Category: Marines from all over the world

Canada: Airspace encounters of the Chinese kind

Canada: Airspace encounters of the Chinese kind

Gepostet von | 22 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

When a Canadian Lockheed CP-140 Aurora, a version of the P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft, was on an eight-hour UN mission in international airspace over the East China Sea, a Chinese Chengdu J-10 closed to within five metres of its wings, while a Shenyang J-16 kept to the sidelines. The Aurora was flying in an area close to Chinese airspace to monitor ship movements while enforcing the oil embargo against North Korea. These flights are regularly "welcomed" by Chinese air force units - even several times during a mission - but rarely so aggressively. Because on the last approach, even...

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Chile: Ocean-going tugs for the Antarctic

Chile: Ocean-going tugs for the Antarctic

Gepostet von | 21 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

The trend towards equipping navies with high-performance standard support vessels from the civilian sector is continuing around the globe. After Chile decommissioned its deep-sea tug Lautaro at the beginning of 2022, an adequate replacement had to be found quickly to maintain national connections along the 4000 kilometres of coastline and on to the Antarctic regions and stations of Chile. They found what they were looking for in the Netherlands and purchased the offshore supply vessel/tug Havila Neptune, built in 2007 in Leirvik near Bergen in Norway, which can carry a further 2500 tonnes with a displacement of around 3000 tonnes. After a technical refit and colour change from...

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Brazil: Here we go - nuclear-powered submarine

Brazil: Here we go - nuclear-powered submarine

Gepostet von | 20 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

They really want to do it now! A series of four conventional submarines of the Riachuelo class (modified Scorpène class, 75 m, 1900 tonnes) is currently under construction at the state shipyard in Itaguai. Building on this design, the Alvaro Alberto da Motta e Silva attack submarine (SN-BR), three times the size, is now being built with a nuclear propulsion system. As a strategic industrial programme, the Brazilian construction project Prosub is to deliver a single prototype of the SN-BR, which already provides 1500 jobs and is expected to generate 24,000 direct jobs and 40,000 supply jobs in the future. South of the equator, where there are...

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Azerbaijan: Russian navy visits Baku

Azerbaijan: Russian navy visits Baku

Gepostet von | 19 Dec 2023 | , | 0

Certainly planned for a long time, but nevertheless to be seen in the context of the invasion of the Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan: an informal friendly visit by the frigate Tatarstan to the harbour of Bakú, the capital of Azerbaijan. Even if only for two days with an emphatically culturally guided tour of the city and a football match, it was an unmistakable signal from Moscow shortly after the military intervention and the expulsion of the ethnic Armenian inhabitants of the region. The FK frigates Tatarstan and Dagestan are two variants of the Gepard class (project 11661, 102 m, 2000 tonnes), which were planned in the early 1990s as the successor to the Koni class, mainly for export. From...

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Argentina: Maritime surveillance with Norwegian P3 Orion

Argentina: Maritime surveillance with Norwegian P3 Orion

Gepostet von | 18 Dec 2023 | , | 0

The Argentinian navy has already been able to significantly expand its maritime surveillance capabilities with the purchase of the four French Adroit OPVs alone. In order to complete this further, Argentina is now purchasing four Lockheed P-3C/Ns that have been decommissioned in Norway for around 60 million euros. The P-3N, which is equipped more for Norwegian SAR tasks, differs from the three P-3C sub-hunting aircraft in terms of the sensors installed - but none of them will be allowed to keep their NATO-compatible data link systems. Argentina hopes to be able to procure such systems elsewhere. The USA agreed to this transfer, just as it agreed to the transfer of 24 Danish F-16 Fighting Falcons for the Argentinian air force...

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