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Iran supplies missile speedboats to Venezuela

Venezuela - Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's close relations with the Iranian rulers are bearing fruit: although they are small, the two PEYKAAP III missile speedboats are not entirely without bite. One visit from the Iranian naval grouping circumnavigating the western world at the beginning of the year, and Venezuela already has the destabilising pinprick platforms with sea target FC, which were presented to the public as GOLETA EMPRENDEDORA and GOLETA INDEPENDENCIA at the end of July to mark the 200th anniversary of the Armada Bolivariana de Venezuela. They are 17 metres long and, at 14 tonnes, are real lightweights. Their two sea targets, FK Kowsar or Nasr, fly at subsonic speed and have a maximum...

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America's destroyer JACK H. LUCAS completes acceptance tests

USA - The future JACK H. LUCAS, America's newest ARLEIGH-BURKE class destroyer, completed its acceptance trials before the Board of Inspection and Survey at the end of May. The LUCAS is the first unit of the third batch of this ship class, which has been built for 35 years. It has been repeatedly equipped with the latest systems and is at the cutting edge of technology. The centrepiece of Flight III is the AN/SPY-6 air surveillance and air defence radar, in addition to improvements to the power generation and cooling systems. DDG 125 will be commissioned shortly, and the next four destroyers are already awaiting commissioning at Huntington Ingalls Industries in Newport News, Virginia.

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Uruguay orders new coastal boats for the navy

Uruguay - 30 years ago, Germany helped the Uruguayan navy with numerous ships and boats from the German surplus stock, thus ensuring that it had reasonably operational material. For some years now, the second life of these units has clearly been used up. The country needs new ships! Now, in mid-July, after 15 years of half-hearted searching and some extremely controversial offers from China to take over a few of the cheap JIANGDAO corvettes (type 056), then the proposal to purchase Norwegian NORDKAPP-class coast guard vessels, which are ice-capable but completely worn out after 40 years but even cheaper, a lonely decision was made by the Minister of Defence, Javier García:...

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Spanish transport ship sunk during Sinkex manoeuvre

Spain - The transport ship MARTIN POSADILLO (75 m, 2200 t), built in northern Spain in 1973 as a civilian ship for internal Spanish island traffic, bought by the Spanish army in 1990 and operated by the Armada since the turn of the millennium, was to be given an honourable end in service after almost 50 years at sea: as a target ship in the Spanish Navy's 2023 Sinkex manoeuvre off the Canary Islands at the end of June. The newly commissioned submarine S-81 ISAAC PERAL was actually supposed to release a premiere torpedo and send the transporter with the classic lines to the bottom of the sea, but things turned out differently: in the end, the submarine was allowed to...

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Russia strengthens Black Sea fleet with Karakurt-class ships

Russia - The 18-boat construction programme of Project 22800, the KARAKURT class (60 m, 800 t), currently stands at 16 units laid down, four of which are in service, two are undergoing trials, five have been launched and five are under construction. Following the commissioning of one of the small missile ships for the Baltic Fleet at the end of 2018, 2019 and 2020, the fourth has now followed: At the Zaliv naval shipyard in Kerch on the island of Crimea, the ZYKLON, the first naval vessel in years, was put into service in mid-July. With ASKOLD (undergoing trials) and AMUR (launched at the end of...

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