This purchase had also been in the pipeline for some time: at the end of March, Jakarta ordered two submarines of the "Scorpène Evolved" type from the Naval Group and its local shipbuilding partner PT PAL. which will be offered exclusively for export. After the slightly larger Brazilian Riachuelo class boats, these would be the first of their type...
Since 2017, the UK has had a National Shipbuilding Strategy, which Boris Johnson refreshed in 2022, and which was given a further boost by Rishi Sunak, who had stepped down as Prime Minister, to coincide with the election campaign ahead of the UK general election. According to this paper - and that it is more than that...
Six new MRSS - multi-role support ships - are to be built to replace the ageing components of the amphibious forces of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Designed according to the latest requirements and knowledge of force projection from sea to shore, but also adapted to the needs of humanitarian missions near and far,...
Faced with the question of how to replace the six small Floréal-class frigates, France recently decided in favour of building the Gowind corvettes - and against waiting any longer until the European Patrol Corvette is ready for series production, a joint project that has just been launched in the light of the findings of the last six months....
At the end of April, the French defence administration DGA, the Direction Générale de l'Armement in Paris, published a video of the first simultaneous land target firing of the new naval cruise missile MdCN (missile de croisière naval, also: SCALP-Naval), manufactured by the European consortium MBDA. On 18 April 2024, the first FK was launched from the submerged, nuclear-powered attack submarine "Suffren"...
After just 15 years in active service, the Royal Australian Navy decommissioned its largest ship, the 47,000-tonne displacement tanker "Sirius", at the end of 2021. The ship had been purchased on the civilian market as a replacement for an obsolete single-hull tanker and retrofitted with a "flange-mounted" helicopter landing deck and double-sided RAS...
From a press release by Mercy Ships Deutschland e.V.: 22 April 2024, Geneva (CH) / Lindale TX (USA) - A landmark agreement between the MSC Group, the MSC Foundation and the aid organisation Mercy Ships International provides for the planning of the construction of a new hospital ship that will help thousands of people in Africa every...
The American sailor Charles French saved the lives of fifteen comrades in 1942. It was not until 80 years later that his heroic deed received the recognition it deserved. In the early hours of 5 September 1942, Japanese warships sank the American troop transport USS Gregory near the Solomon Island of Guadalcanal. A life raft with 16 survivors drifts without propulsion and...
After all, 40 per cent of German television viewers still watch TV news and around 80 per cent read printed and digital newspapers. Print is not dead, as the bulging walls in newsagents show. But the relentless trend shows a 40 per cent decline since 1994. Since around 90 per cent of the population...
The United Nations wants to protect the marine habitat from pollution and overexploitation with the marine conservation agreement. At least 60 states must have ratified the treaty by 2025. Since the annual General Assembly of heads of state and government at the end of September, the marine conservation agreement has been open for signature at the United Nations in New York. Two German...
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