Category: Marines from all over the world

Great Britain: London relies on MRSS

Great Britain: London relies on MRSS

Posted by | 26 Aug 2024 | , , | 1

Six new MRSS - multi-role support ships - are to be built to replace the ageing components of the amphibious forces of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines. Designed in accordance with the latest requirements and knowledge of force projection from sea to land, but also adapted to the needs of humanitarian missions near and far, these platforms are now to be designed and developed in broad cooperation between all stakeholders. As already announced last year, this project is based on close cooperation with the Netherlands in particular, which intends to replace its two Rotterdam-class LPDs at the same time. Corresponding contacts are at an advanced stage. The MRSS...

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Paris: OP frigates for the DOM/TOMs

Paris: OP frigates for the DOM/TOMs

Posted by | 23 Aug 2024 | , , | 0

Faced with the question of how to replace the six small Floréal-class frigates, France recently decided in favour of building the Gowind corvettes - and against waiting any longer until the European Patrol Corvette is ready for series production, which is not making sufficient progress as a joint project, especially in light of the findings of the last six months. Better to build something of our own, that has always been the case in Paris! The Floréal class was designed in the 1990s for low-intensity coastal defence tasks in the French overseas territories, but has been used more and more intensively and now requires more assertiveness as a military platform above and below...

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France: Marine Nationale fires SCALP in double pack

France: Marine Nationale fires SCALP in double pack

Posted by | 22 Aug 2024 | , , | 0

At the end of April, the French defence administration DGA, the Direction Générale de l'Armement in Paris, published a video of the first simultaneous land target firing of the new naval cruise missile MdCN (missile de croisière naval, also known as SCALP-Naval), manufactured by the European consortium MBDA. On 18 April 2024, the first FK was launched from the submerged, nuclear-powered attack submarine "Suffren" and - to arrive at the target at the same time - the second shot was launched from the FREMM frigate "Aquitaine". The rest of the press release consists of patting each other on the back. Video...

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Royal Australian Navy: Deconstruction "down under"

Royal Australian Navy: Deconstruction "down under"

Posted by | 21 Aug 2024 | , , | 0

After just 15 years in active service, the Royal Australian Navy decommissioned its largest ship, the 47,000-tonne displacement tanker "Sirius", at the end of 2021. The ship had been purchased on the civilian market as a replacement for an obsolete single-hull tanker and subsequently navalised with a "flange-mounted" helicopter landing deck and RAS harness on both sides. When the two new operational supply vessels "Stalwart" and "Supply" (Cantabria class, 174 metres, 20,000 tonnes) built by Navantia in Spain arrived in 2021, it was too costly for the not overly large navy to maintain several different and less flexible support units. Since resale was probably not profitable either, the...

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Mercy Ships and MSC build hospital ship for Africa

Mercy Ships and MSC build hospital ship for Africa

Posted by | 24 Apr 2024 | , , , | 0

From a press release by Mercy Ships Deutschland e.V.: 22 April 2024, Geneva (CH) / Lindale TX (USA) - A landmark agreement between the MSC Group, the MSC Foundation and the aid organisation Mercy Ships International provides for the planning of the construction of a new hospital ship that will enable thousands of people in Africa to receive free operations and training from local specialists every year. The new hospital ship will be built according to Mercy Ships' needs and experience. Once operational, it will increase the reach and thus the number of life-changing surgical operations, anaesthesia care and education and training programmes offered by Mercy Ships for the next...

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