Singapore submarine during winter tests
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Russia continues to rejuvenate its "Kilo" fleet
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
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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Commander ... of an aircraft carrier!
While Corvette Captain Gilda Prüß became the first woman to hold the position of chief officer on a German Navy frigate last year (see MarineForum 12-2020 page 45), America is already a few steps ahead. Shortly before Christmas, the US Navy proudly announced that a woman will take command of the aircraft carrier USS "Abraham Lincoln" next summer. Captain Amy Bauernschmidt will then command one of the Navy's eleven nuclear-powered carriers and up to 5,600 men and women. With their 85 aircraft, the 332-metre-long ships form the combat-ready backbone of the fleet. The "Abraham Lincoln"...
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On the way to operational readiness
After the Breguet Atlantic was discontinued, the German Navy opted for second-hand P-3Cs from the Dutch. France, on the other hand, decided to develop its own successor, the Atlantic 2. Also known as the Atlantic Nouvelle Generation (ANG), these maritime patrol aircraft differed from their predecessors only in the details. However, after 20 years in service, the technical equipment was no longer up to date and the decision was made to upgrade in 1993. Just under two years ago, the first of the converted aircraft rejoined the fleet. On the way to their planned retirement at the end of 2021...
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