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...
A correction first: In issue 10-23, it was said about submarines made in Sweden that they are also used in Australia and Japan. This is only true to the extent that Australia used the Swedish Kockums design to build its six COLLINS-class boats in its own shipyards - Japan used the Swedish design for...
The navy of the small island nation off the coast of the hungry dragon is investing in WAM-V (wave adaptive modular vessels) technology from the American company Ocean Power Technologies in order to better monitor its subsurface waters. Explosive ordnance concealed on the seabed poses a threat to the island that is difficult to detect,...
Just a few days after Russia's president signed a law at the beginning of 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 launched from the newly commissioned nuclear submarine Imperator Alexander III in the White...
The Scandinavian coastal state is well on the way to shifting previously boat-based mine defence into the realm of unmanned forces. They are calling it the next generation of mine hunting and are spending half a billion euros on it: the Royal Norwegian Navy and the Kongsberg Group are currently developing cutting-edge space, quantum and hypersonic technologies...
At the beginning of the year, the Royal Navy acquired the offshore supply/construction vessel TANGAROA TOPAZ and had it refitted and repainted by Cammell Laird in Birkenhead near Liverpool as its first multi-role ocean surveillance ship. Now, in mid-October, it was commissioned as a multi-role ocean surveillance ship under the name RFA PROTEUS with the...
When a Canadian Lockheed CP-140 Aurora, a version of the P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft, was on an eight-hour UN mission in international airspace over the East China Sea, a Chinese Chengdu J-10 closed to within five metres of the wings, while a Shenyang J-16 kept to the side. The Aurora...
The trend towards equipping navies with high-performance standard support vessels from the civilian sector is continuing around the globe. After Chile decommissioned its deep-sea tug Lautaro at the beginning of 2022, an adequate replacement had to be found quickly to maintain national connections along the 4000 kilometres of coastline...
They really want to do it now! A series of four conventional submarines of the Riachuelo class (modified Scorpène class, 75 m, 1900 tonnes) is currently under construction at the state shipyard in Itaguai. Based on this design, the Alvaro Alberto da Motta e Silva attack submarine (SN-BR), three times the size, is now being built in...
Certainly planned for a long time, but nevertheless to be seen in the context of the invasion of the Armenian-populated enclave of Nagorno-Karabakh in Azerbaijan: an informal friendly visit by the frigate Tatarstan to the harbour of Bakú, the capital of Azerbaijan. Even if only for two days with an emphatically culturally guided tour of the city and a football match, the...
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