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Royal Navy sells legacy assets - reuse or scrap

Royal Navy sells legacy assets - reuse or scrap

Posted by | 18 Nov 2023 | , , | 0

The Royal Navy had held on to old, decommissioned hulls for reserve purposes for years. This surplus tonnage is now to be rapidly reduced, as it also costs personnel, money, time and berths. The recycling company of the British Ministry of Defence has drawn up a five-year plan for this and will begin selling four ships this year exclusively for material recycling. In addition to a minesweeper, the first lot includes the much-travelled Type 23 frigates MONTROSE and MONMOUTH as well as the Type 82 destroyer BRISTOL - a single ship with air defence duties for an aircraft carrier class that was never built - which entered service in 1973. In 1982, the BRISTOL led the two-destroyer air defence force in the Falklands...

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France joins Belgian-Dutch mine action programme

France joins Belgian-Dutch mine action programme

Posted by | 17 Nov 2023 | , , | 0

At the end of August - as the defence ministers of Belgium and the Netherlands announced on their social media channels on the fringes of the EU defence ministers' meeting in Toledo - France finally joined their joint rMCM minesweeper programme. The development was not entirely unexpected: the navies of the three countries have been operating mine warfare units as part of the TRIPARTITE programme since the 1980s and had already come much closer together on the issue of a successor programme last year. Paris had originally intended to develop its future SLAM-F mine defence system together with London and in cooperation with Thales and Saab. However, during the Euronaval 2022 trade fair, the - probably also due to...

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Danish design: Multipurpose Arctic Frigate from OSK

Danish design: Multipurpose Arctic Frigate from OSK

Posted by | 16 Nov 2023 | , , | 0

The Kingdom of Denmark naturally also includes the Faroe Islands between Norway and Iceland as well as Greenland, which is over 50 times larger in area and part of the American continent (2166 million km2). Denmark has many years of experience in operating military ships in the Arctic Ocean. And because our northern neighbour is very flexible when it comes to military procurements, the naval development office OSK Design has created a very up-to-date concept for the next generation of the Multipurpose Arctic Frigate as a precautionary measure. Even if the ice on the polar ice caps melts, a ship like this will always be needed. The slightly wider workhorse (125 metres long, 18 metres...

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South China Sea: Philippines break through China's barrier

South China Sea: Philippines break through China's barrier

Posted by | 15 Nov 2023 | , , | 0

Towards the end of September, the Philippine Coast Guard discovered that China had deployed a floating barrier, initially 300 metres long, off Scarborough Shoal in the South China Sea, 200 kilometres off the coast of Manila, using coast guard rubber dinghies and maritime militia forces. This was intended to prevent Filipino fishing vessels from reaching the productive banks off the reef, which is part of the Philippine economic zone, and making a living there. The same ritual had already taken place in 2012 when China illegally occupied the atoll. When then President Rodrigo Duterte moved closer to Beijing, the fishermen were allowed back onto the uninhabited reef. The...

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Black Sea: Russian naval aviators rely on seaplanes

Black Sea: Russian naval aviators rely on seaplanes

Posted by | 14 Nov 2023 | , , | 0

Why only now? After Ukraine's self-built surface drones have repeatedly caused damage to the Russian aggressor's naval forces as far away as Novorossiysk at the other end of the Black Sea, a strategic rethink is now taking place - also publicised in the media: in order to take preventive action against the threat posed by these naval drones, more Russian naval aircraft are now to be deployed in the Black Sea. The speedbomb boats, which are remote-controlled by the inventive Ukrainians, can hardly be detected by the target ships they are aimed at and can only be eliminated at close range by a direct hit from small-calibre, body-controlled weapons (MG, Gatling, etc.). From the air, however, they are quite easy to recognise, provided they are equipped with...

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