Category: Marines from all over the world

Turkey: Second Anadolu-class landing/drone carrier planned

Turkey: Second Anadolu-class landing/drone carrier planned

Posted by | 29 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

The dock landing ship ANADOLU - a copy of the Spanish helicopter landing ship JUAN CARLOS I adapted to national requirements - has barely entered service when the Turkish Navy is already negotiating the construction of a second unit with the Spanish state-owned shipyard consortium Navantia. In line with technological progress, it is also to be built according to the plans and with essential supplies from Spain, but again nationally at Turkish shipyards in south-east Istanbul. The Turkish side is always talking about an aircraft carrier. This could have been the case if Turkey had not secured the approval of the USA by flirting with Russian-designed air defence systems.

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Thailand: Renunciation of Chinese submarine

Thailand: Renunciation of Chinese submarine

Posted by | 28 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

A correction first: In issue 10-23, it was stated that submarines made in Sweden are also used in Australia and Japan. This is only true insofar as Australia used the Swedish Kockums design to build its six COLLINS-class boats in its own shipyards - Japan only used the Swedish licence for its ten SOROYU-class boats so that it could build the Stirling engine for the air-independent propulsion system itself. So, that was necessary - now to the actual news from East Asia. In May 2017, Thailand acquired a conventional Chinese submarine of the S 26T class (export version of the YUAN class, 78 metres, 3600...

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Taiwan: New technology for coastal defence

Taiwan: New technology for coastal defence

Posted by | 27 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

The navy of the small island nation off the coast of the hungry dragon is investing in WAM-V technology (wave adaptive modular vessels) from the American company Ocean Power Technologies in order to better monitor its subsurface waters. Concealed explosive ordnance on the seabed poses a threat to the island that is difficult to detect and which these platforms are designed to counter. Two points are of interest here: These WAM-Vs operate autonomously and emission-free, either individually or as a swarm - and they utilise a technology as a sensor platform that is worth presenting here, even if it has already been on the market for a few years.

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Russia: Test firing of a Borei-class intercontinental ballistic missile

Russia: Test firing of a Borei-class intercontinental ballistic missile

Posted by | 26 Dec 2023 | , , | 1

Just a few days after Russia's president signed a law in early 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 fired from the newly commissioned nuclear submarine Imperator Alexander III over a distance of 5,600 kilometres into a target area on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the White Sea. The first test of this weapon system in over a year may be regarded as the final proof of function for the Borei-class submarines, but it has been recognised in the official state narrative as an indication of the functionality of the core element of the Borei...

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Norwegen: Minenabwehr mit autonomen Plattformen

Norwegen: Minenabwehr mit autonomen Plattformen

Posted by | 25 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

Der skandinavische Küstenstaat ist auf bestem Wege, bisher bootsgebundene Minenabwehr in den Bereich unbemannter Kräfte zu verlagern. Sie nennen es die Minenjagd der nächsten Generation und lassen es sich eine halbe Milliarde Euro kosten: Die Königlich Norwegische Marine und die Kongsberg-Gruppe entwickeln gerade mit Spitzentechnologien der Weltraum-, Quanten- und Hyperschalltechnik emissionsarme, hybridgetriebene, autonome Plattformen, die angeschlossen an künstliche Intelligenz den Unterschied ausmachen sollen. Auf den ersten Blick selbstverständlich sensationell, aber auf den zweiten Blick nichts anderes, als was die Royal Navy mit dem von Atlas Elektronik entwickelten Arcims-USV auch macht. Vielleicht übermitteln diese USVs dann den Unterwasser-Lagebericht aus dem...

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