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Aircraft carrier off Crete - French visit to Souda Bay

Aircraft carrier off Crete - French visit to Souda Bay

Gepostet von | 15 Apr 2025 | , , | 0

The French aircraft carrier "Charles de Gaulle" is currently on its way back to its home port of Toulon after a four-month deployment in the Indo-Pacific. After travelling through the Red Sea and passing through the Suez Canal, it made a stopover in Souda Bay on the north side of the island of Crete. The nuclear-powered French carrier (260 x 64 metres, 42,500 tonnes), which entered service 23 years ago, carries 22 Dassault Rafale fighter aircraft as well as Grumman E-2 Hawkeye reconnaissance aircraft for air surveillance and Eurocopter AS-565 Panther helicopters for rescue and anti-submarine warfare missions. During his deployment off Southeast Asia, he was accompanied by a...

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Dutch frigate fires first Tomahawk missile

Dutch frigate fires first Tomahawk missile

Gepostet von | 14 Apr 2025 | , , | 1

On 12 March 2025, the Royal Netherlands Navy frigate "De Ruyter" test-fired a Tomahawk cruise missile off the coast of Norfolk/Virginia before the missile system is put into service in the Netherlands. With this test, the navy is gathering the necessary information to fire the Tomahawks from the four air defence and commando frigates of the De Zeven Provinciën class, according to the Dutch Ministry of Defence. This will give the Royal Netherlands Navy additional combat power. This will help to deter potential opponents if strategic targets deep inland can be eliminated. Depending on the version, the cruise missiles have a range of up to 2,500 kilometres. The four frigates of the...

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Italian naval jets over the Black Sea

Italian naval jets over the Black Sea

Gepostet von | 10 Apr 2025 | , , , | 0

Training mission as a NATO deterrent? NATO appears to want to increase its deterrence in south-east Europe: As the headquarters of the Naval Striking and Support Forces NATO (STRIKFORNATO, Oeiras/Portugal) reported on its social media channels last weekend, modern Italian F-35B fighter jets recently completed a "training mission" over the Black Sea. They are said to have received support from a French A330 MRTT tanker aircraft. Both STRIKFORNATO and the Allied Joint Force Command in Naples (JFC Naples) published images of this, but withheld further details. According to the photo and video, the units undertook the flight during the day...

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Two operational boats from Marine Alutech for Lithuania

Two operational boats from Marine Alutech for Lithuania

Gepostet von | 10 Apr 2025 | , , | 0

According to press releases issued by the Lithuanian Ministry of Defence and the Finnish Navy Alutech on 7 April 2025, Vilnius is acquiring two multi-purpose operational boats worth 22 million euros. The units, developed on the basis of the Watercat M18, are intended for the Lithuanian Navy and are to be assigned to the coastal defence battalion. Latvia has also already formally declared itself in favour of procurement, but has not yet signed a contract. The Lithuanian units are to be armed with Spike NLOS, a 32-kilometre-range missile and remote-controlled heavy machine gun systems. To strengthen regional maritime security, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania concluded a technical agreement in 2024 on a "common defence system".

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South Korea - First US cargo ship successfully repaired

South Korea - First US cargo ship successfully repaired

Gepostet von | 9 Apr 2025 | , , | 0

In July 2024, the South Korean shipyard Hanwha Ocean signed a Master Ship Repair Agreement with the US Naval Supply Systems Command to expand both its maintenance business and its relationship with the US Navy. And the US Navy is relying on these capabilities to mitigate its own lack of shipyard capacity, personnel shortages and cost and distance issues in its maintenance programmes. Marineforum reported on this in November 2024: "South Korea - new order for the US Navy". Now Hanwha Ocean has completed an extensive overhaul project for USNS "Wally Schirra". The 40,000-tonne Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship belongs to the Military Sealift Command and has been on the...

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