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Thailand: Renunciation of Chinese submarine

Thailand: Renunciation of Chinese submarine

Posted by | 28 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

A correction first: In issue 10-23, it was stated that submarines made in Sweden are also used in Australia and Japan. This is only true insofar as Australia used the Swedish Kockums design to build its six COLLINS-class boats in its own shipyards - Japan only used the Swedish licence for its ten SOROYU-class boats so that it could build the Stirling engine for the air-independent propulsion system itself. So, that was necessary - now to the actual news from East Asia. In May 2017, Thailand acquired a conventional Chinese submarine of the S 26T class (export version of the YUAN class, 78 metres, 3600...

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The maritime idea gets an institute

The maritime idea gets an institute

Posted by | 27 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

An audience of around 50 listened with fascination to the lecture by retired Captain Rolf Martens, the last surviving of the seven founding members of the German Naval Institute at the German Armed Forces Command and Staff College. The retrospective in the 50th anniversary year is highly exciting. It is a contemporary witness report, and so you can read the original version here in an abridged version. It is quite moving for me, as the last surviving founding member (of seven), to give a talk in the 50th anniversary year about how the German Naval Institute came to be founded, a foundation that was not based on spontaneous inspiration, but was the result of years of development. I...

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Taiwan: New technology for coastal defence

Taiwan: New technology for coastal defence

Posted by | 27 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

The navy of the small island nation off the coast of the hungry dragon is investing in WAM-V technology (wave adaptive modular vessels) from the American company Ocean Power Technologies in order to better monitor its subsurface waters. Concealed explosive ordnance on the seabed poses a threat to the island that is difficult to detect and which these platforms are designed to counter. Two points are of interest here: These WAM-Vs operate autonomously and emission-free, either individually or as a swarm - and they utilise a technology as a sensor platform that is worth presenting here, even if it has already been on the market for a few years.

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Russia: Test firing of a Borei-class intercontinental ballistic missile

Russia: Test firing of a Borei-class intercontinental ballistic missile

Posted by | 26 Dec 2023 | , , | 1

Just a few days after Russia's president signed a law in early November withdrawing from the international treaty to stop nuclear tests, the Russian Navy demonstrated its nuclear deterrent potential: a nuclear-capable Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile was fired from the newly commissioned nuclear submarine Imperator Alexander III over a distance of 5,600 kilometres into a target area on the Kamchatka Peninsula in the White Sea. The first test of this weapon system in over a year may be regarded as the final proof of function for the Borei-class submarines, but it has been recognised in the official state narrative as an indication of the functionality of the core element of the Borei...

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Where is the "maritime DNA" of the Germans? 

Where is the "maritime DNA" of the Germans? 

Posted by | 26 Dec 2023 | , , | 0

In contrast to many other countries, the maritime sector has only a low public profile in Germany. Despite the country's dependence on open sea routes. The 13th National Maritime Conference (NMK) took place in Bremen in mid-September 2023. Around 800 participants discussed and evaluated German maritime interests in politics, business and transport, environmental protection, science and maritime security. The Federal Chancellor opened the meeting with his usual sober speech on Germany's maritime dependency, emphasising that the problems were known. We are working on them and are "on the move". Access marineforum digital+ Are you already a registered user? Log in here now...

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