Category: Armed Forces

India's pride

India's pride

Posted by | 12 Oct 2023 | , , , | 0

With the commissioning of its first indigenous aircraft carrier in 2022, the Indian Navy took the step from buyer to manufacturer. Many components on board come from local production. With its first indigenous aircraft carrier, which is also the Indian Navy's largest warship to date, India is moving ever closer to a blue water navy with three aircraft carriers. With the INS Vikrant ("brave" in Sanskrit), India, in its 75th year of independence, has joined the elite club of nations with the significant capability to design and build an aircraft carrier domestically. This is the second aircraft carrier of the...

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Future with question marks

Future with question marks

Posted by | 9 Oct 2023 | , , , | 0

The Seapower Sympolium has now become a permanent fixture in Kiel. This time, the focus was on the influence of the new era on international maritime security policy. On 15 June, almost one hundred international experts from science, the military and politics came together in Kiel for the Kiel International Seapower Symposium (KISS). KISS has been organised in its current form by the Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University (ISPK) for seven years and has developed into the leading maritime security policy conference in continental Europe. This year, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation has once again been won as a partner. Access marineforum digital+ Are you already a registered user?...

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Size counts

Size counts

Posted by | 5 Oct 2023 | , , , , | 0

India sees itself as an up-and-coming nation and is becoming increasingly self-confident. This is also reflected in the country's maritime ambitions. India, a nuclear power, is single-mindedly expanding its navy. In addition to destroyers, frigates, corvettes and submarines, the armament and modernisation programme also includes aircraft carriers and strategic submarines. India's navy, which has long seen itself as a strong blue water navy capable of far-reaching operations, is thus growing into a regional maritime power in Southeast Asia and is striving for supremacy in the Indian Ocean. Access marineforum digital+ Are you already a registered user? Log in here now - also MOV members: Username Password...

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Attention, contemporary witnesses!

Attention, contemporary witnesses!

Posted by | 4 Oct 2023 | , , , | 0

The Historical-Tactical Conference of the Navy (HiTaTa) includes all kinds of well-practised procedures. These include the fact that the debate after the presentations is opened and determined by the former flag officers seated at the very front of the room. Meanwhile, the majority of the participants who are younger in life and rank seem to follow Bernard Wicki's lesson, according to which, as in the cinema, it may be flickering at the front, but the best seats are at the back. And indeed, many a speaker on the podium will find themselves confronted or even trumped by the memories of contemporary witnesses, especially when these are presented with the verve of a knowledgeable expert and in the style of the highest seniority. A favourite, if...

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Iran supplies missile speedboats to Venezuela

Iran supplies missile speedboats to Venezuela

Posted by | 2 Oct 2023 | , , , | 0

Venezuela - Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro's close relations with the Iranian rulers are bearing fruit: although they are small, the two PEYKAAP III missile speedboats are not entirely without bite. One visit from the Iranian naval grouping circumnavigating the western world at the beginning of the year, and Venezuela already has the destabilising pinprick platforms with sea target FC, which were presented to the public as GOLETA EMPRENDEDORA and GOLETA INDEPENDENCIA at the end of July to mark the 200th anniversary of the Armada Bolivariana de Venezuela. They are 17 metres long and, at 14 tonnes, are real lightweights. Their two sea targets, FK Kowsar or Nasr, fly at subsonic speed and have a maximum...

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