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Changing of the guard: Minehunting boat "Bad Bevensen" replaces "Homburg"

Changing of the guard: Minehunting boat "Bad Bevensen" replaces "Homburg"

Gepostet von | 19 Oct 2021 | , , | 1

On Thursday, 21 October 2021, the minehunting boat "Bad Bevensen" will leave its home port of Kiel at 10 am. The boat will be part of NATO's Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 (SNMCMG 1) for the coming months. She replaces the "Homburg", which had already left Kiel on 14 July. Under the command of Corvette Captain Christopher Fenske (37), the 42-strong crew will set sail for Cuxhaven to join the NATO organisation there. The first part of the approximately six-month deployment will take the "Bad Bevensen" to the Baltic Sea. After a break at the turn of the year, the...

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Mexican Navy - New and old

Mexican Navy - New and old

Gepostet von | 18 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

Since the beginning of June, the TABASCO, the eighth, newest and completely Mexican-built OPV of the 1700-tonne displacement OAXACA class, has also had its rightful crew and flies the service flag of the Central American state. At the same time, however, the CORA was decommissioned, an American-designed ocean-going tugboat that was given a well-deserved retirement at almost 80 years of age (34 years in the US Navy, 44 years in Mexico) and with its top speed reduced to 10 knots. Sometimes a window into the past opens. To the subscriptions...

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Israeli Navy - 3D technology for construction of new corvettes

Israeli Navy - 3D technology for construction of new corvettes

Gepostet von | 18 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

As the final step before a construction contract, Israel Shipyards has signed a contract to commence the detailed design phase for the new RESHEF-class SA'AR 72 corvettes at the Ministry of Defence. The design will utilise 3D technology, which can reduce the usual paperwork of 2D drawings in shipbuilding to a minimum. This class is to replace the SA'AR 45-class units, which have now been in the coastal defence service of the Israeli Navy for over 30 years. The boat type is to be equipped exclusively with systems from national production To the subscriptions...

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Brazilian Navy - "GREENHALGH has fulfilled its mission"

Brazilian Navy - "GREENHALGH has fulfilled its mission"

Gepostet von | 18 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

As the lead ship of the British South Atlantic Task Force during the Falklands War in 1982, HMS BROADSWORD (Type 22) made headlines. On 25 May, she was unable to prevent Argentine Skyhawks from hitting and capsizing the frigate COVENTRY (Type 42) with unguided bombs during the landing operation in San Carlos Bay on Pebble Island with her Sea Wolf low-flying defence system. The first group of Skyhawks flew so close that the BROADSWORD's fire control system crashed when both aircraft split, and when the second group approached, the COVENTRY had manoeuvred itself into the direct line of fire of the Sea Wolfs! Even from the first squadron by a bomb penetration in the...

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Danish Navy - In the piracy hotspot

Danish Navy - In the piracy hotspot

Gepostet von | 18 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

Denmark prepares for action against pirates in the Gulf of Guinea Between November 2021 and April 2022, the Dannebrog, the flag of Denmark, will not only fly over merchant ships in the Bay of Guinea, but will also be flown by the frigate ESBERN SNARE. The ship, equipped with a Seahawk helicopter and a crew of around 175 including a special force, is to put the pirates of West Africa in their place. The ship will be part of an international task force set up in response to an IMO resolution from May 2021, in which states, the UN and the G7++ Friends of the Gulf of Guinea...

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