The trials are aimed at assessing and verifying the ship's capabilities at sea, with delivery scheduled for 2025.

The Vlissingen, the second of the series of mine countermeasures vessels (MCM) of the Belgian-Dutch rMCM program, first ...

Damen Naval has delivered the Royal Netherlands Navy's (RNLN's) new combat support ship (CSS), Den Helder (A 834), to the Dutch Ministry of Defence's Materiel and ...

A secret map of Ireland's coastline played a crucial role in taking down a powerful alliance of pirates that had based itself in the southwest of Ireland in the 17th century.

In 2020, the Office of Naval Intelligence told Congress that Chinese naval ships are now “in many cases comparable” to their U.S. counterparts and that China was “quickly closing the gap” in design ...

The suite will include bow, flank, and obstacle-avoidance sonars, an intercept array, a passive towed-array sonar, and more.

Model ships served an important military purpose. “The U.S. Navy contracted to have models made in this scale for aviators to identify enemy and friendly ships,” Simanton said. “They had ...

The Royal Navy has confirmed it will investigate the death of one of its recruits after routine training at a military base near Plymouth last week. The death occurred on Tuesday, March 11 ...

Underwater surveillance is entering a new era as the Royal Netherlands Navy modernizes its submarine fleet. Central to this initiative is the development of the Orka-class submarines, set to replace ...

At another Dutch port is Delfzijl, where the 118.55m length overall (LOA) MPP is registered at the homeport of Wagenborg, whose grey-hulled vessels sport a red band lengthwise, and this wraps around ...

Thales, a long-standing partner of both Naval Group and the Royal Netherlands Navy, will provide a comprehensive suite of high-performance sonar systems for the future class of submarines that will ...