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South Korea - First US cargo ship successfully repaired

South Korea - First US cargo ship successfully repaired

Gepostet von | 9 Apr 2025 | , , | 0

In July 2024, the South Korean shipyard Hanwha Ocean signed a Master Ship Repair Agreement with the US Naval Supply Systems Command to expand both its maintenance business and its relationship with the US Navy. And the US Navy is relying on these capabilities to mitigate its own lack of shipyard capacity, personnel shortages and cost and distance issues in its maintenance programmes. Marineforum reported on this in November 2024: "South Korea - new order for the US Navy". Now Hanwha Ocean has completed an extensive overhaul project for USNS "Wally Schirra". The 40,000-tonne Lewis and Clark-class dry cargo ship belongs to the Military Sealift Command and has been on the...

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Netherlands - Navy receives fast patrol boats

Netherlands - Navy receives fast patrol boats

Gepostet von | 8 Apr 2025 | , , | 0

The Ministry of Defence is procuring thirteen new boats for the Royal Netherlands Navy to replace the current Fast Raiding Interception Special Forces Craft (FRISC). The contracts with the De Haas Maassluis B.V. shipyard in Rotterdam were signed in March and the first Future Fast Interceptors (FFI) are due to be delivered in around 3 to 4 years. The new boats are more modern, faster and more heavily armed than the FRISC, have an improved sensor and communication system and are less easy for enemies to recognise. In addition, the physical strain on personnel has been reduced. Innovations to the hull...

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Russia: Combat icebreaker Ivan Papanin in Severomorsk

Russia: Combat icebreaker Ivan Papanin in Severomorsk

Gepostet von | 7 Apr 2025 | , , , | 1

On 31 March 2025, the "Ivan Papanin", Russia's first "combat icebreaker", reached its home port of Severomorsk after being observed leaving the Baltic Sea on 25 March. According to information from the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation, the ship is to carry out ice trials over the next three months near Franz Josef Land, the archipelago between Svalbard and Severnaya Zemlya about 1,000 kilometres north of Murmansk. The "Ivan Papanin" is not a classic icebreaker, but a patrol vessel assigned to the navy, which has an ice class of at least Arc6. This means it is capable of breaking ice up to 1.6 metres thick. It was launched on 19 April 2017...

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South Korea: US submarine in Busan - North Korea warns

South Korea: US submarine in Busan - North Korea warns

Gepostet von | 17 Mar 2025 | , , | 0

USS "Alexandria" visits South Korea - North Korea reacts with harsh criticism The USS "Alexandria" (SSN-757), a fast, nuclear-powered Los Angeles-class attack submarine, has docked in Busan (about 200 miles south-east of Seoul, opposite Japan), according to a spokesman for U.S. Naval Forces Korea. No further details were released. The "Alexandria" (6,900 tonnes), which was commissioned in 1991, is equipped with conventional weapons. North Korea's reaction: harsh criticism of the USA North Korea's state media reacted immediately and described the arrival of the US submarine as an "undeniable threat". They accused the USA of further fuelling tensions on the Korean peninsula and warned again of "countermeasures". In addition...

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