It's only a short video, but it's sure to make even the most hardened sailor look up: Two warships in immediate need of manoeuvring! In early December, a situation arose in San Diego Bay in which the 16,000-tonne dock landing ship LSD 49 "USS Harpers Ferry" and the destroyer DDG...
New Zealand's navy is quite manageable anyway - two frigates (combat force) and four OPVs (patrol force, 2 large, 2 small), plus three modern support vessels (tanker Aotearoa, multipurpose supply vessel Canterbury, survey vessel Manawanui), that's it! Decommissioning due to lack of personnel Now the third of the OPVs has also been transferred to reserve status, as the New Zealanders...
Some do Christmas shopping - others lay the keels of two Virginia-class attack submarines in the space of 14 days! At the end of November, Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) in Hampton Roads, Virginia, performed the ceremonial keel authentication for the 27th Virginia-class attack submarine. SSN 800 will bear the name...
Navantia handed over "HAIL", the third of five Avante 2200 corvettes ordered in 2018, to the Royal Saudi Naval Force (RSNF) on the second Sunday of Advent 2022. In addition to the construction, the contract, which was valued at 1.8 billion euros at the time, includes logistical support and training - including the provision of training and instruction facilities for the weapons deployment and training...
The Israeli navy has completed the integration of the C-Dome short-range defence weapon system with a successful interception test. In February of this year, the first shots were fired from on board the corvette "Magen", the Sa'ar 6-class ship. In the current test, an aerial target was hit by the C-Dome system on board the corvette in a realistic scenario.
According to reports from the American television channel CNN, the Russian navy is preparing to launch the "doomsday torpedo" Poseidon, as the Pentagon refers to the Russian nuclear torpedo. At the beginning of November, US sources identified the departure of the carrier submarine "Belgorod" and its subsequent return to the home base. Since no test trials...
On 29 October 2022, the Russian Navy training ship RFS Smolniy (300) returned to the Baltic Sea from a training voyage lasting several months in the Far East via the Northern Sea Route. The 7,270-tonne, 138-metre-long ship had left Kronstadt on 1 August 2022 and arrived in...
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The recent visit of a Russian mega-yacht to Hong Kong has sparked speculation that the city could become a haven for oligarchs hiding from Western sanctions. The "Nord" - a $500 million vessel owned by Russian billionaire Alexei Mordashov - spent just over three weeks in Chinese territory before...
Israel and Lebanon: An interjection We could accept it as a historic agreement, as Lebanon and Israel have officially been at war for decades. Now, after years of negotiations, the two states have contractually agreed on a common maritime border. With the mediation of the USA, they have also agreed...
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