Available on the website of the Dutch Ministry of Defence since 30 September 2022: the request for quotation will be sent to the three competing shipyards in mid-November 2022. The Hague expects Damen, Naval Group and tkMS to submit a proposal by summer 2023. For four submarines - considerations to reduce the number of...
The Colombian Ministry of Defence has confirmed the signing of a contract between the Dutch Damen shipyard and the state-owned shipbuilding complex Cotecmar (Corporación de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo de la Industria Naval Marítima y Fluvial). The object of the contract is the construction documentation for Colombia's new frigate PES (Plataforma Estrategia de Superficie - Strategic Surface Unit),...
According to the Israeli Ministry of Defence, in mid-September the Sa'ar 6 corvette "Oz" (translated: courage), the second of the four Magen-class units (90 metres in length, 1,900 tonnes) built by tkMS in Kiel, successfully fired a "Gabriel V" sea target missile as part of the weapons technology equipment and verification process. This missile belongs to the latest variant...
In spring 2018, the US Marines received the first newly built Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift transport helicopter to replace the now obsolete CH-53E Super Stallion heavy-lift helicopter. Now it has taken another four years, filled with performance tests under extreme climatic conditions and up to technically feasible flight altitudes, until the end of...
In view of the war in Ukraine, NATO's Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM, Northwood, UK) has this year combined the NATO manoeuvre "Dynamic Mariner" with the Turkish Navy's manoeuvre "Mavi Balina 22" to form a major multinational manoeuvre that will take place from 11 to 18 September in the eastern Mediterranean. Manoeuvre participation The aim of the manoeuvre is...
For six months - the entire period of Russia's ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine - HMS Audacious, the UK's newest operational Hunter-Killer nuclear submarine, has been on patrol in the Mediterranean. While above, NATO surface units were monitoring shipping traffic as part of Operation Sea Guardian - and primarily keeping an eye on...
Tall ship meets aircraft carrier: US Navy compliments the Signora It was on 12 July 1962: The US aircraft carrier "USS Independence" encountered the "Amerigo Vespucci" in the Mediterranean under full sail and asked her to identify herself by light signal. The Italian three-masted ship, which had been launched in February 1931, gave...
As already announced here ten days ago, the Kiel shipyard used the SMM 2022, which has just ended in Hamburg, to present a new corvette design. Here are a few more details that might interest you. The new Seaguard 96 is an "innovative high-end corvette that will be used in...
"Toxic" aircraft carrier returns to Brazil Officials in Turkey have confirmed it: the decommissioned aircraft carrier NAE São Paulo of the Brazilian Navy, which was to be scrapped in Aliaga, has changed course and is on its way back to Brazil. The tugboat of the aircraft carrier has changed its AIS signal and...
On Friday (2 September), the Iranian navy announced that it had seized two American-made sailing drones in the Red Sea because they were apparently "ownerless and uncontrolled, threatening the navigational safety of shipping". After receiving two calls from an American destroyer in the sea area, the two drones were unceremoniously taken on board the Iranian...
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