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What's going on with China's new submarines?

Not only does the virus come from Wuhan, deep in the interior of the country, but a considerable number of ship designs are also being built in the shipyards on the Yangtze River. Following a launch in May, which took place without publicity, satellite images of a submarine construction previously unknown in the navy of the Chinese PLA were discovered there in July. China is extremely secretive when it comes to submarines. It is known that the conventional Yuan class (type 039A/C, 77 metres, 3,600 tonnes) has been and will be increasingly put into service in three variants and a total of 20 units from 2010. In addition, this type is also being built in Wuhan as the Hangor class in an export version for Pakistan.

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On an educational journey

When it returns next year, the frigate Baden-Württemberg will have been operating away from home for a year and a half. The experience gained during this time will further advance the F 125 project. With its first deployment on the Unifil mission between October 2023 and April 2024 and the current Indo-Pacific Deployment (IPD), the frigate Baden-Württemberg is once again in the headlines. Since the beginning of May 2024, the F 125 class ship has been completing one of the rare circumnavigations of the globe by German naval vessels together with the task force provider Frankfurt am Main. By sailing through the Taiwan Strait in mid-September, the unit also made an impact in terms of foreign policy. The prerequisite for...

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The tiger makes progress

After the Sea Lion, the German Navy is about to introduce the Sea Tiger. An insight into the status of further development of one of the world's most modern naval helicopters. As part of the multinational NATO Helicopter 90 (NH 90) project, a helicopter family in the nine to eleven tonne class was developed for transport and naval missions. The initiators of the development programme were France, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany. Starting from a common basic helicopter, two basic versions were developed, a naval helicopter (NFH) and a transport helicopter (TTH). National helicopter variants were derived from the respective basic versions in order to fulfil specific national requirements. The German Navy operates the NH 90...

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Ministry of Defence receives new data centre network

Critical IT services thus even better secured With the implementation and operation of the so-called data centre network, RzV for short, a completely new IT network of modern, expandable and standardised data centres is being set up and operated in the BMVg division in compliance with military security and information security requirements. The Ministry of Defence is thus positioning itself for the future with state-of-the-art cloud technology and securing critical IT infrastructures even better. To this end, the Bundeswehr Procurement Office today concluded a corresponding contract with the in-house company BWI GmbH. In addition to the procurement and operation of the IT components, the provision of the required infrastructure was also commissioned. The project thus represents the...

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