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Fincantieri : US Navy Awards Concept Design Contract to Fincantieri to Evolve Fremm Into FFG(X)

ROME, Italy, Feb. 19-- Fincantieri Marine Group ... The U.S. Navy awarded to FINCANTIERI (FCT.MI) subsidiary, Marinette Marine Corporation, a $15M contract to evolve its FREMM-design into the nextgene... read more

Italian frigates contender Fincantieri’s cash to float Flinders’ boat

It is delivering, with Lockheed Martin, the Littoral Combat Ships for the US Navy – a project which the group says is directly comparable to the Future Frigates program. “We have created a second dome... read more

F6F-5 Hellcat – one tough fighter!

3/17/14: I added some new information and corrected a couple of errors. Scroll to the bottom for the update. The end of the road, that is, for the A-10. And the U-2. Friends keep asking me what I ... read more

'And we'll sue too'! As Navy heads to Gibraltar, PM threatens Spain with 'unprecedented' legal action over border checks

The plans emerged as a Royal Navy taskforce, including the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious and two frigates, set sail for Gibraltar ... Spanish foreign minister Jose Garcia-Margallo will sound out hi... read more

Canadian Surface Combatant: Naval Group and Fincantieri propose to Canada a joint-offer based on the FREMM frigate design

Naval Group and Fincantieri have previously collaborated on several major naval projects, including the joint development of the FREMM frigate. Considered as a world leader in her class, the FREMM fri... read more

Chinese ship shadows US aircraft carrier amid Malabar exercise

The 100,000 tonne Stennis, which carries F-18 fighter jets, joined nine other naval ships, including a Japanese helicopter carrier and Indian frigates in seas off the Japanese Okinawan island chain. S... read more

Aircraft carriers' costs soar £1bn

The Aircraft Carrier Alliance is a consortium consisting of BVT Surface fleet, which is itself a joint venture between BAE and VT Group, together with Babcock ... of the Equipment Examination review c... read more

Aviation Week & Space Technology

Lord George Robertson, the former NATO secretary general, has been named to receive Aviation Week & Space Technology's John Curtis Sword. Robertson, presently deputy chairman of Cable and Wireless, wa... read more

Possible clue in missing plane mystery

He attended an internal meeting of Malaysian authorities and was told that in the event of a failure of the electronic systems or engines, the aircraft would still have been able to send out a distres... read more

France inks jet sale to Egypt as Cairo bombs IS

The overall deal includes three contracts with Egypt -- supplying Rafale fighter jets, an FREMM multi-mission frigate from naval group DCNS, and missiles ... Switzerland and Brazil have seen the Rafal... read more

KAMOV MILITARY HELICOPTERS

In tune with its operational drive to turn "stealthy", the Navy inducted its latest guided-missile stealth frigate INS Trikand on Saturday ... will showcase their products and capabilities at the eigh... read more

The Millionaire Mob

Came the day when I received my calling up papers and was told to report to Chatham Barracks on June the 8th. 1942 at 9am, or to use Naval parlance ... on board a “stone frigate”, as every shore estab... read more