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With rockets and grenades

With rockets and grenades

Posted by | 19 Jan 2021 | , , | 0

The Dutch Navy has been using the Goalkeeper close-range defence system since the early 1990s. What was state-of-the-art at the time is no longer state of the art today. It is only thanks to a modernisation programme that the systems installed on various ships can still be kept in service. Goalkeeper is a so-called Close-in Weapon System (CIWS), which is used for defence against various airborne threats at close range. These include anti-ship missiles, but also small targets on the surface of the water. In the meantime, drones have also been added to the targets against which defence was to be established at the time. In recent years, the missiles to be defended against have been increasingly...

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Russia continues to rejuvenate its "Kilo" fleet

Russia continues to rejuvenate its "Kilo" fleet

Posted by | 8 Jan 2021 | , | 0

The rejuvenation of the Russian Federation's conventional diesel-electric submarines is slowly nearing completion. The Kilo class (project 877/636) already comprises 24 boats with a fairly equal distribution across the three fleets, with the first boats already looking back on forty years of service. At the end of October, the "Wolkow", the second boat of the third batch (Project 636.3), a series of six units destined for the Pacific Fleet, was handed over to the Far Eastern command. The boats are being built by the United Shipbuilding Corporation, an offshoot of Admiralty Shipyards in St Petersburg. While the second boat took well over three years to build and test, the second...

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Five in one go

Five in one go

Posted by | 6 Jan 2021 | , , | 0

Splashing out instead of splashing out! On 5 November, the Bangladesh Navy commissioned five ships in one go at its Chattogram base in Chittagong. In addition to the two JIANGWEI-II class frigates (Type 053H3) taken over from China, the newbuild corvette PROTASHA of the SHADHINOTA class, which was built in Wuhan, was also given its flag, colours and banner. The two frigates, which are actually just over twenty years old, were contracted in June 2018, overhauled in China and transferred to the Bay of Bengal a year ago with their no longer quite so new weapon systems - they now bear the names UMAR FAROOQ and ABU UBAIDAH. The...

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