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Naval unit named after controversial politician

Naval unit named after controversial politician

Gepostet von | 1 Jan 2022 | , , | 0

The case of the VIRGINIA-class Block IV submarine USS NEW JERSEY, which is gender-neutral in its accommodation and hygiene areas (see news from 18 November 2021), is still going ahead, but some conservative politicians and commentators in the USA have gone too far: at the beginning of November, the US Navy named one of its new support units in San Diego after the mayor HARVEY MILK, who was murdered by a political rival in San Francisco in 1978. Milk had served as a naval diver for four years in the 1950s and also took part in the Korean War (1950-1953) until he was discharged from military service after it became known that he was homosexual. After that...

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New reconnaissance tool for the Armada

New reconnaissance tool for the Armada

Gepostet von | 30 Dec 2021 | , , | 0

Grupo CPS, a Spanish innovation forge in the south-west of Madrid, has shown the various areas of responsibility in the Armada - from the Admiral's Staff to the Air Flotilla and the Naval Armaments Department - the possibilities of a relatively simple RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System). Originally developed as a private initiative for the fishing industry to spot schools of fish and tuna from the air with minimal resources, the system can also be set up on any helicopter platform with a starter and fishing net. It can also be equipped with a task-specific sensor suite, which is already available in the CPS portfolio. On-board use On board the BAM P-46 FUROR (Buque...

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Combating marine targets in marginal seas - Blue Spear in Estonia

Combating marine targets in marginal seas - Blue Spear in Estonia

Gepostet von | 29 Dec 2021 | , , | 0

With the end of the Cold War, many countries around the Baltic Sea disbanded their coastal defence squadrons and scrapped their missiles. Not so the navy of the Russian Federation, which has continuously developed the weapon systems of its Baltic Fleet. Now it looks like this resource-saving method of combating sea targets in marginal seas is experiencing a renaissance: at the beginning of October, the Estonian Defence Investment Centre announced that it had signed a contract with Proteus Advanced Systems to purchase Blue Spear sea target missiles with a range of 300 kilometres for Estonian national defence. Good reasons - simple, practical, Baltic. The commander of the Estonian Navy, Commodore Jüri Saska, described the purchase...

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Sailboat and aircraft carrier - unequal meeting at sea

Sailboat and aircraft carrier - unequal meeting at sea

Gepostet von | 28 Dec 2021 | , , | 0

The news would have been lost in the noise: A Polish single-handed sailor had overlooked the French flagship! Or vice versa - which still needs to be clarified! The sequence of events According to the Préfecture Maritime de Méditerranée (Premarmed), the aircraft carrier CHARLES DE GAULLE was on a training voyage around 40 miles south-east of Toulon in mid-November when a 10-metre sailing yacht was spotted off the bow early in the morning at dusk in wind force 6. But by then it was already too late to take full evasive action. In the unavoidable collision (it couldn't have been more, judging by the pictures), the boat lost...

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Ukraine: Even more new recruits for the navy

Ukraine: Even more new recruits for the navy

Gepostet von | 28 Dec 2021 | , , | 0

On the day that British Defence Secretary Ben Wallace visited Ukraine in mid-November and signed an agreement to "develop the capabilities of Ukraine's naval forces", the Ukrainian Navy announced the arrival of two new coast guard boats. The two refurbished ex-ISLAND-class patrol boats of the US Coast Guard, which have been repainted from white to grey, were shipped as deck cargo from Baltimore/USA to Odessa in Ukraine. There are now four boats of the same type from a US delivery from 2019 already stationed there. The welcome message from the naval commander, Rear Admiral Alexey Neizhpapa, is very impressive: "The boats will soon be flying the flag of the Ukrainian Navy and...

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