The new anti-ship missile, the AS-21, has entered service and has been deployed to units on Aquaworld and Austini 55. The missile replaces the AS-6 which was a veteran of the Clone Wars (indeed it saw action against DDS ships during the First Clone War) and was pretty obsolete. The new AS-21 has longer range, much better guidance and terminal phase countermeasures to evade CIWS and other ship defences. One missile prematurely fired in a hangar on Aquaworld (no one was killed) though this has been found to be because of sabotage.
The HCS Navy on Cloneworld have yet to deploy the missile as it is incompatible with the F-40N, the Navy's fleet of fighters will require updates to their databus architecture and pylons to use the missile, this will be carried out over the next few months during scheduled maintenance. The missile is compatible with F-45As and late model F-40s.
Staying with the Navy, it's backbone fleet of Triona OPVs will receive an update over the next couple of years during scheduled refits. Improvements in the programme known as Triona M1 include hull modifications to improve blue water seakeeping, replacing the SAM with the SA-N-6B, updating the radars and other improvements.
Moving into space the hull has been laid down for the first Shark frigate, construction is expected to take around 6 months with flight trials taking another 3-4 months. The HCS Space Navy are hopeful of the first Shark entering service in the late summer of 2108 and having 4 in service by the end of the year. However ships are being withdrawn faster than the Shark can be produced to replace them. The last 5 Kalahati Tuul Bs have been removed from service into reserve and will be scrapped early next year. To help fill the gaps 6 of the oldest Kalahati Tuul 2s are to receive a minor refit to keep them in operation for a couple of more years.
