In the first week of June, the Brazilian Navy carried out a firing mission off Rio de Janeiro with a cross-section of its unit types. This included firing MM 40 sea skimmers at the Ceara landing ship, which dates back to the 1950s and has long since been decommissioned. This video shows how to ignite an MM 40 with words and gestures. To the video...
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Almost simultaneously with the article by K.z.S Nils Brandt, Commander SSS Gorch Fock, on the importance of sail training for prospective naval officers of the German Navy on 19 July 2021 in MarineForum Online, the second edition of Saltwater Leadership will be published by the U.S. Naval Institute in August this year. Written by highly experienced naval officers, it is intended to serve as a foundation for the first steps of prospective naval officers in the U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marines, the U.S. Coast Guard and the Merchant Marine as leaders of subordinate personnel. It is deliberately written as a short, simple book, which is also divided into Five Minute Sentences of...
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In Puerto Belgrano, Argentina's largest naval base about 700 kilometres south of Buenos Aires, shortly before Bahia Blanca, a ship has been "heroically" moored at the pier for ten years, unable to move under its own power: the Heriona is missing a crucial gearbox spare part from England! The four FK destroyers of the Almirante-Brown class (Meko 360 H2) built by Blohm+Voss in the early 1980s are the largest units in Argentina and are equipped with four gas turbines for propulsion. Two are connected to each shaft, and if they are not running for slow speed, nothing works! After the part was handed over to an English company for repair in 2010,...
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.....and suddenly the sky was black On 8 September 1981, the pre-command was set up, three weeks later the 3rd Flying & Technical Squadron Mk88. Or as it is correctly called today: Westland Sea Lynx Mk 88a. On 30 August, the naval aviators attracted a lot of attention. An "8-ship" formation flew over the partners in Wilhelmshaven. Of course, a special greeting went to the Einsatzflottille 2 and the formation was noticed on the ground in the run-up to the 40th Sea Lynx anniversary. Astonishingly, there were 8 Lynx in the air, so together with the helicopters on the Bayern, there are already at least...
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Today, the fuel tanker "Spessart", under the command of Captain Rolf-Heinrich von Bebern (55), is leaving the naval port of Kiel to join the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG 2) in the Aegean. Once in the operational area, the civilian-crewed fleet tanker "Spessart" will support the frigate "Schleswig-Holstein", which had already set off for the Mediterranean in mid-August. The main task of the fuel tanker "Spessart" will be refuelling and supplying the other ships of SNMG 2 with fresh water and fuel. After setting sail, the crew will go on an exercise in the North Sea before starting their voyage in mid-September.
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