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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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Netherlands - Navy receives fast patrol boats

Netherlands - Navy receives fast patrol boats

Gepostet von | 8 Apr 2025 | , , | 0

The Ministry of Defence is procuring thirteen new boats for the Royal Netherlands Navy to replace the current Fast Raiding Interception Special Forces Craft (FRISC). The contracts with the De Haas Maassluis B.V. shipyard in Rotterdam were signed in March and the first Future Fast Interceptors (FFI) are due to be delivered in around 3 to 4 years. The new boats are more modern, faster and more heavily armed than the FRISC, have an improved sensor and communication system and are less easy for enemies to recognise. In addition, the physical strain on personnel has been reduced. Innovations to the hull...

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Russia: Combat icebreaker Ivan Papanin in Severomorsk

Russia: Combat icebreaker Ivan Papanin in Severomorsk

Gepostet von | 7 Apr 2025 | , , , | 1

On 31 March 2025, the "Ivan Papanin", Russia's first "combat icebreaker", reached its home port of Severomorsk after being observed leaving the Baltic Sea on 25 March. According to information from the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation, the ship is to carry out ice trials over the next three months near Franz Josef Land, the archipelago between Svalbard and Severnaya Zemlya about 1,000 kilometres north of Murmansk. The "Ivan Papanin" is not a classic icebreaker, but a patrol vessel assigned to the navy, which has an ice class of at least Arc6. This means it is capable of breaking ice up to 1.6 metres thick. It was launched on 19 April 2017...

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