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Spanish Navy - Old style sherry

Spanish Navy - Old style sherry

Gepostet von | 19 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

The sailing training ship Juan Sebastian Elcano returned to its home port of Cadiz in mid-June from its 93rd training voyage abroad and eleventh circumnavigation. Due to the worsening coronavirus situation in the country, the ship arrived a month earlier than planned. As a traditional welcome to the crew, the Spanish King Felipe VI spent the last night on board before entering the harbour - at anchor in the Gulf of Cadiz. For ten months, the crew (200) and cadet crew (20) worked and lived exclusively on board the four-masted square-rigged schooner because no shore leave was allowed due to the strictest precautionary measures against infection with the virus. However, the first vaccinations were also...

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Changing of the guard: Minehunting boat "Bad Bevensen" replaces "Homburg"

Changing of the guard: Minehunting boat "Bad Bevensen" replaces "Homburg"

Gepostet von | 19 Oct 2021 | , , | 1

On Thursday, 21 October 2021, the minehunting boat "Bad Bevensen" will leave its home port of Kiel at 10 am. The boat will be part of NATO's Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 (SNMCMG 1) for the coming months. She replaces the "Homburg", which had already left Kiel on 14 July. Under the command of Corvette Captain Christopher Fenske (37), the 42-strong crew will set sail for Cuxhaven to join the NATO organisation there. The first part of the approximately six-month deployment will take the "Bad Bevensen" to the Baltic Sea. After a break at the turn of the year, the...

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Mexican Navy - New and old

Mexican Navy - New and old

Gepostet von | 18 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

Since the beginning of June, the TABASCO, the eighth, newest and completely Mexican-built OPV of the 1700-tonne displacement OAXACA class, has also had its rightful crew and flies the service flag of the Central American state. At the same time, however, the CORA was decommissioned, an American-designed ocean-going tugboat that was given a well-deserved retirement at almost 80 years of age (34 years in the US Navy, 44 years in Mexico) and with its top speed reduced to 10 knots. Sometimes a window into the past opens. To the subscriptions...

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Israeli Navy - 3D technology for construction of new corvettes

Israeli Navy - 3D technology for construction of new corvettes

Gepostet von | 18 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

As the final step before a construction contract, Israel Shipyards has signed a contract to commence the detailed design phase for the new RESHEF-class SA'AR 72 corvettes at the Ministry of Defence. The design will utilise 3D technology, which can reduce the usual paperwork of 2D drawings in shipbuilding to a minimum. This class is to replace the SA'AR 45-class units, which have now been in the coastal defence service of the Israeli Navy for over 30 years. The boat type is to be equipped exclusively with systems from national production To the subscriptions...

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Brazilian Navy - "GREENHALGH has fulfilled its mission"

Brazilian Navy - "GREENHALGH has fulfilled its mission"

Gepostet von | 18 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

As the lead ship of the British South Atlantic Task Force during the Falklands War in 1982, HMS BROADSWORD (Type 22) made headlines. On 25 May, she was unable to prevent Argentine Skyhawks from hitting and capsizing the frigate COVENTRY (Type 42) with unguided bombs during the landing operation in San Carlos Bay on Pebble Island with her Sea Wolf low-flying defence system. The first group of Skyhawks flew so close that the BROADSWORD's fire control system crashed when both aircraft split, and when the second group approached, the COVENTRY had manoeuvred itself into the direct line of fire of the Sea Wolfs! Even from the first squadron by a bomb penetration in the...

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