The Iranian Revolutionary Guards officially put their new "helicopter carrier" into service in Bandar Abbas at the beginning of the week and named it after their Guard leader Major General Qasem Soleimani, who was killed in an American drone attack in January 2020 and was also given the honourable title of "martyr". Powerhouse The completely nationally designed...
Marinha do Brasil: "S-40 Riachuelo" put into service On 1 September 2022, the Brazilian Navy put the "S-40 Riachuelo" submarine into service. The unit is the first of four new submarines with conventional propulsion (NATO classification SSK). When it was launched in December 2018, it was already scheduled to enter service in 2020.
Fincantieri's American subsidiary, Fincantieri Marinette Marine, began construction of the first Constellation-class frigate at the company's own shipyard in Marinette, Wisconsin, on 31 August 2022. According to the press release issued by the US Navy programme office responsible for the project, construction number 1, the "USS Constellation" (FFG 62), is scheduled to be...
Following the strengthening of Ukrainian coastal defences in the north-west quadrant of the Black Sea in recent weeks, the southern offensive just launched by the Ukrainian armed forces could promise success, as Russia is clearly no longer in a position to control and "hold down" this section of coastline from the sea. On the contrary: Ukraine has...
A Russian convoy consisting of the cruiser "Marshal Ustinov" (Slava class, project 1164, sister ship of the "Moskva"), the destroyer "Vice Admiral Kulakov" (type ship of the Udaloy class, project 1155) and the tanker "Vyazma" (Kaliningradneft class) is reportedly on a transfer from the Mediterranean back to the Northern Fleet and its home ports on the Barents Sea. The...
Three weeks ago, the Ukrainian news agency "The Guildhall Agency" published a satellite image that led reconnaissance officers in Kiev to conclude that Kalibr cruise missiles were being reloaded on the frigate "Admiral Grigorovich" at the naval base in Sevastopol. The recordings date from 10 August - the following day, the Ukrainian air defence forces reported the firing of two...
Shipping industry wants to remove the classification as a high-risk area There are increasing calls from shipping organisations to remove the high-risk area in the Indian Ocean. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) of the United Nations was informed today - before the next meeting of its Maritime Safety Committee on 31 October - by the International Chamber of Shipping (ICS), BIMCO, the International...
In mid-August, Polish shipbuilder Remontowa Shipbuilding handed over the second boat of the Kormoran class minehunter (project 528, 850 tonnes) to the Polish Navy. The 58 metre long "Albatros" had previously undergone several months of sea trials and acceptance voyages to prove the full functionality of all systems on board. This was also...
The topic of hypersonic weapons is also slowly taking shape in the US Navy! Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) has been selected to install the first launch systems for the American missiles in the Zumwalt-class destroyers USS Zumwalt and USS Michael Monsoor, according to the Naval Sea Systems Command. The modernisation measures...
Every now and then you have to pull out an old message and give it a new status. This is also the case here. The F/A-18E Super Hornet fighter aircraft that was swept off the flight deck of the USS Harry S. Truman in the Mediterranean on 8 July due to sudden adverse weather conditions was recovered in less than 24...
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