. The company will provide four vessels that have...

Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) is integrating offensive and defensive systems, to enhance the 'Sa'ar 6' corvette's capabilities and usher the Israeli Navy into a...

Rafael Advanced Defense Systems unveils Sea Breaker, a 5th generation long range, autonomous, precision-guided missile system, enabling significant attack performance against a variety of...

Unmanned surface vehicles are becoming more and more autonomous, capable of accomplishing more sophisticated missions. The University of Plymouth, UK, and the Royal Navy...

Finland is acquiring enhanced maritime surveillance and information-sharing capabilities.  The Finnish Border Guard is once again operating the CAMCOPTER S-100 for implementing coast guard functions...
unmanned vessel

An autonomous ship has set sail across the Atlantic Ocean. This ship is the world’s first unmanned, fully autonomous, AI-powered marine research vessel that...

The UK’s Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) has enabled the latest artificial intelligence (AI) to be brought into the command spaces on a...
maritime boarding jet suit

Maritime boarding operations are challenging and have traditionally involved troops coming alongside a ship in a fast boat and hooking a caving ladder or...

The integration between unmanned and manned capabilities provides an operations approach to strengthening manned unmanned teaming, adding a warfighting advantage. In an unprecedented exercise...
photo illus. vessel by Wikimedia

RF signals can provide valuable insight into commercial vessel activity across the globe, even when bad actors seek to hide their location. New maritime...

Dubbed as the world’s first patrol ship with a diving capability, a vessel developed by Russia’s Rubin Central Design Bureau can function as a...

A new pan-tilt-zoom (PTZ) camera developed for use aboard naval vessels has been designed to provide a low-cost military PTZ solution. The camera, ODIN, developed...
frigate

The Hellenic Navy will acquire eight Multi-Mission Surface Combatant (MMSC) frigates from Lockheed Martin. The company said that the ships could be produced in...
Photo illustration US Navy

As the cyber threat landscape continues to evolve, maintaining cybersecurity in the maritime sphere requires more international collaboration.  Cyware, a Virtual Cyber Fusion Platform provider,...

The U.S Navy is asking Boeing to build 11 more P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol and surveillance aircraft under terms of a $1.6 billion order....
aircraft carrier

Nearly two-thirds of the aircraft flying off U.S. Navy carriers could be unmanned someday, including the possibility of drone fighter jets, a top aviation...
naval UAVs

The US Navy and Marine Corps are making a serious effort to more heavily incorporate drones into their operations. The developing abilities of competitors such...

Over the backdrop of the growing Russian and Chinese submarine activity in the North Atlantic and Western Pacific, Northrop Grumman wants to add anti-submarine...

The US Navy has teamed with NASA to test next-generation helmet upgrades. The Navy’s Office of Naval Research (ONR) has funded the development and...
Stealth Warship Postponed

The US Navy's new stealth destroyer Zumwalt passed a round of sea trials in which it sailed through two storms off California and Alaska,...

Sonobuoys are air-launched expendable, electro-mechanical anti-submarine warfare (ASW) acoustic sensors designed to relay underwater sounds of ships and submarines. The devices enable Navy ASW...
aircraft carrier

An oil spill such as the one that has drenched Israel’s coastline in tar, can be replicated by hackers that remotely take control of...

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