Naval Analyses

05/12/2025

One fewer frigate for the Royal Navy as HMS Lancaster has now paid off. Seven Type 23 frigates remain in active service.

The longest-serving frigate in the Fleet (34 years) paid off arriving in Bahrain for the last time. The 'Queen's Frigate' has spent more than 11 years at sea on patrol, sailing over 800,000 nautical miles.

04/12/2025

CNN Portugal journalist Rolando Santos reported that Portugal has decided to procure three Fincantieri FREMM EVO frigates in a deal valued at approximately €3 billion.

04/12/2025

Balkan Naval Procurements (surface combatants)
🇦🇱 1 x Cassiopea-class OPV
🇧🇬 2 x MMPV 90 light corvettes
🇬🇷 4 x FDI HN frigates
🇲🇪 2 x OPV 60M
🇷🇴 1 x Hisar-class light corvette
🇹🇷 8 x Istif-class frigates, 8-10 Hisar-class OPV/light corvettes

03/12/2025

Turkish state-owned defense contractor ASFAT announced that Romania will acquire one Hisar-class corvette from Turkey. The sale is Turkey's first ever export of a warship to a NATO and an EU member country. The contract was signed between ASFAT and Romanian Ministry of National Defence, today.

30/11/2025

The twelve ATMACA (8) and HARPOON (4) anti-ship missile launchers of the heavily upgraded 🇹🇷 Navy Barbaros-class (MEKO 200TN Track II) frigate TCG Orucreis (F-245).

25/11/2025

Constellation Class Frigate Program is cancelled!

This post has been updated with a statement from Fincantieri The Navy is walking away from the Constellation-class frigate program to focus on new classes of warships the service can build faster, Secretary of the Navy John Phelan announced Tuesday on social media. Under the terms negotiated with sh...

25/11/2025

The Royal Navy's Queen Elizabeth–class aircraft carriers currently lack several key systems for their defense. Although they were expected to be fitted with four 30mm RWS (blue circles), none have been installed. They are also missing an R-ESM sensor, decoy-launching systems (beyond the anti-torpedo decoy launchers already fitted), and likely (?) a 4th Phalanx CIWS (red circle). It is regrettable that such impressive and valuable warships remain without their full intended equipment, especially given the relatively modest cost required to complete these installations.

22/11/2025

Mk38 Mod 3 25mm RWS with co-axial Mk52 7.62mm machine gun, in action!

21/11/2025

NATO MARCOM's Playbook video (Part 1) is here! 🎥
Allied forces in the trained together to sharpen ASW & ASuW skills, from submarine–air cooperation to surface–air coordination at Task Group level. Stronger interoperability. Greater capability. Ready to secure the Baltic Sea.⚓️💪

17/11/2025

The first of two MMPV 90 corvettes for the Bulgarian Navy commenced sea trials sea trials in Varna Bay and Black Sea in November 2025.

16/11/2025

Impressive video! Recently, during exercise Ægir 25, Norwegian Ula-class submarine KNM Uthaug fired one of its torpedoes at the decommissioned frigate KNM Trondheim, with the aim of sinking the vessel. The purpose of the shot was to verify and demonstrate the striking power that the weapon and the submarine represent.

16/11/2025

The Gerald R. Ford Carrier Strike Group, comprising USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78), USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG-81), USS Mahan (DDG-72), USS Bainbridge (DDG-96) embarked Carrier Air Wing 8 , has entered the Caribbean Sea! The rare deployment of a carrier strike group to SOUTHCOM comes as the U.S. has massed forces in the Caribbean that include USS Stockdale (DDG-106) and USS Gravely (DDG-107), guided-missile cruiser USS Lake Erie (CG-70) and amphibious warships USS Iwo Jima (LHD-7), USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD-28) and USS San Antonio (LPD-17) are also operating in U.S. Southern Command. The Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group is sailing with the 22nd Marine Expeditionary Force embarked.

Aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN-78) entered the Caribbean Sea on Sunday, according to a statement from Carrier Strike Group 12. The carrier and the embarked Carrier Air Wing 8 sailed south through the Anegada Passage east of Puerto Rico on Sunday as part of the newly named Operation Souther...