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)...
Moscow has switched its economy to war production. If one of the state-owned defence companies such as the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), which is considered a "major supplier of military ships for the Russian Navy" under EU sanctions, starts to falter, things are going to get tight! USC, a conglomerate of various shipyards, was forced to go into...
The launch of the "Vitse-Admiral Burilichev" (project 22011, 108 metres, 5,200 tonnes), a research vessel that is, however, subordinate to the Deep Sea Research Department (GUGI) of the Ministry of Defence, took place quietly and just before the Finnish border in Vyborg, far away from any journalistic curiosity. It is from there that the communications infrastructure of Western countries is...
The country in the interior of the South American continent - one of two states without direct access to the sea - relies heavily on its navy to secure its borders, as around 60% of its national border lies in the centre of the Paraguay, Parana, Apa and Pilcomayo rivers. However, Paraguay is also considered...
Ten years ago, the Pakistani navy ordered a total of eight diesel-electric submarines as a slightly smaller export version of the Chinese Yuan class from the Wuchang shipyard in Wuhan (type 039B, 78 metres, 3,200 tonnes). Four of the boats will be delivered directly from Wuhan, while a further four are being built in Pakistan at Karachi Shipyards & Engineering...
They are 143 metres long and displace 6,300 tonnes - but are considered multi-purpose patrol vessels and consequently bear a "P" in front of the hull number as their type designation. The first versions of the Italian Thaon di Revel class were built in the "light" configuration FFBNW - Fitted For But Not With, i.e. prepared for the installation of...
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