Category: Technology

Hypersonic weapons: Plans of the USA

Hypersonic weapons: Plans of the USA

Gepostet von | 13 May 2022 | , , , | 0

US Naval Institute: Report to Congress on the Procurement and Development of Hypersonic Weapons The United States has actively pursued the development of hypersonic weapons - manoeuvring weapons that fly at speeds of at least Mach 5 - since the early 2000s as part of its programme for conventional, rapid global attack. In recent years, the focus has been on the development of hypersonic glide missiles launched from a rocket and hypersonic cruise missiles propelled in flight by high-speed engines. As the former Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and former Commander of the US Strategic Command, General John Hyten, explained, these missiles could...

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Corvette Cologne - Background

Corvette Cologne - Background

Gepostet von | 5 May 2022 | , , , | 0

Kölle Alaaf - Since 21 April 2022, construction number 6 of the Braunschweig class has been named "Köln". At 10.55 a.m., the Kölsch bottle set in motion by the Lord Mayor of the sponsor city, Henriette Reker, smashed against the bow of the corvette. [ 21 April 2022, construction number 6 of the Braunschweig class was christened "Köln" at the traditional Hamburg shipyard Blohm & Voss, which has belonged to Lürssen Defence, now NVL Group, since 2016. The "Köln" is the first unit of the German Navy's second batch of Class 130 (K130) corvettes]. The Class 130 (K130) corvettes, also categorised as the Braunschweig class, are a key component of the German Navy's crisis response operations.

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Start of construction of LNG Terminal Wilhelmshaven

Start of construction of LNG Terminal Wilhelmshaven

Gepostet von | 5 May 2022 | , , , | 0

Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) is coming today, as are the state ministers Olaf Lies (SPD) and Bernd Althusmann (CDU). In 2021, plans for a liquefied natural gas terminal in Wilhelmshaven were cancelled. Suddenly things are moving fast. Dependence on Russian natural gas is to be reduced. The first tankers with LNG gas are expected at the end of the year. LNG tankers should be able to dock as early as winter 22 / 23 to deliver liquefied natural gas (LNG). Due to the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine, the federal and state governments are exerting pressure to reduce dependence on Russian natural gas. Construction begins on Thursday: Federal Economics Minister Robert Habeck (Greens) and the state ministers Olaf Lies...

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Simulator for training on the NH90 Sea Lion

Simulator for training on the NH90 Sea Lion

Gepostet von | 3 May 2022 | , , , , | 0

Second full-mission simulator for naval aviators The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has ordered a second full-mission simulator (FMS) on behalf of the German Armed Forces to support training on the NH90 Sea Lion naval helicopter. The delivery contract from December 2019 has thus been extended. At that time, the development and delivery of a simulator landscape consisting of an NH90 full-mission simulator, NH90 cockpit procedures trainer, NH90 tactics trainer and NH90 winch and hoist operator trainer had been agreed. (ESuT reported https://esut.de/) The training system is scheduled to go into operation in 2022. The additional simulator that has now been ordered will supplement the existing equipment from 2024. CAE has long been a training partner of the German Navy and has supplied training equipment for the search and rescue helicopter...

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Battleship Commander

Battleship Commander

Gepostet von | 2 May 2022 | , , , , | 0

Paul Stillwell: Battleship Commander. The life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr, Naval Institute Press 2021 Unsurprisingly, it took until 2021 to publish the first biography of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr. who played a key role in the U.S. Navy's Pacific campaign during World War II. Although strongly promoted by Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, only a few sentences about Admiral Lee's work can be found in the work "Seemacht, Eine Seekriegsgeschichte von der Antike bis zur Gegenwart" published by Elmar B. Potter and Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, the German version of which was edited by Jürgen Rohwer. Found...

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