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With rockets and grenades

With rockets and grenades

Gepostet von | 19 Jan 2021 | , , | 0

The Dutch Navy has been using the Goalkeeper close-range defence system since the early 1990s. What was state-of-the-art at the time is no longer state of the art today. It is only thanks to a modernisation programme that the systems installed on various ships can still be kept in service. Goalkeeper is a so-called Close-in Weapon System (CIWS), which is used for defence against various airborne threats at close range. These include anti-ship missiles, but also small targets on the surface of the water. In the meantime, drones have also been added to the targets against which defence was to be established at the time. In recent years, the missiles to be defended against have been increasingly...

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Christmas and New Year on the hunt for plastic

Christmas and New Year on the hunt for plastic

Gepostet von | 15 Jan 2021 | , , | 0

Research vessel SONNE investigated the path of plastic waste in the ocean The research vessel SONNE spent a month travelling the Atlantic on the trail of plastic waste. Now the ship from the Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research has arrived back in Emden. It is well known that millions of tonnes of plastic waste end up in the ocean and its marginal seas every year. Where the rubbish ends up, however, is not. An expedition by the German research vessel SONNE has helped to find out more about the path and effects of plastic in the sea. The team on board reported on their work in the blog of the JPI Oceans research project HOTMIC - and on unusual holidays on the...

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Farewell for months

Farewell for months

Gepostet von | 7 Jan 2021 | , , | 0

On 7 January, the tender WERRA set course for the eastern Mediterranean to relieve the frigate BRANDENBURG as the flagship of Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG 2). The seventy or so crew members had already been in the currently prescribed quarantine for days. And so the men and women had long since said goodbye to their families and friends on the day of departure. No infections with the coronavirus had previously been detected. However, to be on the safe side, everyone on board was tested again during a brief visit to Wilhelmshaven. The requirements are strict in order to prevent an outbreak of the virus on board...

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Five in one go

Five in one go

Gepostet von | 6 Jan 2021 | , , | 0

Splashing out instead of splashing out! On 5 November, the Bangladesh Navy commissioned five ships in one go at its Chattogram base in Chittagong. In addition to the two JIANGWEI-II class frigates (Type 053H3) taken over from China, the newbuild corvette PROTASHA of the SHADHINOTA class, which was built in Wuhan, was also given its flag, colours and banner. The two frigates, which are actually just over twenty years old, were contracted in June 2018, overhauled in China and transferred to the Bay of Bengal a year ago with their no longer quite so new weapon systems - they now bear the names UMAR FAROOQ and ABU UBAIDAH. The...

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