When the giant industrial concern ThyssenKrupp releases its annual results on Thursday, the focus will likely be on the company’s unprofitable steel division, which is being merged with Tata Steel UK and hopes to return to profit by cutting thousands of jobs….
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The Navy must find innovative ways to defend and protect its assets against cyber attacks, a top service official said. Like many companies and organizations across the world, the Navy is facing threats from both individual “lone-wolf kind of actors”…
Discussions between France and the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for the sale of two Gowind corvettes are progressing well. Abu Dhabi would like to purchase two Naval Group anti-submarine warfare corvettes (2,400 tonnes). Emmanuel Macron is going there on November…
Let me start with something nice and uncontroversial. Submarines might be obsolete by the middle of the century. It’s possible that advances in artificial intelligence (AI), detection systems and signal processing, combined with swarming autonomous unmanned systems, could make it…
The head of the French firm helping to build Australia’s $50 billion fleet of new submarines has admitted it faces a significant battle to find a qualified and experienced local workforce. Herve Guillou, CEO of French firm Naval Group, told…
Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon has unveiled an ambitious new National Shipbuilding Strategy which meets the challenge set by Sir John Parker last November and sets out plans for the first batch of Type 31e frigates. Sir John Parker’s independent report…
De Franse scheepswerf DCNS is getroffen door een groot datalek. Meer dan twintigduizend pagina’s met geheime informatie zijn uitgelekt, zo berichtte de Australische krant The Australian. De data betreffen de Scorpène-duikboten die verkocht zijn aan India, Chili en Maleisië. Ook…
Chief Analyst Usman Ansari explores whether Brexit could permit greater European military integration and formation of a so-called EU Navy. He finds that NATO is actually encouraging Europe to set up formal naval task groups and Germany is a major…
Economy minister says Paris will take control of STX France shipyard and find another buyer unless Italy agreed to split ownership of the asset. An industrial spat between Paris and Rome deepened on Wednesday after France’s economy minister promised to…
On Tuesday, Israeli police detained Vice Adm. Eliezer Marom (ret’d.), head of the Israeli Navy from 2007 to 2011, for questioning related to the ongoing ThyssenKrupp procurement scandal. The investigation centers on the actions of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s lawyer,…