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USS Arleigh Burke relocated to Spain

USS Arleigh Burke relocated to Spain

Gepostet von | 29 Mar 2021 | , , , | 0

Four American destroyers of the Arleigh Burke class are stationed in Rota, Spain. They have their official home port there and are part of the Forward Deployed Naval Forces Rota. With the departure of the USS Arleigh Burke from Norfolk on the US East Coast, a change is now in the offing. After her arrival in Rota, she will replace the Donald Cook, which has been stationed in Spain since 2014. While the Cook moves back to Norfolk, Rota will become the home port for the Arleigh Burke for the next few years. Many of the crew's family members move to Europe with the soldiers. The Commander's headquarters are located in Rota...

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Royal Navy receives further USV for tests

Royal Navy receives further USV for tests

Gepostet von | 28 Mar 2021 | , , , | 0

The Royal Navy has taken delivery of another important building block in the realisation of its strategy to increase the use of autonomous vehicles. The Navy's own innovator NavyX recently officially took delivery of another boat, which will be used to carry out various tests and investigations for a year. The vehicle is called Madfox (Maritime Demonstrator for Operational Experimentation) and is a further development of the Mast-13 from L3Harris. Mast-13 has been put through its paces by the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (Dstl) over the past 18 months. HMS Albion successfully experimented with Mast-13 off the Norwegian coast. Since the delivery of the Madfox, the...

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Canada's new Joint Support Ship

Canada's new Joint Support Ship

Gepostet von | 28 Mar 2021 | , , , | 0

The Joint Support Ship (JSS) is one of three ship classes currently being procured by Canada's Navy under the National Shipbuilding Strategy. It is a modified version of the German Berlin class. The ships under construction will replace the Protecteur and Preserver, which have already been decommissioned. The German task force supply ships were constructed in the 1990s, with the first ship, the Berlin, joining the fleet in 2001. The Frankfurt am Main followed a year later. The trio was then completed in 2013 with the Bonn. The Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) considers the service life of the three ships to be...

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Corps Mariniers as guests in the USA

Corps Mariniers as guests in the USA

Gepostet von | 27 Mar 2021 | , , | 0

Soldiers from the Dutch Corps Mariniers from Aruba and St. Maarten have been training together with American Marines. To this end, they were hosted by II Marine Expeditionary Forces in North Carolina for the Carribean Urban Warrior 21 exercise. Over a period of three weeks, they had the opportunity to refresh and expand their knowledge in the unique training environment of Camp Lejeune. They practised with aircraft and helicopters in a realistic replica of a city. "The different environment brought a whole new set of challenges," analysed Captain Mark Brouwer, Dutch exchange officer in the United States. "Think of the interoperability of the communication systems and the...

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Arctic sensation

Arctic sensation

Gepostet von | 26. mar 2021 | , , | 0

As was announced today, an "integrated Arctic expedition" of the Russian Navy is currently taking place in the Arctic Ocean. Together with the Russian Geographical Society, a scenario consisting of complex military exercises, research and practical exercises is being carried out for the first time in the Arctic Circle around Franz Josef Land in accordance with a previously defined joint plan. However, the military part seems to predominate. In a video conference with President Vladimir Putin, the commander of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evemnov, reported on the special features and successes achieved so far in the manoeuvre known as Umka-21. Of the 43 planned individual exercises, 35 have been carried out so far, with only ten having been...

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