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IRAN - New combat catamaran for the Revolutionary Guards

IRAN - New combat catamaran for the Revolutionary Guards

Gepostet von | 3 Jan 2025 | , , | 0

Amid tense anticipation of a retaliatory response to the assassination of the leader of the Islamist Hamas movement in Tehran by Israel, the commander of the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, Division General Hosein Salami, announced on the nearby portal Tasnim that he had just handed over more than 2,600 new missiles, drones and other equipment to his elite maritime units of the IRGC-N (Islamic Revolution Guards Corps, responsible for maritime operations in the Persian Gulf). These weapons are even more capable, longer-range, more explosive and less susceptible to jamming and interception than all previous systems. Allegedly, only 210 weapons were on display at the show, and there is also unusually little visual material available for such a...

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What's going on with China's new submarines?

What's going on with China's new submarines?

Gepostet von | 2 Jan 2025 | , , | 0

Not only does the virus come from Wuhan, deep in the interior of the country, but a considerable number of ship designs are also being built in the shipyards on the Yangtze River. Following a launch in May, which took place without publicity, satellite images of a submarine construction previously unknown in the navy of the Chinese PLA were discovered there in July. China is extremely secretive when it comes to submarines. It is known that the conventional Yuan class (type 039A/C, 77 metres, 3,600 tonnes) has been and will be increasingly put into service in three variants and a total of 20 units from 2010. In addition, this type is also being built in Wuhan as the Hangor class in an export version for Pakistan.

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On an educational journey

On an educational journey

Gepostet von | 1 Jan 2025 | , , | 0

When it returns next year, the frigate Baden-Württemberg will have been operating away from home for a year and a half. The experience gained during this time will further advance the F 125 project. With its first deployment on the Unifil mission between October 2023 and April 2024 and the current Indo-Pacific Deployment (IPD), the frigate Baden-Württemberg is once again in the headlines. Since the beginning of May 2024, the F 125 class ship has been completing one of the rare circumnavigations of the globe by German naval vessels together with the task force provider Frankfurt am Main. By sailing through the Taiwan Strait in mid-September, the unit also made an impact in terms of foreign policy. The prerequisite for...

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The tiger makes progress

The tiger makes progress

Gepostet von | 30 Dec 2024 | , , | 0

After the Sea Lion, the German Navy is about to introduce the Sea Tiger. An insight into the status of further development of one of the world's most modern naval helicopters. As part of the multinational NATO Helicopter 90 (NH 90) project, a helicopter family in the nine to eleven tonne class was developed for transport and naval missions. The initiators of the development programme were France, Italy, the Netherlands and Germany. Starting from a common basic helicopter, two basic versions were developed, a naval helicopter (NFH) and a transport helicopter (TTH). National helicopter variants were derived from the respective basic versions in order to fulfil specific national requirements. The German Navy operates the NH 90...

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It was just an accident - wasn't it?

It was just an accident - wasn't it?

Gepostet von | 27 Dec 2024 | , , | 0

The destruction of the Balticconnector gas pipeline still raises questions a year later. And China is preventing clarification with just a few words. It has been over a year since a sudden drop in pressure was recorded in the Balticconnector gas pipeline between Finland and Estonia on 8 October 2023. Parallel data cables - 60 and 20 miles apart - were also damaged in a corresponding time window. A year earlier, the Nord Stream 1 and 2 gas pipelines further west in the Baltic Sea off Bornholm had already been blown up. As with Nord Stream 2022, the emerging suspicion of sabotage was confirmed in 2023,...

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