A correction first: In issue 10-23, it was said about submarines made in Sweden that they are also used in Australia and Japan. This is only true to the extent that Australia used the Swedish Kockums design to build its six COLLINS-class boats in its own shipyards - Japan used the Swedish design for...
An audience of around 50 listened with fascination to the lecture by Captain (ret.) Rolf Martens, the last surviving of the seven founding members of the German Naval Institute at the German Armed Forces Command and Staff College. The retrospective in the 50th anniversary year is highly exciting. It is a contemporary witness report, and so you can read an abridged version of the...
The navy of the small island nation off the coast of the hungry dragon is investing in WAM-V (wave adaptive modular vessels) technology from the American company Ocean Power Technologies in order to better monitor its subsurface waters. Explosive ordnance concealed on the seabed poses a threat to the island that is difficult to detect,...
Just a few days after Russia's president signed a law at the beginning of November withdrawing from the international treaty to stop nuclear tests, the Russian navy demonstrated its nuclear deterrent potential: a nuclear-capable Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from the newly commissioned nuclear submarine Imperator Alexander III in the White...
In contrast to many other countries, the maritime sector has only a low public profile in Germany. Despite the country's dependence on open sea routes. The 13th National Maritime Conference (NMK) took place in Bremen in mid-September 2023. Around 800 participants discussed and evaluated Germany's maritime interests in...
The Scandinavian coastal state is well on the way to shifting previously boat-based mine defence into the realm of unmanned forces. They are calling it the next generation of mine hunting and are spending half a billion euros on it: the Royal Norwegian Navy and the Kongsberg Group are currently developing cutting-edge space, quantum and hypersonic technologies...
The 22nd unit of the Virginia class was commissioned on 14 October. The ship is named after Admiral Hyman C. Rickover. The commissioning ceremony for the USS Hyman C. Rickover (SSN 795) took place at the New London submarine base in the state of Connecticut. To date, 15 hunter submarines are stationed here, including eight units of the...
At the beginning of the year, the Royal Navy acquired the offshore supply/construction vessel TANGAROA TOPAZ and had it refitted and repainted by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead near Liverpool as its first multi-role ocean surveillance ship. Now, in mid-October, it was commissioned as a multi-role ocean surveillance ship under the name RFA PROTEUS with the...
When a Canadian Lockheed CP-140 Aurora, a version of the P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft, was on an eight-hour UN mission in international airspace over the East China Sea, a Chinese Chengdu J-10 closed to within five metres of the wings, while a Shenyang J-16 kept to the side. The Aurora...
After a delay of several years, the first ship of the US Coast Guard's newest class has been christened. The christening and launching of the first unit of the US Coast Guard's (USCG) HERITAGE class took place on 27 October at the Eastern Shipbuilding yard in Panama City, Florida. The name of the new class reflects the fact that all the...
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