Die zwei Mitte Juli im schottischen Rosyth außer Dienst gestellten Minenjäger BLYTH und RAMSEY der SANDOWN-Klasse werden nach einer kurzen Umbauphase in das Schwarze Meer verlegen und die ukrainische Marine verstärken. Beide Boote waren zwanzig Jahre im Dienst der Royal Navy und auch die ersten Boote, die nach Bahrain verlegten, um dort eine dauerhafte britische Minenabwehr-Komponente aufzubauen. Zu den Abos...
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Advanced Computer Modeling Methods sind heute State of the Art, auch im Schiffsentwurf – gerade wenn es sich um den größten je gebauten Träger handelt. Ob die Kunst denn auch den Härtetest besteht, das sollten am Ende der 18-monatigen Nachweisfahrten drei Ansprengversuche beim Typschiff der gerald-r.-Ford-Klasse zeigen. Erst als in einem 3,5 Meilen Radius keinerlei Meeressäugetiere von den Spotter-Teams und Luftbeobachtern erkannt werden konnten, wurde am 18. Juni vor der Küste Floridas der erste Anlauf mit einer etwa 18 Kilotonnen starken Sprengladung als full ship shock trial gezündet, was als ein Erdbeben der Stärke 3,9 auf der Richterskala an...
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After the Spanish defence minister had provisionally agreed to the supply stopover of the destroyer VIZEADMIRAL KULAKOW (UDALOY class), which belongs to the Russian Northern Fleet, and its escort tug ALTAY in the Spanish enclave of Ceuta on the north coast of Morocco, which had been requested for the end of August, the foreign minister José Manuel Albares, who had just taken over in June, cancelled the project at short notice. He had not received an answer from Russia to his question about the association's further plans after the supply had been made - and immediately lowered the barrier of "goodwill" again. Two other points can also be seen as the background to this: Firstly, Madrid wants to give the autonomous enclave a somewhat...
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What began as a rumour at the start of 2019 has now become a reality: Turkmenistan's President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow has commissioned the first TURKMEN-class corvette, named DENIZ HAN, at the naval base on the eastern outskirts of Türkmenbaşy. Initially known as the C 92, the design from the two Istanbul shipyards Dearsan and Gülhan is a corvette just over 90 metres long and displacing 1600 tonnes with a Turkish Gökdeniz CIWS from Aselsan and a 76-millimetre cannon as its main armament. Now that was a lot of Turkish, but Dearsan is Turkmenistan's favourite naval shipyard and has already built 25 units of various sizes for the country. This type...
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The sailing training ship Juan Sebastian Elcano returned to its home port of Cadiz in mid-June from its 93rd training voyage abroad and eleventh circumnavigation. Due to the worsening coronavirus situation in the country, the ship arrived a month earlier than planned. As a traditional welcome to the crew, the Spanish King Felipe VI spent the last night on board before entering the harbour - at anchor in the Gulf of Cadiz. For ten months, the crew (200) and cadet crew (20) worked and lived exclusively on board the four-masted square-rigged schooner because no shore leave was allowed due to the strictest precautionary measures against infection with the virus. However, the first vaccinations were also...
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