Category: Marines from all over the world

Four billion for a frigate?

Four billion for a frigate?

Gepostet von | 5 Feb 2025 | , , | 3

The Australian Hunter-class frigate programme: costs out of control? The Australian Hunter-class frigate programme is facing a financial crisis. The planned nine ships have been reduced to six, but the costs are rising dramatically and are exceeding the original budget. The Australian Hunter-class frigate programme is spiralling out of control as construction costs continue to rise. Australia's future "Global Combat Ship", the Hunter-class frigates, are based on the Type 26 developed in the UK by BAE Systems. These ships were intended to be one of the most efficient combat vessels in the world, but the budget planning is getting increasingly out of control. The budget had earmarked 2.5 billion euros per ship...

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Australia: NVL divests itself of the "Arafura"

Australia: NVL divests itself of the "Arafura"

Gepostet von | 31 Jan 2025 | , , | 0

It is called "Project Sea 1180" and comprises six (optionally twelve) OPVs of 80 metres in length and 1,700 tonnes displacement - ordered from Naval Vessels Lürssen (NVL). The Arafura class was developed from the Darussalam OPV built for Brunei. Two boats were to be built at Osborne in Adelaide on the south-east coast and the other four at Civmec in Henderson/Perth in the west with technology transfer from Lürssen. Civmec was chosen as the Australian subcontractor, even though Australia would have preferred to see Austal in the job. After the project was severely delayed and the project was classified as a "project of concern" at the end of 2023, the...

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Energetic growth of Taiwanese underwater capabilities

Energetic growth of Taiwanese underwater capabilities

Gepostet von | 8 Jan 2025 | , , | 0

The submarine component of the Taiwanese navy currently consists of two boats from the Dutch Zwaardvis-class replica programme from the 1980s, not counting the two American Guppy-class boats from the Second World War era. Following the decision in 2014 to launch its own four-year development programme for six conventional 1,500-tonne Hai Kun-class (Narwhal) boats in the face of insufficient offers from the USA and Italy, the CSBC (China State Shipbuilding Corporation) in Kaohsiung (south-west coast) set up the necessary infrastructure. The newly elected President Tsai Ing-wen commissioned the construction of the prototype back in 2016. This was derived from the previous...

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Russian Karakurt class - progress is being made

Russian Karakurt class - progress is being made

Gepostet von | 7 Jan 2025 | , , | 0

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). The keel was laid seven years ago at the Zelenodolsky shipyard near Kazan in Tatarstan, deep in the centre of Russia. The programme is running slowly due to problems with the production of the propulsion systems, admitted the commander, Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev, during his visit to the Caspian Flotilla - but things are progressing! Construction number 1...

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