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 ...

North Korea has tested the combat effectiveness of the Choe Ryong multi-purpose minelayer weapons system launched last week, reports the Korean Central News Agency. The first tests of these minelayer ...

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 ...

Minelayer vessel Pansio has been fully refitted and handed over to the Finnish Navy, following a midlife upgrade carried out by ATLAS ELEKTRONIK Finland Oy (AEFI ) together with Uki Workboat Oy ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

During World War I, the SM UC-5, a German Type UC I minelayer submarine in the German Imperial Navy, took part in the Liberty Loan Parade in Central Park. The parade was part of an massive effort ...

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 ...