Following the cancellation of the Australian submarine contract, the French Naval Group is turning to new potential customers. This time, the state-owned defence contractor senses an opportunity in the Philippines. The island state has just painstakingly freed itself from America's almost eternal grip. Now, however, it finds itself exposed with weak and outdated armed forces...
The Kiel-based shipyard group Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems is celebrating a milestone birthday. Founded 185 years ago as the iron foundry and machine shop "Schweffel und Howaldt", the company can look back on an eventful shipyard history. On 1 October 1838, the merchant Johann Schweffel and the "mechanic" August Ferdinand Howaldt founded the machine factory and machine shop at the port of Kiel....
India handed over the Kirpan, an FK corvette of the Khukri class (91 metres, 1500 tonnes), to the Vietnamese navy in order to contain China's advance in the Indo-Pacific zone. This was preceded by a 100 million dollar loan, with which Vietnam was able to purchase twelve high-speed coast guard boats in India, and a mutual agreement on personnel exchange and joint utilisation...
Paraguay - The country, which is only accessible via the Rio Paraguay and is cut off from the open sea, has a very small but illustrious navy. The units are all quite old. As a result, only the traditional ship of the Paraguayans, the HUMAITÁ, a 70-metre-long gunboat, usually makes the headlines.
In mid-July - on the French bank holidays - Defence Minister Rajnath Singh signed three decision proposals from the Indian Defence Acquisition Council: firstly, the purchase and equipping of 26 Dassault Rafale-M carrier-capable fighter aircraft for the nationally built Vikrant carrier; secondly, the purchase and licensed construction as well as equipping of three further conventional submarines from the...
Toulon was the venue for a team event: OCCAR (Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en Matière d'Armement, European Armaments Agency), DGA (Direction Générale de l'Armement, Paris Armaments Directorate) and the Marine Nationale handed over the first Franco-Italian naval supply vessel JACQUES CHEVALLIER from one to the other. The Bâtiment Ravitailleur de Forces is 194 metres long and 31 metres...
With the hull number 108, the Xianyang, the eighth destroyer of the Renhai class (Type 055), was officially presented to the public two months ago at the Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) in the northern Chinese harbour complex of Dalian. A video praising the beauty and strength of this super destroyer - or FK cruiser - also serves this purpose....
International experts meet at the invitation of GIDS and iFMS Naval officers and scientists from five continents recently exchanged views on maritime strategies and security in Hamburg's Speicherstadt warehouse district. They accepted an invitation from the German Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies (GIDS) and the interdisciplinary research focus Maritime Security (iFMS)...
Even before its official commissioning, the US Navy sent its newest INDEPENDENCE-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), CANBERRA (LCS-30), to the Australian port city of Sidney for the ceremony on 22 July. This was the first time that a Navy ship was not commissioned in American waters.
The car freighter Fremantle Highway, which caught fire off the Dutch coast on the night of 25 to 26 July, was brought into the nearest Dutch port of Eemshaven and moored there after more than a week in which the ship was in a critical condition. This incident caused a great deal of...
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