Navantia Lays the Keel of Royal Moroccan Navy’s OPV
Spanish Navantia Shipyard, on September 6, performed the keel laying of the Royal Moroccan Navy’s Avante 1800 class offshore patrol vessel.
Avante News
Navy / Maritime
Navy / Maritime
Navantia's Vessels for Saudi Arabia
Saudi Arabia inked an MoU with Spanish Navantia Shipyard. The agreement involves warship construction.
Navy / Maritime
Navantia’s Avante Corvette of the Saudi Navy at Sea Trials
The first of five Avante 2200 corvettes being built for the Royal Saudi Naval Forces has begun sea trials, according to Spanish shipbuilder Navantia (RSNF).
Global Defence Trend Brief
- 09:00 NATO pushes allies to fill US air and naval capability gaps - Washington is pressing European allies and Canada to provide more manned and unmanned aircraft plus...
- 09:00 AI-driven drone swarms rise as a new NATO planning priority - NATO officials are warning that AI-enabled drone swarms could reshape warfare within five years, pus...
- 09:00 Counter-drone demand expands beyond battlefields into critical infrastructure - Growing drone incursions around airports, ports, oil facilities and data centres are accelerating de...
- 09:00 Europe’s loyal wingman race becomes a core airpower trend - Collaborative combat aircraft took centre stage at Berlin Airshow 2026 as European companies and air...
- 09:00 Ukraine’s drone combat know-how is becoming an export asset in Asia - Ukrainian drone firms are marketing battlefield-proven systems and swarm concepts in Japan, Taiwan a...
- 09:00 NATO accelerates live testing of counter-drone technologies - Alliance members and industry partners are expanding field trials of drone detection and interceptio...
- 09:00 Hypersonic threats keep driving demand for persistent tracking networks - The spread of hypersonic weapons continues to push Western defence planners toward integrated radar...
- 09:00 Military space resilience shifts toward larger distributed constellations - Armed forces are increasingly favouring proliferated satellite constellations over a small number of...
- 09:00 Autonomous maritime systems gain importance in surveillance and strike planning - Navies are broadening interest in autonomous surface and underwater systems for persistent ISR, infr...
- 09:00 Industrial surge capacity is becoming a decisive defence metric - Across missiles, drones and air defence, governments are placing more weight on production scalabili...
