Navies are rearming their magazines, not just their hulls. Medium-calibre gun ammunition, decoys and countermeasures, torpedoes and ship-launched interceptors all sit in the same strained supply chains as land ammunition, and NATO shipbuilding backlogs make the timing worse. This hub collects ISC's naval-domain coverage: NSPA naval ammunition frameworks, gun and decoy tenders, submarine and frigate programme analysis where the weapons fit matters, and the industrial base behind ship-delivered ordnance.
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| 5 Sep 2026 | Thirty Days, No Engineer: The Magazine Inside Britain’s Hybrid Navy On 29 June 2026 the Ministry of Defence cancelled the Type 83 destroyer and committed to at least six Common Combat Vessels working with uncrewed Type 91 missi… | Explosive Safety |
| 3 Sep 2026 | Both Launchers Measure 6.7 Metres: The Turkish Frigate Bid Turns on Certification, Not Steel Acting Secretary of the Navy Hung Cao has ordered an assessment of foreign built combatants reporting on 12 November 2026, and three allied frigate designs are… | Standards & Regulation |
| 3 Sep 2026 | The Navy exercises its MEDUSA option: offensive mining comes back Naval Sea Systems Command exercised a 15,147,625 dollar option on 2 September 2026 against General Dynamics Mission Systems contract N00024-24-C-6315 for MEDUS… | WOME Intelligence |
| 29 Aug 2026 | Six Hulls in Twenty-Eight Years: Russia Lays Down the Lada Maloyaroslavets Admiralty Shipyards laid the keel of the Project 677 Lada submarine Maloyaroslavets in St Petersburg on 27 August 2026. It is the sixth Project 677 hull ordere… | Operational Analysis |
| 25 Aug 2026 | Three Guns, Three Loops: What a NATO Navy Bought for EUR 19.4 Million MS International plc announced on 24 August 2026 that MSI Defence Systems has won a EUR 19.4 million contract from an unnamed NATO nation for three MSI-DS 30 m… | NATO Procurement |
| 14 Aug 2026 | Seismic Earth-Covered Magazines at Sigonella: NAVFAC Awards $78 Million Ordnance Storage Build on the Southern Flank On 13 August 2026 Naval Facilities Engineering Systems Command Atlantic awarded Conti Federal Services LLC of Orlando, Florida a $77,981,311 firm-fixed-price c… | Explosive Safety |
| 13 Aug 2026 | Two Increments and a Lithium Boiler: Mk 54 Mod 2 and the NATO 324 mm Inventory Decision Northrop Grumman took the Mk 54 Mod 2 prime role on 12 January 2026 under a 233 million US dollar qualification award. The programme splits into a warhead incr… | NATO Procurement |
| 10 Aug 2026 | Sting Ray Mod 2: What Britain’s £600m Torpedo Commitment Means for NATO’s Ageing Mk 46 Fleet A Defence Equipment and Support transparency notice signals a direct award to BAE Surface Ships to take the Royal Navy's Sting Ray from Mod 1 to Mod 2, estimat… | WOME Intelligence |
| 6 Aug 2026 | Three Used Boats and a Build Rate: What AUKUS Now Actually Buys Australia The AUKUS defence ministers agreed on 30 May 2026 that Australia would acquire three in-service Virginia-class submarines in place of a mixture of new and in-s… | Defence Industrial Base |
| 4 Aug 2026 | Diehl and BAE Systems Move to Marry Guided 127 mm Ammunition to the Mk 45 Mod 4 Naval Gun Diehl Defence and BAE Systems signed a memorandum of understanding on 3 August 2026 to integrate Diehl long-range 127 mm ammunition with the Mk 45 Mod 4 naval… | Defence Industrial Base |
| 3 Aug 2026 | Sixty-Four Cells and No Named Shipyard: What the Rheinmetall GMF140 Is Actually Competing Against Rheinmetall unveiled the GMF140 on 3 August 2026: 140 m, over 6,000 tonnes, 64 strike-length VLS cells and AEGIS. Who builds the competing designs, whose order… | Defence Industrial Base |
| 30 Jul 2026 | Delivery Phase 4: The £8.4bn Contract That Takes Dreadnought From Steel to Sea Trials The Ministry of Defence committed £8.4 billion on 30 July 2026 to Delivery Phase 4 of the Dreadnought Class, £5.9 billion to BAE Systems and £2.5 billion to th… | Defence Industrial Base |
| 27 Jul 2026 | US Navy Funds US$49.7m Phalanx CIWS Sustainment Order The US Navy awarded Raytheon a US$49.7m sole-source order to repair 29 Phalanx CIWS part numbers, sustaining the 20mm last-ditch defence to 2032. | WOME Intelligence |
| 23 Jul 2026 | NATO SeaSparrow Consortium Funds ESSM Design-Agent Engineering to 2030 in $19m Raytheon Award Raytheon has won a $19m modification to sustain design-agent engineering for the Evolved SeaSparrow Missile across the 12-nation NATO SeaSparrow consortium. | NATO Procurement |
| 21 Jul 2026 | Russian Frigate Neustrashimy Fires Live Naval Gunnery Serial Off Plymouth on Burnham's First Day The Russian frigate Neustrashimy fired a 30-minute live naval gunnery serial in international waters about 40 nautical miles south of Plymouth on 20 July 2026,… | Operational Analysis |
| 16 Jul 2026 | Europe's Railgun Leaves the Laboratory: ISL Fires First Open-Range Kinetic Shot The French-German Institute of Saint-Louis fired its electromagnetic railgun in the open on 29 June 2026, sending a 25mm kinetic round beyond Mach 5. | WOME Intelligence |
| 12 Jul 2026 | Poland Relaunches Its 7.62mm and .338 Lapua Magnum Ammunition Tender After April Cancellation Poland's Armament Agency has relaunched its three-lot tender: 280,000 linked 7.62x51mm DA165 rounds for M134D miniguns, 45,000 rounds of .338 Lapua Magnum and… | NATO Procurement |
| 9 Jul 2026 | Germany Approves Four MEKO A-200 DEU (F128) Frigates, Resets After F126 Germany's budget committee approved four MEKO A-200 DEU (F128) frigates after cancelling the delayed, over-budget F126. ISC assesses the real NATO capability g… | NATO Procurement |
| 7 Jul 2026 | China Fires Submarine-Launched Ballistic Missile Into the Pacific as Joint Exercise With Russia Begins China's PLA Navy test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile into the Pacific on 6 July 2026, timed to the opening of its annual Joint Sea exercise with… | Operational Analysis |
| 1 Jul 2026 | Sweden's Visby-Class Stealth Corvettes: Baltic Firepower Meets the 2026 Air-Defence Upgrade | Operational Analysis |
| 29 Jun 2026 | Türkiye Delivers Its First Combat Warship Export to a NATO and EU Member: Romania's Hisar-Class Corvette Türkiye has delivered the Hisar-class corvette Rear-Admiral August Roman (261) to Romania, its first export of a combat-capable warship to an EU and NATO membe… | NATO Procurement |
| 25 Jun 2026 | Pyrophoric, not pyrotechnic: the $300m decoy-flare buy defending US aircraft A $300m US Army order for M211 pyrophoric decoys and MJU-series flares shows how aircraft infrared countermeasures are shifting to defeat modern imaging seeker… | WOME Intelligence |
| 24 Jun 2026 | Germany Scraps the F126: Europe's Largest Frigate Programme Hits the Cost Wall Germany has cancelled its F126 frigate programme after costs tracked past €18bn, writing off €2.3bn and switching to eight smaller MEKO A-200 hulls from TKMS. | NATO Procurement |
| 22 Jun 2026 | NSPA Bullfighter Decoy: Sole Source or Open Tender? NSPA's FBO 26LBS048 seeks 100 Rheinmetall Bullfighter 130mm RF/IR naval decoys by NSN, yet runs open competition. ISC explains the sole-source paradox. | NATO Procurement |
| 20 Jun 2026 | Collins Class: Australia's A$11bn Bridge to AUKUS Australia will spend up to A$11bn keeping its six ageing Collins-class submarines running into the 2040s, bridging the capability gap to the AUKUS nuclear flee… | Standards & Regulation |
| 18 Jun 2026 | France Folds Into NATO's War Plans France is folding its naval and air forces into NATO's regional war plans before the Ankara summit, even as SACEUR says Russia is not seeking a conflict. | WOME Intelligence |
| 14 Jun 2026 | US Navy Awards $45m Magazine-Maintenance Contract at Naval Weapons Station Crane The US Navy has awarded Krempp Construction a $45m indefinite-delivery contract for ammunition-magazine maintenance at Naval Weapons Station Crane, Indiana. | Defence Industrial Base |
| 14 Jun 2026 | General Dynamics Static-Tests a 4.75-inch Rocket Motor for the US Army Direct Support Fires Programme General Dynamics has completed static testing of 4.75-inch solid rocket motor prototypes for the US Army Direct Support Fires Technology low-cost rocket effort. | Defence Industrial Base |
| 13 Jun 2026 | NSPA 76mm HE-PFF FBO: The 4AP Fuze Decides NSPA FBO 26LBS050 seeks ~4,000 76mm L62 HE-PFF rounds compatible with the Leonardo 4AP fuze. ISC examines why the winner is decided organisationally, not techn… | NATO Procurement |
| 6 Jun 2026 | DragonFire: Britain's £316m Naval Laser, 2027 Britain's DragonFire laser won a £316m MBDA contract to arm Royal Navy Type 45 destroyers by 2027. Inside the £10-a-shot counter-drone case. | WOME Intelligence |
| 30 May 2026 | Japanese EOD Clears Okinawa Legacy ERW in Two Operations JGSDF and JMSDF EOD units cleared a 250 kg WWII aircraft bomb and 240 kg of mixed naval ordnance off Okinawa in a single day. | Explosive Safety |
| 18 May 2026 | US Navy Stands Up PAE Munitions to Drive Surge Production Department of the Navy created a Portfolio Acquisition Executive for Munitions on 11 May 2026 to accelerate naval ordnance production. Paul Mann serves as Inte… | WOME Intelligence |
| 7 May 2026 | Cruz Associates Wins $23M US Navy Energetics Development Modification US Navy modifies Cruz Associates contract by $22.96M for energetics development services at NSWC Indian Head and Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, keeping a crit… | Explosive Safety |
| 2 May 2026 | Raytheon ESSM Block 2 $833M Modification: Eleven-Nation FMS Coalition Replenishes NATO Naval SAM Stocks NAVSEA exercises $832,997,256 firm-fixed-price option on N00024-24-C-5408 for Raytheon ESSM Block 2 Guided Missile Assemblies and container requirements throug… | NATO Procurement |
| 24 Apr 2026 | Marinette to Govan: US Warship Manufacturing Lessons and the Twenty-Year UK Record Why US warship manufacturing failures, Constellation and the Zumwalt/LCS record: match the UK experience across Astute, Type 45, the Queen Elizabeth-class carr… | Defence Industrial Base |
| 24 Apr 2026 | Mogami, MT30 and Accountability: Australia’s Frigate Selection Tested Against the Design-Before-Steel Framework The Royal Australian Navy's selection of the upgraded Mogami-class and the Rolls-Royce MT30 is the live test of the Constellation-era design-before-steel frame… | NATO Procurement |
| 23 Apr 2026 | Hormuz Mine Clearance: Six-Month Pentagon Assessment Pentagon briefed Congress that clearing Iranian naval mines from the Strait of Hormuz could take six months. Technical assessment of Mahan 3, Maham-2 and EM-52… | Standards & Regulation |
| 20 Apr 2026 | NSPA Launches 127mm Naval Gun Ammunition Framework: FBO 26LBS024 NSPA Future Business Opportunity 26LBS024 signals a five-year outline agreement covering 15 NATO stock-numbered items for 127mm naval gun systems, encompassing… | WOME Intelligence |
| 20 Apr 2026 | Counting Hulls, Missing Navies: Why the Viral “Arab Naval Ranking 2026” Is a Methodology Failure A critical analysis of the widely shared LinkedIn ranking of Arab naval fleets for 2026. Raw vessel count inflates patrol-craft navies and deflates blue-water… | Operational Analysis |
| 16 Apr 2026 | The 157-Crew Decision: Why Manning Settled Norway’s Frigate Choice: and Now Strains the Royal Navy Norway’s selection of the Type 26 turned on a core crew of 157. Six months on, the programme’s success is reopening an older debate, whether the Royal Navy has… | WOME Intelligence |
| 10 Apr 2026 | CSIC Deep-Sea Mooring Sensor Recovered in Lombok Strait: China’s Passive Undersea Intelligence Network Expands Indonesian fisherman recovers a CSIC 710 Research Institute Deep-Sea Real-Time Transmission Mooring System in the Lombok Strait: a passive undersea sensor with… | Standards & Regulation |
| 9 Apr 2026 | Russian submarine operation exposed in UK waters by Royal Navy surveillance assets UK MoD confirms multi-week surveillance operation against Russian submarine incursion in High North waters near British territory. | WOME Intelligence |
| 12 Mar 2026 | Modern munitions factory planned for Portsmouth naval base UK Defence seeks to establish integrated Royal Navy, Army and RAF munitions manufacturing facility at Portsmouth, signalling strategic reinvestment in domestic… | Defence Industrial Base |
| 27 Feb 2026 | AI-driven metallurgy extends naval asset life in extreme environments Dstl and Swansea University are deploying machine learning to accelerate corrosion-resistant material design for maritime defence platforms. The collaboration… | Operational Analysis |