At the end of August, the Russian Navy in Dagestan on the Caspian Sea commissioned the fifth boat of the Karakurt class (project 22800, small missile ship), the "Amur", equipped with eight Kalibr cruise missiles. The "Amur" is already equipped with the navalised Pantsir-M air defence system, a six-barrel 30mm calibre rotary cannon with eight FK 57E6 short-range anti-aircraft missiles (reload: 32)....
At the beginning of the war against Ukraine, the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation had six conventional submarines of the Varshavyanka class (Project 636.3, Improved Kilo). Two boats ("Novorossiysk", "Krasnodar") were transferred to the Mediterranean before the start of the war and have not yet been able to return to the Black Sea, while "Rostov-on-Don" was lost in Sevastopol in September 2023 by...
Amid tense anticipation of a retaliatory response to Israel's assassination of the leader of the Islamist Hamas movement in Tehran, the commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Divisional General Hosein Salami, announced on the nearby Tasnim portal that he had just delivered over 2,600 new missiles, drones and other equipment to his elite IRGC-N...
Not only does the virus come from Wuhan, deep in the interior of the country, but a considerable number of ship designs are also being built in the shipyards on the Yangtze River. Following a launch in May, which took place without publicity, satellite images of a submarine construction previously unknown in the navy of the Chinese PLA were discovered there in July. In terms of...
A good 200 years ago, two ships sank in a storm off Denmark. Today, a remarkable museum in Thorsminde commemorates the many dead - and the dangers of the Danish west coast. In mid-December 1811, Vice-Admiral Sir James Saumarez, commander-in-chief of the British fleet in the Baltic Sea, made a fatal decision that he later...
The US and Japanese navies planned to conduct joint mine-clearing exercises last week until a fire broke out on the JS "Ukushima" (Sugashima-class, MSC-686) on 10 November 2024. The ship was on its way to the joint exercise, according to a spokesperson for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force on Tuesday. The fire...
Millions of people are directly dependent on a well-functioning marine ecosystem - and many more indirectly. The global fight against illegal fishing is an important element in preserving this basis of life. Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUUF) poses a significant problem for the marine ecosystem.
After the first satellite images in mid-2023 and later photos in November from the Liaoning shipyard in north-east China, it was clear that a new type of ship was under construction. A maiden voyage took place in May this year and further photos were taken this summer, leaving room for conjecture and speculation. It is...
The F200 "Tamandaré" frigate (107 metres, 3,500 tonnes), which was built by the Consorcio Aguas Azuis consortium, a 2020 merger of thyssenkrupp Marine Systems, Embraer Defence & Security and Atech, was the first of four ships for the Brazilian Navy at the Oceana shipyard in...
The destroyer "Sydney", the third and final unit of the Australian Hobart class (147 metres, 6,300 tonnes), which was further developed from the Spanish F100 Alvaro de Bazán frigate and commissioned in 2020, is "one of a kind". In addition to two quadruple Harpoon missile launchers, the "Sydney" is an air defence destroyer with a 48-cell vertical launch silo and a mix of standard...
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