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30 years in the service of the navy

30 years in the service of the navy

Gepostet von | 28 Oct 2024 | , , | 0

The "red eagle" is the oldest combat ship of the German Navy On 19 October, the crew of the frigate "Brandenburg" celebrated the ship's 30th birthday together with representatives of the state of Brandenburg, the circle of friends, relatives and friends. After her keel laying and christening in 1992, the frigate Brandenburg was not only the first frigate of the 123 class, but also the type ship of the class that gave it its name, commissioned on 14 October 1994. A lot has happened since then: with a good 660,000 nautical miles - a distance equivalent to around 1,220,000 kilometres - the frigate has circumnavigated the world around 30 times. In the process, the men visited...

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F 126 - Report

F 126 - Report

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A watershed project - for the navy, for procurement, for industry The largest shipbuilding project in the history of the Bundeswehr to date is the class 126 frigate. The Niedersachsen class is a defence project for six ships, with 5.27 billion euros already budgeted for the first four. The "F 126" defence technology report describes what the ship is to be capable of and who is building, equipping and planning it. The operational and security policy derivation as well as the expected utilisation in the navy are explained. With a foreword by the Inspector of the Navy. Report Frigate F126...

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Russia: Combat icebreaker undergoing sea trials

Russia: Combat icebreaker undergoing sea trials

Gepostet von | 28 Oct 2024 | , , | 0

On 25 October 2019, the first of two planned units of a new ship class known as "combat icebreakers" (Project 23550) or ice-capable multi-purpose patrol vessels was launched at the Admiralty Shipyard in St. Petersburg. The "Ivan Papanin" began sea trials at the end of June 2024. The 114 metre long, 18 metre wide, 8,500 tonne displacement, diesel-electric powered platforms can be used as armed patrol vessels, tugs and icebreakers (0.5 metre ice). They are equipped with Kalibr-NK cruise missiles (ship-to-ship, ship-to-shore, underwater ship-to-shore) and with a 76.2 mm cannon (AK-176), two pick-up stations for Raptor speedboats and a helicopter hangar to accommodate a Ka-27...

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Wolgast: Unscheduled shipyard time for an "old treasure"

Wolgast: Unscheduled shipyard time for an "old treasure"

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The workhorse of the Leibnitz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), the research vessel "Elisabeth Mann Borgese", had sudden technical problems with the steering gear and stabilisers and had to be taken to the Peene shipyard in Wolgast for an unscheduled repair. The ship was built in 1986 at the former Kröger shipyard in Schacht-Audorf near Rendsburg in Schleswig-Holstein and the steering gear is still original. It was necessary to find specialists who were still familiar with the technology, as a retired shipbuilder had already been activated in the past who was still able to use a certain hand-polishing process. The ship was docked for maintenance work at the beginning of the year and it had to be...

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