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Brand new Russian nuclear icebreaker

Brand new Russian nuclear icebreaker

Gepostet von | 18 Jan 2022 | , , | 0

Through the Baltic Sea to Murmansk What a lump? The brand new nuclear icebreaker RFS Sibir is currently on a delivery voyage from the Baltic Sea to Murmansk. It is part of Russia's overall strategic concept in the Arctic. The Sibir was launched on 22 September 2017. The ship has since been handed over to the operator Rosatomflot. The ship left St. Petersburg on 13 January and is on its way to Murmansk. It passed the Fehmarnbelt on 15 January and left the Skagerak on 17 January. The Sibir is a nuclear-powered icebreaker of the LK-60 class. It is powered by two RITM-200 pressurised water reactors with...

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India's new aircraft carrier VIKRANT

India's new aircraft carrier VIKRANT

Gepostet von | 18 Jan 2022 | , , | 0

Before the year 2022 comes to an end, the first aircraft carrier VIKRANT to be built exclusively in India is due to enter service. However, a series of functional tests and sea trials lie ahead of this. Initial tests The ship has already passed some of these tests in two test voyages: At the beginning of August 2021, the first part ran with port-side loading of the propulsion and power generation systems at the Cochin Shipyard Limited (CSL) construction yard in the far south-west of the Indian subcontinent. The ship The 260 metre long and over 60 metre wide carrier is the largest ship ever built in India and is also known as the "Dream of...

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Arctic Blue - Successful documentary about power poker in the Arctic

Arctic Blue - Successful documentary about power poker in the Arctic

Gepostet von | 14 Jan 2022 | , , | 0

marineforum has been following developments in the Arctic and the North Atlantic for some time now. Because the ice is melting - faster than some would like - too slowly for others. The landscape is changing faster than in the rest of the world, and with it the conditions. There is new, easier access to natural resources, new transport and shipping routes are emerging - and new claims to power. Documentary on the situation in the Arctic In the two-part film Arctic Blue - Power Poker in the Melting Ice, ZDF reporter Johannes Hano and his team travel through the north of the USA, Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia....

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