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US Navy - Blast tests on the type ship of the Gerald R. Ford class

US Navy - Blast tests on the type ship of the Gerald R. Ford class

Gepostet von | 24 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

Advanced computer modelling methods are state of the art today, even in ship design - especially when it comes to the largest carrier ever built. At the end of the 18-month verification voyages, three blast tests on the Gerald-R. Ford class type ship were to show whether the art would pass the endurance test. Only when no marine mammals could be detected within a 3.5-mile radius by the spotter teams and aerial observers was the first attempt detonated on 18 June off the coast of Florida with an approximately 18-kiloton explosive charge as a full ship shock trial, which was recognised as an earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale.

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Spain - Cancellation of Russian destroyer KULAKOW

Spain - Cancellation of Russian destroyer KULAKOW

Gepostet von | 20 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

After the Spanish defence minister had provisionally agreed to the supply stopover of the destroyer VIZEADMIRAL KULAKOW (UDALOY class), which belongs to the Russian Northern Fleet, and its escort tug ALTAY in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the north coast of Morocco, which had been requested for the end of August, the foreign minister José Manuel Albares, who had just taken over in June, cancelled the project at short notice. He had not received an answer from Russia to his question about the association's further plans after the supply had been made - and immediately lowered the barrier of "goodwill" again. Two other points can also be seen as the background to this: Firstly, Madrid wants to give the autonomous enclave a somewhat...

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Turkmenistan - first corvette of the TURKMEN class put into service

Turkmenistan - first corvette of the TURKMEN class put into service

Gepostet von | 19 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

What began as a rumour at the start of 2019 has now become a reality: Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow has commissioned the first TURKMEN-class corvette, named DENIZ HAN, at the naval base on the eastern outskirts of Türkmenbaşy. Initially known as the C 92, the design from the two Istanbul shipyards Dearsan and Gülhan is a corvette just over 90 metres long and displacing 1600 tonnes with a Turkish Gökdeniz CIWS from Aselsan and a 76-millimetre cannon as its main armament. Now that was a lot of Turkish, but Dearsan is Turkmenistan's favourite naval shipyard and has already built 25 units of various sizes for the country. This type...

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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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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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