Kalaat Beni-Abbes Class

Qatar is expected to sign a letter of agreement with Italy on Thursday for the planned purchase of four corvettes, a support vessel and two missile boats from Italian shipyard Fincantieri. The deal would be worth almost €5 billion, or $5.6 billion, a source knowledgeable of the deal told Defense News, and include missiles supplied by MBDA as well […]

Italian shipbuilding firm Fincantieri has delivered the new Kalaat Beni-Abbes amphibious vessel to the Algerian Navy at its Muggiano Shipyard. Commissioned in 2011 by the Ministry of Defence of the People’s Democratic Republic of Algeria, the 143m-long, BDSL class landing platform dock (LPD) vessel is powered by two diesel engines that allow it to cruise […]