Category: Armed Forces

Uruguay orders new coastal boats for the navy

Uruguay orders new coastal boats for the navy

Posted by | 28 Sep 2023 | , , , | 0

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

Spanish transport ship sunk during Sinkex manoeuvre

Posted by | 27 Sep 2023 | , , , | 0

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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French Naval Group seeks partnership with Philippines for submarine modernisation

French Naval Group seeks partnership with Philippines for submarine modernisation

Posted by | 26 Sep 2023 | , , , | 0

Following the cancellation of the Australian submarine contract, the French Naval Group is turning to new potential customers. This time, the state-owned defence contractor senses an opportunity in the Philippines. The island state has just painstakingly freed itself from America's almost eternal grip. Now, however, with its weak and outdated armed forces, it sees itself exposed as the first island in the face of the aggressive territorial and power claims of the Chinese armed forces and their paramilitary organisations in the South China Sea. However, one can only assert one's own legitimate and internationally recognised territorial claims through a robust maritime presence. Inexplicably, the Philippine navy tends to compensate for its weakness in the surface area by building up...

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India and Vietnam against Chinese advance

India and Vietnam against Chinese advance

Posted by | 22 Sep 2023 | , , , | 0

In order to contain China's advance in the Indo-Pacific zone, India handed over the Kirpan, an FK corvette of the Khukri class (91 m, 1500 tonnes), to the Vietnamese navy. This was preceded by a USD 100 million loan, which Vietnam used to buy twelve high-speed coast guard boats in India, and a mutual agreement on the exchange of personnel and the joint use of military logistics and infrastructure. These are both fundamentally new aspects of Southeast Asian integration in the region. Chinese units are increasingly appearing off Vietnam's coast to back up unlawful territorial claims. In the Indian hinterland, Chinese troops are deployed in the Kashmir region and in the neighbouring countries of Myanmar, Sri Lanka and Pakistan, large-scale Chinese port construction...

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Light at the end of the tunnel

Light at the end of the tunnel

Posted by | 20 Sep 2023 | , , , , | 1

The time for downsizing seems to be over in Operational Flotilla 2. The challenges of the future can be mastered with new ships and modern systems. Operational Flotilla 2 in Wilhelmshaven is the largest operational unit in the German Navy. The frigates assigned to it are the platforms with the broadest spectrum of capabilities, operational areas and components to be organically integrated. The same applies to the associated support platforms. The resulting range of operational requirements has always meant that the material has always required constant further development and regeneration in order to fulfil the respective requirements of modern operations and prevent obsolescence. Conversely, this...

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