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China: First voyages of the third aircraft carrier

China: First voyages of the third aircraft carrier

Posted by | 18 Oct 2024 | , , | 0

At the end of June, the South China Morning Post reported that China claimed to have the world's largest conventional aircraft carrier, the "Fujian". The privately owned (Alibaba), but in China recognised for its narrow degree of freedom to publish factually, referred in particular to the electromagnetic catapult: something had been achieved with this technology on a conventionally powered ship that was not considered feasible. The US Navy can also demonstrably achieve this with the Ford class, but its energy systems are known to be nuclear-powered and can therefore generate sufficient electricity. The "Fujian" is China's third aircraft carrier and the first to be built after...

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China's strategic submarines in the Taiwan Strait

China's strategic submarines in the Taiwan Strait

Posted by | 17 Oct 2024 | , , | 0

An event with rarity value: It is now five years since a strategic submarine of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) was last sighted in the open sea. Shortly before a Taiwanese military manoeuvre towards the end of June, one of the Type 094 submarines appeared travelling northwards on the Chinese side of the international fairway between the island and the mainland (median line). The nuclear submarines of the Jin class (137 metres, 10,000 tonnes submerged, 12 launch containers for JL-2s, each with around 1 MT of nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs)) are still a big unknown - their number is now said to have grown to five. The boat was presumably on the...

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Scholasticism and the dark sea

Scholasticism and the dark sea

Posted by | 17 Oct 2024 | , , | 0

The German Navy is still essentially a peacetime navy and the officer corps is hardly tactically orientated. How can this be changed at the doctrinal level? Scholasticism was an important tradition of thought in the Middle Ages, dominated by a rigid insistence on the truth of old texts that propagated a closed world without innovation. It collapsed when the turn of the modern era exposed the scholastics' world view as false. Our country is also experiencing a moment in which a turning point is shaking the world view of political Germany. Our old scholasticism no longer offers us any answers. Germany must think war in all areas in order to become fit for war -...

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Chile: A small flotilla for the Antarctic

Chile: A small flotilla for the Antarctic

Posted by | 16 Oct 2024 | , , | 0

At the beginning of July, the handover and commissioning ceremony for the first icebreaker designed and built in South America, the "Almirante Viel" (111 metres, 13,000 tonnes), took place in Talcahuano/Concepcion, halfway along Chile's almost 6,500-kilometre coastline. Together with the patrol vessel "Fuentealba" (OPV80 - Fassmer design) and the tugboat "Lientur", which arrived in the last decade, the newbuild forms the Chilean triumvirate for the nation's stronger commitment to the opposite coast of the 7th continent, the...

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With mosquitoes against the bear

With mosquitoes against the bear

Posted by | 16 Oct 2024 | , , | 0

Interview with the former Deputy Minister of Defence of Ukraine, Igor Kabanenko, by Hans Uwe Mergener and Holger Schlüter. Can you give us an insight into the current state of the Ukrainian navy? How do you see its future? Ukraine's naval forces entered the war when the Strategy for the Development of Ukraine's Naval Forces until 2035, adopted in 2018, was just beginning to be implemented, i.e. during a transitional period. A key part of this strategy included the creation of so-called Mosquito capabilities, i.e. a fleet of small, fast and highly manoeuvrable manned combat platforms. Let me take this opportunity to access marineforum digital+ You are already...

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