by Joe Katzman | Oct 8, 2012 | Contracts - Awards, DCNS, France, Support & Maintenance, Surface Ships - Combat
De Gaulle battlegroup(click to view full) In late 2012, DCNS signed an EUR 221 million contract with the French Navy’s Fleet Support Service (SSF) for another 4 years of support services to France’s lone aircraft carrier, the nuclear-powered FS Charles de...
by Editorial Staff | Oct 8, 2012 | Airbus, BAE, Britain/U.K., Daily Rapid Fire, Fighters & Attack, Forces - Naval, France, Germany, Issues - Political, Lockheed Martin, Mergers & Acquisitions, Middle East - Other, Russia, USA
Last before Flight III The US Navy commissioned USS Michael Murphy (DDG 112) which will be homeported in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. Before the Navy restructured its surface combatant plans in 2009, the destroyer was expected to be the last of the Arleigh Burke class. John...