Twelve new Mine Countermeasures Vessels (MCMVs) are being built to replace the Tripartite-class MCMV. The programme is a joint Dutch-Belgian procurement and a contract was awarded to Belgium Naval ...

In recent weeks, the Belgian Navy successfully conducted the first training flights of the Skeldar V-200 unmanned helicopter ...

Belgium continues to use the SeeTrack mission planning, monitoring and post-mission analysis tool on its autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) fleet. The Belgian Navy has renewed its licence to use the ...

The Vlissingen, the second of the series of mine countermeasures vessels (MCM) of the Belgian-Dutch rMCM program, first intended for the Royal Netherlands Navy, has commenced sea trials.The ...

Belgica, the new oceanographic research vessel being built by Freire Shipyard for the Belgium Navy, arrived in Belgium on 14 December. (Jorn Urbain/Belgian MoD) The Belgian Navy's new multi-purpose ...

A keel laying ceremony for the first of 12 new MCMVs being built for the BE/NL next-generation offboard MCM programme took place at Piriou shipyard in Concarneau, France on 30 November. (Belgian MoD) ...

Navies operate on a spectrum between deterrence and defense, to include offensive operation, support of foreign policy, and power projection to civil affair and humanitarian assistance and disaster ...

A Schiebel CAMCOPTER S-100 surveillance drone hovers near a military vessel. (Courtesy of Schiebel) COLOGNE, Germany ― The Belgian Navy has finished a weekslong series of test flights with Schiebel’s ...

KARLSKOGA, Sweden--(BUSINESS WIRE)--BAE Systems has been selected to supply 12 Bofors 40 Mk4 naval guns to the Belgian and Dutch navies as part of the Mine Counter Measures Vessels (MCMV) program. The ...

The Belgian navy disarmed an unexploded British shell from World War I that a Belgian dredger sucked up Wednesday while working in the North Sea. The navy said no one was injured, and the dredger ...

Hydroid Inc., a Bourne-based manufacturer of autonomous underwater vehicles, or AUVs, said that the Belgian Navy is adding two of the company’s AUVs to its fleet. One Hydroid AUV model is the REMUS ...

The Skeldar V-200, the new unmanned helicopter of the Belgian Navy, completed its first training flights at the Ursel ...