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Ukraine: Breakthrough power with new diving drones

Ukraine: Breakthrough power with new diving drones

Gepostet von | 22 Nov 2023 | , , , | 0

The surface drones of the Ukrainian naval forces will only be effective as long as the Russian navy has not developed effective defence tactics. The next logical step is to shift the dynamics below the surface. Ammo Ukraine has now used its ingenuity and engineering skills to develop such an underwater drone. Marichka is to be six metres long and have a range of 1000 kilometres. Depending on the payload, it can be used as a means of transport, a reconnaissance sensor or an attack weapon. The media are currently talking about testing - but this is only likely to take up a small window of time, as the real test should be a timely baptism of fire with real hits.

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NATO: Mandate extension for NATO Military Committee Chairman

NATO: Mandate extension for NATO Military Committee Chairman

Gepostet von | 21 Nov 2023 | , , | 0

At their meeting in Oslo in mid-September, the NATO Chiefs of Defence agreed to extend the mandate of Dutch Admiral Rob Bauer as Chairman of the NATO Military Committee by a further six months until November 2024. He will then be succeeded by the Italian Chief of Defence, Admiral Giuseppe Cavo Dragone. With this decision, NATO wants to maintain continuity in the leadership and at the same time enable his successor to fulfil his duties as Italian Chief of Defence until the end of his mandate. The Chairman of the NATO Military Committee is the principal military advisor to the Secretary General and the North Atlantic Political Council (Ambassador) and represents to them the common interests of NATO...

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ASEAN/Indonesia backs Code of Conduct for South China Sea

ASEAN/Indonesia backs Code of Conduct for South China Sea

Gepostet von | 20 Nov 2023 | , , | 0

The East Asian island state is chairing the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) this year and wants to use its opportunity to at least agree a code of conduct with China for the highly controversial South China Sea. The guidelines for a Code of Conduct (CoC) drawn up by Indonesia were adopted by the Director of the Office of the Central Committee for Foreign Affairs of the Chinese Communist Party in Jakarta in mid-July. The ten Asean countries and China now aim to finalise the CoC negotiations within three years. It is the first multilateral attempt to resolve the escalating dispute in the South China Sea. The code of conduct is intended to harmonise national...

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Royal Navy sells legacy assets - reuse or scrap

Royal Navy sells legacy assets - reuse or scrap

Gepostet von | 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

Gepostet von | 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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