Uruguay receives three Protector guard boats from the USA and two rescue cruisers from Germany. Rosoboronexport comes forward with customised newbuilding offers ranging from coastal corvettes to Russian-built river patrol boats.
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Argentina's navy orders a new polar ship to be built at Tandanor. The corvettes are also to be refitted there. A critical look at the OPV purchase in France.
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The case of the VIRGINIA-class Block IV submarine USS NEW JERSEY, which is gender-neutral in its accommodation and hygiene areas (see news from 18 November 2021), is still going ahead, but some conservative politicians and commentators in the USA have gone too far: at the beginning of November, the US Navy named one of its new support units in San Diego after the mayor HARVEY MILK, who was murdered by a political rival in San Francisco in 1978. Milk had served as a naval diver for four years in the 1950s and also took part in the Korean War (1950-1953) until he was discharged from military service after it became known that he was homosexual. After that...
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Grupo CPS, a Spanish innovation forge in the south-west of Madrid, has shown the various areas of responsibility in the Armada - from the Admiral's Staff to the Air Flotilla and the Naval Armaments Department - the possibilities of a relatively simple RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System). Originally developed as a private initiative for the fishing industry to spot schools of fish and tuna from the air with minimal resources, the system can also be set up on any helicopter platform with a starter and fishing net. It can also be equipped with a task-specific sensor suite, which is already available in the CPS portfolio. On-board use On board the BAM P-46 FUROR (Buque...
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With the end of the Cold War, many countries around the Baltic Sea disbanded their coastal defence squadrons and scrapped their missiles. Not so the navy of the Russian Federation, which has continuously developed the weapon systems of its Baltic Fleet. Now it looks like this resource-saving method of combating sea targets in marginal seas is experiencing a renaissance: at the beginning of October, the Estonian Defence Investment Centre announced that it had signed a contract with Proteus Advanced Systems to purchase Blue Spear sea target missiles with a range of 300 kilometres for Estonian national defence. Good reasons - simple, practical, Baltic. The commander of the Estonian Navy, Commodore Jüri Saska, described the purchase...
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