The two SANDOWN-class minehunters BLYTH and RAMSEY, which were decommissioned in Rosyth, Scotland, in mid-July, will move to the Black Sea after a short refit phase and reinforce the Ukrainian Navy. Both boats were in service with the Royal Navy for twenty years and were also the first boats to move to Bahrain to establish a permanent British mine defence component there. To the subscriptions...
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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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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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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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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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