United Kingdom - New Chief of the Defence Staff comes from Royal Navy
Sir Tony Radakin, Acting First Sea Lord of the Royal Navy, becomes Commander-in-Chief of the British Armed Forces
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Spain - Cancellation of Russian destroyer KULAKOW
After the Spanish defence minister had provisionally agreed to the supply stopover of the destroyer VIZEADMIRAL KULAKOW (UDALOY class), which belongs to the Russian Northern Fleet, and its escort tug ALTAY in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the north coast of Morocco, which had been requested for the end of August, the foreign minister José Manuel Albares, who had just taken over in June, cancelled the project at short notice. He had not received an answer from Russia to his question about the association's further plans after the supply had been made - and immediately lowered the barrier of "goodwill" again. Two other points can also be seen as the background to this: Firstly, Madrid wants to give the autonomous enclave a somewhat...
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Ann Phillips becomes head of the US Maritime Administration
President Biden nominates former rear admiral to head the US Maritime Administration
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BAAINBw awards military history prize
On 14 October, Major General Gert Nultsch, Vice President of the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw), presented the prize for military history and the history of military technology at a colloquium for young researchers in military history at the University of Potsdam, accompanied by music from the Bundeswehr Music Corps. With this award, the BAAINBw honours outstanding academic work in the fields of military history and the history of military technology. Since 2017, the award, including attractive prize money, has been presented every two years by the management of the BAAINBw based on the assessment of an expert commission consisting of seven renowned military historians and an engineer. This year, the first...
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Turkmenistan - first corvette of the TURKMEN class put into service
What began as a rumour at the start of 2019 has now become a reality: Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow has commissioned the first TURKMEN-class corvette, named DENIZ HAN, at the naval base on the eastern outskirts of Türkmenbaşy. Initially known as the C 92, the design from the two Istanbul shipyards Dearsan and Gülhan is a corvette just over 90 metres long and displacing 1600 tonnes with a Turkish Gökdeniz CIWS from Aselsan and a 76-millimetre cannon as its main armament. Now that was a lot of Turkish, but Dearsan is Turkmenistan's favourite naval shipyard and has already built 25 units of various sizes for the country. This type...
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