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...
While ten of the twelve Soryu boats (84 metres, 4,200 tonnes submerged) are still equipped with Saab Kockums' external air-independent propulsion system and only the last two of the construction series from 2020 have been fitted with lithium-ion batteries for propulsion, the Taigei boats (85 metres, 4,300 tonnes) developed from this class are exclusively battery-powered. "Sougei",...
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