Category: Marines from all over the world

UK: Multi Role Ocean Surveillance Ship for Seabed Warfare

UK: Multi Role Ocean Surveillance Ship for Seabed Warfare

Posted by | 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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Canada: Airspace encounters of the Chinese kind

Canada: Airspace encounters of the Chinese kind

Posted by | 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

Posted by | 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

Posted by | 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

Posted by | 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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