A program to develop an unmanned, 80-ton minelaying submarine is three years late and $242 million over budget, according to a Wednesday report from the Government Accountability Office.

Shipbuilder Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) launched the second minelayer, MLS-II Nampo, for the Korean Navy. In attendance at the MLS-II launching ceremony were Baek Seung-joo, Vice Minister of ...

One such sub was the UC-5, a German minelayer submarine with an impressive war record. Tiny by modern standards, UC-5 weighed less than 200 tons surfaced. She was designed to operate in coastal ...

Nov. 30 (UPI) --Atlas Elektronik in Finland has announced completion of mid-life upgrades for Pansio-class inshore minelayers of the Finnish Defense Forces. The third of three upgraded ships was ...

Lungteh shipyard on April 17, 2020 laid the keel for the third and fourth Min Jiang-class minelayer. The Republic of China Navy plans to begin accepting the minelayers in 2021. The Taiwanese fleet ...

The multi-mission corvette Ta Jiang (PGG-619), dubbed as a “carrier killer”, was commissioned on Thursday at the same time the island’s navy took delivery of a high-speed minelayer under the ...

Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen attended a steel-cutting ceremony for a new corvette class at Lung Teh Shipbuilding near the Suao Naval Base on 24 May. Contracts for three corvettes and four ...

DRDO transfers technology for Godrej Precision Engineering to produce Mechanical Mine Layer-Self Propelled vehicle. The Indian Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) has concluded a ...

The heavy flamethrower TOS-1A Solntsepyok is meant to provide fire support for infantry and armor, destroy enemy manpower, and both sheltered and unsheltered fire emplacements in different types ...

The Finnish Navy said on Friday that its minelayer Hämeenmaa had inadvertently ventured a short distance into Russian territorial waters during a surveillance exercise on Thursday. The vessel had been ...

The Pohjanmaa set sail on January 5. The 35-year-old vessel covered some 26,000 nautical miles per month without any technical problems. The ship spent 65 days at sea. The vessel’s aim was to protect ...