The new Dutch Combat Support Ship (CSS) "Den Helder" (179 metres, 22,400 tonnes) has officially been in royal service since mid-October. It is the first and probably only ship of this class to be built by Damen Shipyards in Galati/Romania and equipped in the Netherlands. She is intended to fill the logistical gap...
At the beginning of October, India celebrated the resurrection of the small submarine hunter, as it was mainly known from the Baltic Sea during the Cold War, with the commissioning of "Androth", the second "Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow-Water Craft" (ASW-SWC), in Visakhapatnam. Previously planned with eight units, the corvette-sized Arnala class (78 metres, 900 tonnes) is intended to use the shallow...