Naval Group: Type ship of the FDI frigate delivered to the Marine Nationale In October, the French state shipyard Naval Group delivered the "Admiral Ronarc'h", the type ship of the five FDI frigates (Frégate de Défense et d'Intervention), to the Marine Nationale in Brest. As a completely newly developed multi-mission frigate (122 metres, 4,500 tonnes), it is intended to master everything...
China - Sea trials for the amphibious supercarrier "Sichuan" Far removed from the global interest in the Chinese Navy's three aircraft carriers (PLAN), the new amphibious helicopter landing ships are not very visible - especially as they do not appear to differ significantly from one another at first glance. It is above all the Type 075 (Yushen class, 237...
Bulgaria - NVL builds MMPV 90 for the Black Sea The Bulgarian Navy has been replacing its outdated Soviet-era vessels with Western models bit by bit for several years now. Since the beginning of November, "Hrabri", the first of the two multipurpose patrol vessels MMPV 90 (Multipurpose Modular Patrol Vessel 90), has been...
Stirling Castle, purchased in 2023 for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service (RFA), but then decommissioned in 2024 due to a lack of personnel, was taken over by the Royal Navy at the beginning of the year and reactivated in July with a qualified crew under the White Ensign (white naval flag). The ship, which still looked quite civilian, was...
P-3C Orion flies reconnaissance off Argentina's coast With the arrival of the second of four formerly Norwegian and previously American P3-C/P3-N maritime patrol aircraft refurbished in the USA, Argentina's important capability for large-scale surveillance of its Exclusive Economic Zone in the South Atlantic is slowly being regenerated. Every year, it is mainly Chinese fishing fleets that move along the...
NVL builds patrol boats for Egypt NVL Egypt, a joint venture between Naval Vessels Lürssen and two Egyptian shipbuilding companies, was selected as prime contractor in September 2023 and has started building ten PV43-M patrol boats for the Egyptian Navy on schedule this September. The 43-metre offshore patrol boats (270 tonnes) are based on the...
It took almost a year for the Defence Committee in Washington to learn of the results of a series of tests conducted by the Navy in the middle of the year in which four different systems for defence against small UAS drones, known as counter-UAS (C-UAS), were evaluated. Back in August...
The American aircraft carrier "USS Gerald R. Ford" (CVN 78), type ship of its class and currently flagship of Carrier Strike Group 12, was in the Barents Sea between Spitsbergen/Svalbard and Nordkapp together with a SAG (Surface Action Group) of four NATO navies for a fortnight at the beginning of September for joint operations. These exercises in the...
The first frigate newbuilding in the F-110 programme was launched at the state-owned Navantia shipyard in Ferrol on 11 September - one month ahead of schedule and with an equipment level of more than 70 percent! The godmother of the "Ramón Bonifaz" was Queen Sofía of Spain. The Bonifaz class (146 metres, 6,200 tonnes)...
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