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On 16 December 2022, the Japanese Ministry of Defense released its Defense Buildup Program [] guidance, which noted that the Japanese Maritime Self Defense Force planned to replace its fleet of older, less capable destroyers and Abukuma-class destroyer escorts with Mogami-class frigates.
Modern warships are generally divided into seven main categories, which are: aircraft carriers, cruisers, [a] destroyers, frigates, corvettes, submarines, and amphibious warfare ships. Battleships comprise an eighth category, but are not in current service with any navy in the world.
With the decision in 1983 to build a new class of submarine to carry the Trident missile system, the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) ran an open competition for the command system. Up to that point all Royal Navy (RN) ships and submarines had command systems built by Ferranti using custom-built electronics and specialised proprietary processors.
During the 2010s there was a shift toward the production and introduction of modern light units to begin to replace large numbers of obsolescent corvettes, missile boats and mine counter-measures ships from the Soviet-era.
Cold War - Modern 100 mm (3.9 in) AK-100 Naval gun Soviet Union: Cold War - Modern 102 mm (4.0 in) 102mm 60 caliber Pattern 1911 Russian Empire: 1911 - 1980 102 mm (4.0 in) Bofors 10,2 cm submarine anti air gun L/35 Sweden: Interwar - World War II 102 mm (4.0 in) Bofors 10,2 cm naval anti air gun L/50 Sweden: Interwar - World War II
Napoléon (1850), the world's first steam-powered battleship. A ship of the line was a large, unarmored wooden sailing ship which mounted a battery of up to 120 smoothbore guns and carronades, which came to prominence with the adoption of line of battle tactics in the early 17th century and the end of the sailing battleship's heyday in the 1830s.
The Kashin class, Soviet designation Project 61, were series of anti-aircraft guided-missile destroyers built for the Soviet Navy since the 1960s. As of 2020, no ships remain in service with the Russian Navy, but three modified ships continue in service with the Indian Navy as Rajput-class destroyers.
Warship is a British television drama series produced by the BBC and broadcast from 1973 to 1977. The series was set contemporaneously and depicted life on board the fictitious Royal Navy frigate HMS Hero .