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",...
The news is quite ordinary, the photo is absolutely worth seeing! "Aotearoa" (173 metres, 26,000 tonnes), New Zealand's ice-capable multipurpose fleet provider, which is so long and wide that it doesn't fit into any national dock, carried out its first routine maintenance phase in Singapore at Babcock/Seatrium after entering service in 2020. Needless to say that...
The sixth of the seven Astute-class attack submarines (97 metres, 7,400 tonnes) has undertaken its first diving trials three weeks after being christened and commissioned by King Charles in September. These tests took place in the secure dock at BAE Systems in Barrow-in-Furness, some 60 kilometres north of Liverpool. They are critical proof that...
Royal Navy - Sail training ship for officer training If you live on an island, you don't have to learn to sail - you have grown up with wind and weather, with the sea and on small boats. A real sail training ship, as some continental navies value highly for training and representation purposes, needs...
The Victory, the first of six Multi-Role Combat Vessels (MRCV), was launched at Singapore Technology Engineering in the second half of October. The 150-metre-long vessel will operate as a drone carrier in future and will be able to deploy its remotely or autonomously controlled weapons on all three levels. The commissioning of the Victory...
The catastrophic situation in Sudan and the associated lack of any progress in harbour construction have probably led Russia to abandon its plans for an "East of Suez" presence. In any case, Moscow has declared that it is cancelling its plans to expand a Russian naval base in Port Sudan.
Another cancelled defence project: At the beginning of November, Norway finally cancelled the procurement contract from 2001 for fourteen NH90s, which had already been terminated in 2022 due to delivery deviations and maintenance problems, by mutual agreement and by resolving all disputes with the French-dominated NHIndustries (Airbus Helicopters, Leonardo, Fokker). NHI will take back the eight NH90s delivered to date, including spare parts,...
At the beginning of November, one piece of news did not make the headlines: The Huthi rebels in Yemen declared an end to their attacks on maritime interests (ships, harbours) with links to Israel in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Since the ceasefire between the USA and the Houthis brokered by Oman in May, the attacks have been limited to...
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