While one carrier is being tested to bursting point, Newport News Shipbuilding in Virginia is already working on the latest, fourth FORD-class carrier with the first steel cut. After two presidents (Ford, Kennedy) and the traditional ENTERPRISE, this carrier will be named after Doris "Dorie" Miller, a cook from the battleship WEST...
President Joe Biden still had to fill a high-ranking gap in the Navy that his predecessor had left him. The post of Secretary of the Navy was only temporarily filled following the unfortunate performances of various personalities during the coronavirus pandemic. Following the presidential nomination in June, which was noted in Congress and...
The two SANDOWN-class minehunters BLYTH and RAMSEY, which were decommissioned in Rosyth, Scotland, in mid-July, will move to the Black Sea after a short refit phase and reinforce the Ukrainian Navy. Both boats were in service with the Royal Navy for twenty years and were also the first boats to be transferred to Bahrain.
Advanced computer modelling methods are state of the art today, even in ship design - especially when it comes to the largest carrier ever built. At the end of the 18-month verification voyages, three trials on the Gerald-R. Ford class type ship were to show whether the art passed the endurance test. Only when in...
After the Spanish defence minister had provisionally agreed to the supply stopover of the destroyer VIZEADMIRAL KULAKOW (UDALOY class), which belongs to the Russian Northern Fleet, and its escort tug ALTAY in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the north coast of Morocco at the end of August, the foreign minister José Manuel Albares, who had just taken over in June, cancelled the project at short notice....
What began as a rumour at the start of 2019 has now become a reality: Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow has commissioned the first TURKMEN-class corvette, named DENIZ HAN, at the naval base on the eastern outskirts of Türkmenbaşy. Initially known as the C 92, the design by the two Istanbul shipyards Dearsan and...
The sailing training ship Juan Sebastian Elcano returned to its home port of Cadiz in mid-June from its 93rd training voyage abroad and eleventh circumnavigation. Due to the worsening coronavirus situation in the country, the ship arrived a month earlier than planned. As a traditional welcome to the crew, the Spanish King Felipe VI spent the last day of the voyage in Cadiz.
Since the beginning of June, the TABASCO, the eighth, newest and completely Mexican-built OPV of the 1700-tonne displacement OAXACA class, has also had its rightful crew and flies the service flag of the Central American state. At the same time, however, the CORA, an American-designed ocean-going tugboat that is almost 80 years old (34...
As the final step before a construction contract, Israel Shipyards has signed a contract to commence the detailed design phase for the new RESHEF-class SA'AR 72 corvettes at the Ministry of Defence. 3D technology is to be used in the design, which can minimise the usual paperwork involved in 2D drawings for shipbuilding....
As the lead ship of the British South Atlantic Task Force during the Falklands War in 1982, HMS BROADSWORD (Type 22) made headlines. On 25 May, she was unable to prevent Argentine Skyhawks from hitting the frigate COVENTRY (Type 42) with unguided missiles during the landing operation in San Carlos Bay on Pebble Island with her Sea Wolf low-flying defence system....
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