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....
He only retired from his post as Fleet Commander of the Portuguese Navy (2017 to 2020, a good part of which he also served as Commander European Maritime Force (EUROARFOR)) at the beginning of 2020, but he doesn't have much time left as a pensioner for the time being. When, at the beginning of 2021, after the second wave of coronavirus...
Two years ago, Indonesia announced at the DSEI (Defence & Security Equipment International) arms fair in London that the British shipbuilding group Babcock, with its ARROWHEAD-140 design for the Royal Navy's new Type 31 frigate, was the preferred supplier for a corresponding newbuilding programme to be built at the domestic state shipyard PT PAL in Surabaya....
Security alliances declared out of nowhere are currently booming - this is not only due to the end of contact and exit restrictions during the pandemic, but perhaps more to the global power shifts that can no longer be denied. Following the failure of the submarine deal with Australia, it is now France's turn. In Paris...
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