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Restriction of armaments between the world wars

Restriction of armaments between the world wars

Gepostet von | 9 Dec 2021 | , , | 0

The Washington Conference on the Limitation of Naval Armaments took place 100 years ago. In the course of the conference, three important treaties were agreed that shaped the political and military situation in the run-up to the Second World War. Shortly after the end of the First World War, new potential for conflict emerged among the victorious powers. The most significant factors were the escalating arms race among the remaining naval powers and the strategic competition between these states in the Pacific region. This also included the danger of aggression against a politically and militarily weak China. The situation in China was particularly precarious. The country had sided politically with the Entente powers in the First World War;...

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US Navy - fourth FORD-class carrier named after Miller

US Navy - fourth FORD-class carrier named after Miller

Gepostet von | 25 Oct 2021 | , , | 1

While one of the carriers 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 is named after Doris "Dorie" Miller, a cook on the battleship WEST VIRGINIA, who was the first African-American to be personally awarded the Navy Cross of Merit by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz in 1942. During the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbour, he had operated an anti-aircraft gun for a quarter of an hour without ever having been trained to do so, not without first removing his seriously injured commander from the line of fire...

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US Navy - Carlos del Toro new Secretary of the Navy

US Navy - Carlos del Toro new Secretary of the Navy

Gepostet von | 25 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

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. After being nominated by the President in June, acknowledged by Congress and heard by the Senate Armed Services Committee in July, Cuban-born Carlos del Toro was confirmed in office at the beginning of August and sworn in at the Pentagon by Secretary of Defence Lloyd J. Austin III at the end of August. Del Toro had left the US Navy after 22 years as a commander to serve in the...

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BLYTH and RAMSEY reinforce Ukrainian navy

BLYTH and RAMSEY reinforce Ukrainian navy

Gepostet von | 24 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

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 move to Bahrain to establish a permanent British mine defence component there. To the subscriptions...

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US Navy - Blast tests on the type ship of the Gerald R. Ford class

US Navy - Blast tests on the type ship of the Gerald R. Ford class

Gepostet von | 24 Oct 2021 | , , | 0

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 blast tests on the Gerald-R. Ford class type ship were to show whether the art would pass the endurance test. Only when no marine mammals could be detected within a 3.5-mile radius by the spotter teams and aerial observers was the first attempt detonated on 18 June off the coast of Florida with an approximately 18-kiloton explosive charge as a full ship shock trial, which was recognised as an earthquake measuring 3.9 on the Richter scale.

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