Formidable Shield 2025: Allied Navies Fired Against Ballistic and Drone Targets for Three Weeks
The May 2025 live-fire exercise, led by U.S. 6th Fleet and STRIKFORNATO, tested allied air and missile defense from May 3 to May 23, 2025.
Maritime News
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Navy Backed Its Mine-Hunting Drones With a $100 Million Upgrade Award in April 2025
NAVSEA's April 2025 award to Textron Systems funds software and payload integration on the MCM USV, the unmanned craft at the center of the Navy's mine countermeasure transition.
The Navy's FY2026 Budget Put Unmanned Surface Vessels in the Shipbuilding Line
The June 2025 request carried roughly 27.2 billion dollars for seventeen battle force ships, with the Large Unmanned Surface Vessel program at the center of the unmanned debate.
Operation Aspides: How the EU's Red Sea Escort Mission Reached Mid-2025
The EU's Aspides force launched on February 19, 2024, and by July 2025 its warships had downed more than twenty drones and missiles while escorting merchant traffic.
Houthi Attacks Sank Two Bulk Carriers in the Southern Red Sea in July 2025
The Magic Seas and Eternity C were struck and sunk within seventy-two hours in July 2025, the first fatal attacks on Red Sea merchant shipping in about a year.