Category: Marines from all over the world

Thailand: Renunciation of Chinese submarine

Thailand: Renunciation of Chinese submarine

Gepostet von | 28 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

A correction first: In issue 10-23, it was stated that submarines made in Sweden are also used in Australia and Japan. This is only true insofar as Australia used the Swedish Kockums design to build its six COLLINS-class boats in its own shipyards - Japan only used the Swedish licence for its ten SOROYU-class boats so that it could build the Stirling engine for the air-independent propulsion system itself. So, that was necessary - now to the actual news from East Asia. In May 2017, Thailand acquired a conventional Chinese submarine of the S 26T class (export version of the YUAN class, 78 metres, 3600...

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Taiwan: New technology for coastal defence

Taiwan: New technology for coastal defence

Gepostet von | 27 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

The navy of the small island nation off the coast of the hungry dragon is investing in WAM-V technology (wave adaptive modular vessels) from the American company Ocean Power Technologies in order to better monitor its subsurface waters. Concealed explosive ordnance on the seabed poses a threat to the island that is difficult to detect and which these platforms are designed to counter. Two points are of interest here: These WAM-Vs operate autonomously and emission-free, either individually or as a swarm - and they utilise a technology as a sensor platform that is worth presenting here, even if it has already been on the market for a few years.

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Russia: Test firing of a Borei-class intercontinental ballistic missile

Russia: Test firing of a Borei-class intercontinental ballistic missile

Gepostet von | 26 Dec 2023 | , , | 1

Just a few days after Russia's president signed a law in early November withdrawing from the international treaty to stop nuclear tests, the Russian Navy demonstrated its nuclear deterrent potential: a nuclear-capable Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile was fired from the newly commissioned nuclear submarine Imperator Alexander III over a distance of 5,600 kilometres into a target area on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the White Sea. The first test of this weapon system in over a year may be regarded as the final proof of function for the Borei-class submarines, but it has been recognised in the official state narrative as an indication of the functionality of the core element of the Borei...

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Norway: Mine defence with autonomous platforms

Norway: Mine defence with autonomous platforms

Gepostet von | 25 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

The Scandinavian coastal state is well on the way to shifting previously boat-based mine defence into the realm of unmanned forces. They are calling it the next generation of mine hunting and are spending half a billion euros on it: the Royal Norwegian Navy and the Kongsberg Group are currently developing low-emission, hybrid-powered, autonomous platforms using cutting-edge space, quantum and hypersonic technologies, which are to make the difference when connected to artificial intelligence. Sensational at first glance, of course, but at second glance nothing different from what the Royal Navy is doing with the Arcims UPS developed by Atlas Elektronik. Perhaps these UPSs will then transmit the underwater situation report from the...

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UK: Multi Role Ocean Surveillance Ship for Seabed Warfare

UK: Multi Role Ocean Surveillance Ship for Seabed Warfare

Gepostet von | 22 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

At the beginning of the year, the Royal Navy acquired the offshore supply/construction vessel TANGAROA TOPAZ and had it refitted and repainted at Cammell Laird in Birkenhead near Liverpool as its first multi-role ocean surveillance ship. It was now commissioned in mid-October under the name RFA PROTEUS as a multi-role ocean surveillance ship with the task of seabed warfare. The Royal Navy has not yet made a clear statement on the deployment concept. Is it only to be deployed reactively in the event of suspicious incidents and to repair damage to critical infrastructure? Or is it to be used proactively and as a deterrent by being present in the sea area and deploying its new equipment...

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