After taking part in the Russian Navy Day celebrations in Saint Petersburg at the end of July, the new submarine "Magadan" (B-602) of the modified Kilo II class (project 636.3) was allowed to embark on a relocation voyage lasting several months. The submarine, which was put into service on 12 October 2021, was deployed on the 9,000 nautical mile...
The Bulgarian counterintelligence service DANS (State Agency for National Security) in Sofia is investigating Russian allegations that the lorry blown up on the Crimean bridge came from that country. The previous Sunday, the head of the Russian investigative committee, Alexander Bastrykin, announced at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that...
Acting Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on Monday rejected Russia's demands for transparency in the Swedish investigation into the gas leaks in the Baltic Sea last week. Russia had sent a letter to the Swedish government asking it to investigate the gas leak. This came after Sweden rejected Russia's repeated demands for more...
Landsberg am Lech, 11 October 2022 - The government of Sierra Leone has officially invited Mercy Ships to carry out a mission in the African country with the Global Mercy from late summer 2023. The mission is a deepening of the long-standing cooperation between Sierra Leone and Mercy Ships. While...
Available on the website of the Dutch Ministry of Defence since 30 September 2022: the request for quotation will be sent to the three competing shipyards in mid-November 2022. The Hague expects Damen, Naval Group and tkMS to submit a proposal by summer 2023. For four submarines - considerations to reduce the number of...
The Colombian Ministry of Defence has confirmed the signing of a contract between the Dutch Damen shipyard and the state-owned shipbuilding complex Cotecmar (Corporación de Ciencia y Tecnología para el Desarrollo de la Industria Naval Marítima y Fluvial). The object of the contract is the construction documentation for Colombia's new frigate PES (Plataforma Estrategia de Superficie - Strategic Surface Unit),...
According to the Israeli Ministry of Defence, in mid-September the Sa'ar 6 corvette "Oz" (translated: courage), the second of the four Magen-class units (90 metres in length, 1,900 tonnes) built by tkMS in Kiel, successfully fired a "Gabriel V" sea target missile as part of the weapons technology equipment and verification process. This missile belongs to the latest variant...
In spring 2018, the US Marines received the first newly built Sikorsky CH-53K King Stallion heavy-lift transport helicopter to replace the now obsolete CH-53E Super Stallion heavy-lift helicopter. Now it has taken another four years, filled with performance tests under extreme climatic conditions and up to technically feasible flight altitudes, until the end of...
In view of the war in Ukraine, NATO's Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM, Northwood, UK) has this year combined the NATO manoeuvre "Dynamic Mariner" with the Turkish Navy's manoeuvre "Mavi Balina 22" to form a major multinational manoeuvre that will take place from 11 to 18 September in the eastern Mediterranean. Manoeuvre participation The aim of the manoeuvre is...
For six months - the entire period of Russia's ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine - HMS Audacious, the UK's newest operational Hunter-Killer nuclear submarine, has been on patrol in the Mediterranean. While above, NATO surface units were monitoring shipping traffic as part of Operation Sea Guardian - and primarily keeping an eye on...
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