Built by the Lockheed Martin team, the future USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) set sail Aug. 6 from the Marinette Marine shipyard in Wisconsin on its maiden voyage to Galveston, Texas, for its commissioning Sept. 22. Fort Worth will transit through the Great Lakes and St. Lawrence Seaway before sailing down the East Coast and across the Gulf of Mexico on its way to Galveston.

Philippine Defense Secretary Voltaire Gazmin announced that the country entered negotiations with the Italian government for the purchase of two Maestrale class Anti-Submarine frigates in a deal estimated at 11.7 billion Philippine pesos (280 Millions USD).

The Board of Rosatom August 3, 2012 selected the company "Baltiysky Zavod JSC" (which passed under the control of the United Shipbuilding Corporation - OCK) for the construction of the head of the new-generation class of large nuclear-powered icebreaker designated Project 22220 (LC-60YA).

Russia’s Baltic Fleet battleships and combat aircraft will take part in large-scale tactical drills in the country’s westernmost enclave of Kaliningrad on August 8 to land marines in rough terrain, the press office of the Western Military District reported.

The Iranian authorities announced they had successfully fired as part of a test, a modernized version of the locally made Fateh-110 short-range ballistic missile (SRBM). According to the Defence Minister, the missile is now capable to reach targets at sea thanks to a new upgrade.

Russia sent three large landing ships, with soldiers on board, bound for its naval base in Tartus, Syria, reported today Russian news agencies quoted a member of the General Staff.

Raytheon Company delivered the 2,000th Evolved SeaSparrow Missile to the NATO SeaSparrow Consortium. "ESSM is a model for global operations, and the delivery of our 2,000th missile demonstrates the significant commitment of our international team to continue providing this critical capability to the warfighter," said Ed Roesly, Raytheon Missile Systems' ESSM program director. "We have delivered ESSMs for a decade and expect continued production past 2017."

Russia’s Baltic Shipyard has started metal cutting for the hull of the first Mistral class amphibious assault ship being built in France for the Russian Navy, the United Shipbuilding Corporation said on Wednesday.

A total of 51 surface vessels and 24 submarines, including 8 Borei-class submarines, will enter into service in the Russian Navy by 2020, Russian President Vladimir Putin said Monday while attending a ceremony to launch construction of Russia’s fourth Borei-class (Project 955A) ballistic missile submarine.

The P-8A Poseidon jet, a replacement maritime patrol aircraft for the P-3C Orion, made its Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise debut this year, flown by two air crews from Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 1 at Marine Corps Base Hawaii in Kaneohe Bay, during the 23rd edition of the biennial exercise .

A Lockheed Martin and Raytheon Company team has demonstrated its potential electronic attack solution for the U.S. Navy’s Surface Electronic Warfare Improvement Program (SEWIP) during the multinational Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) maritime exercise near Hawaii.

The U.S. Navy has awarded Raytheon Company a $51.7 million contract for low rate initial production of the Rolling Airframe Missile Block 2. The contract includes options, which, if exercised, would bring the cumulative value of this contract to more than $105 million. RAM Block 2 features enhanced kinematics, an evolved radio frequency receiver, a new rocket motor, and an upgraded control and autopilot system.

Over 15,000 servicemen, as well as more than 170 vessels and submarines took part in festive activities dedicated to Russia's Navy Day, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. The professional holiday of Russian naval servicemen was established in 1939 and is marked on the last Sunday of July.

Lockheed Martin has submitted its final proposal to the U.S. Navy to design, build, integrate and test the new Air and Missile Defense Radar (AMDR) for the future DDG-51 Flight III class destroyer. The scalable AMDR S-band radar and radar suite controller will provide significantly increased sensitivity for simultaneous long-range detection and engagement of advanced anti-ship and ballistic missile threats.