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With flash-bang mode

With flash-bang mode

Gepostet von | 15 Sep 2023 | , , , , | 0

New ideas for equipping maritime special forces were presented at a symposium. This will significantly expand their area of deployment. The annual conference organised by the US Joint Special Operations Command (Socom) was expanded for the first time this year to include additional interest groups. Called SOF Week 2023, the conference took place in Tampa, Florida, in May. More than 15,000 visitors - including many members of friendly armed forces - were counted over the course of the event. In addition to the presentations and panel discussions, the main attractions were the more than 575 exhibitors from the defence industry. The range also included many operational systems and equipment for...

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Handover of the French-Italian fleet supplier JACQUES CHEVALLIER

Handover of the French-Italian fleet supplier JACQUES CHEVALLIER

Gepostet von | 14 Sep 2023 | , , | 1

Toulon was the venue for a team event: OCCAR (Organisation Conjointe de Coopération en Matière d'Armement, European Armaments Agency), DGA (Direction Générale de l'Armement, Paris Armaments Office) and the Marine Nationale handed over the first French-Italian naval supply vessel JACQUES CHEVALLIER from one to the other. With a length of 194 metres and a displacement of 31,000 tonnes, the Bâtiment Ravitailleur de Forces is a showcase project: with its electric propulsion, it can reach 10 knots, with exhaust plume 20 knots - and behind the bridge, two Mistral Simbad-RC launchers are installed for the first time on a French unit for short-range defence, each equipped with two anti-aircraft and sea-target FKs. The construction programme...

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Training as a priority?

Training as a priority?

Gepostet von | 13 Sep 2023 | , , | 0

Training flying personnel is time-consuming and cost-intensive. A look abroad shows how innovative concepts could increase the availability of personnel and material. At the beginning of April, Eva Högl, the Defence Commissioner of the German Bundestag, was quoted as saying the following about the Bundeswehr: "The challenge with personnel is even greater than with material." Although the procurement of modern weapon systems, ammunition and spare parts was and is to a certain extent a prerequisite for successful recruitment, Högl is right. But what can be done to avert a personnel shortage? Is it enough to do more advertising for the armed forces? Do we need financial incentives, or do we need to create...

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China's Renhai class: Presentation of the Xianyang super destroyer

China's Renhai class: Presentation of the Xianyang super destroyer

Gepostet von | 12 Sep 2023 | , , , | 0

With the hull number 108, the Xianyang, the eighth destroyer of the Renhai class (type 055), was officially presented to the public two months ago at the Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) in the northern Chinese harbour complex of Dalian. A video praising the beauty and strength of this super destroyer - or FK cruiser - also serves this purpose. Not without good reason, as the 180-metre-long ships, which displace more than 12,000 tonnes and have two vertical launch silos for a total of 112 missiles of all Chinese designs, are among the most powerful and largest combat ships in the world. This makes them even more powerful than the FK cruisers of the American Ticonderoga class, especially as they will soon be...

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The warehouse is all about strategies and security

The warehouse is all about strategies and security

Gepostet von | 11 Sep 2023 | , , , , | 0

International experts meet at the invitation of GIDS and iFMS Naval officers and scientists from five continents recently exchanged views on maritime strategies and security in Hamburg's Speicherstadt warehouse district. They accepted an invitation from the German Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies (GIDS) and the interdisciplinary research focus Maritime Security (iFMS) at the Helmut Schmidt University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg. The conference venue was the Hanseatic International Maritime Museum. The participants from Argentina, Australia, India, Canada, the Philippines and Germany exchanged views on conflict scenarios in the Indo-Pacific, among other things with a view to the security interests of the Indo-Pacific countries, which have so far received too little attention from...

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