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Unmanned systems for maritime security

Unmanned systems for maritime security

Gepostet von | 12 Sep 2022 | , , , , | 0

It hardly needs the confirmation of the Ukraine war to demonstrate the ever-growing importance of unmanned underwater, surface and airborne systems for maritime security. Camcopters are currently being used by Denmark, Iceland and Romania, among others, for maritime and border surveillance, supported by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA). The US Navy is testing a SeaGuardian drone with electronic and communication sensors during its major Rimpac 2022 exercise. The US 7th and 5th fleets are rehearsing the use of unmanned systems in exercises with allied partners. The Royal Air Force reports successful trials with drones to saturate enemy air defences and Israel...

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Rolls-Royce supplies mtu marine gensets for F126

Rolls-Royce supplies mtu marine gensets for F126

Gepostet von | 12 Sep 2022 | , , , , | 0

DAMEN Naval and Rolls-Royce's Power Systems division have signed a contract for the supply of 16 mtu diesel gensets for the German Navy's four new F126 frigates. This is DAMEN's first order for mtu diesel gensets for military applications. According to Hein van Ameijden, Managing Director of DAMEN Naval, Rolls-Royce was chosen because its mtu solutions are customised for naval applications. Efficiency, fuel savings and reduced maintenance The on-board power for each F126 frigate is provided by four Series 4000 variable-speed mtu gensets. These high-performance gensets are the most environmentally friendly marine gensets Rolls-Royce has ever produced: they fulfil the requirements of the IMO III...

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Didn't get away with it!

Didn't get away with it!

Gepostet von | 10 Sep 2022 | , , , | 0

"Toxic" aircraft carrier returns to Brazil Officials in Turkey have confirmed it: the decommissioned Brazilian Navy aircraft carrier NAE São Paulo, which was due to be scrapped in Aliaga, has changed course and is on its way back to Brazil. The tug of the aircraft carrier has changed its AIS signal and now indicates that it will arrive back in Rio de Janeiro on 2 October. The two-month round trip follows a similar pattern to the odyssey of its sister ship, the French aircraft carrier "Clemenceau", which was also turned away in 2006, then in India. As with her sister ship, the "São...

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Gorch Fock back in Kiel on 9 September

Gorch Fock back in Kiel on 9 September

Gepostet von | 9 Sep 2022 | , , | 0

On Friday, 9 September 2022, the sail training ship "Gorch Fock" arrived in its home port of Kiel. The crew was welcomed by Flotilla Admiral Jens Nemeyer, Commander of the Mürwik Naval School. The day before, Kristina Herbst, the new president of the CDU state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein, had welcomed the Gorch Fock to the roadstead in the Kiel Fjord. After a good five weeks and around 2,500 nautical miles, this marks the end of the 174th foreign training voyage (AAR) and thus the first voyage of the new commander, Captain Andreas-Peter Graf von Kielmannsegg (55). "My main hope with this voyage was to achieve the training objective for the officer cadets and at the same time to fulfil...

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Frigate "Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania" joins NATO organisation

Frigate "Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania" joins NATO organisation

Gepostet von | 8 Sep 2022 | , , , | 0

On Wednesday, 7 September 2022 at 10 a.m., the frigate "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" departed Wilhelmshaven to take part in a permanent NATO fleet formation. "We were already part of the Very High Readiness Task Force (VJTF) for almost two months in the spring of this year and are now, after a short summer break, returning to the NATO organisation before continuing seamlessly with national exercises from mid-October," says frigate captain Hendrik Wißler (42). The commander of the ship continues: "The crew and I are therefore looking forward to the reunion with our NATO allies and are confidently embarking on this once again intensive deployment and training voyage under the banner of...

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