On the morning of 7 July 2022, the Russian frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" (Hull number 454) passed through the Fehmarnbelt. The ship, which belongs to the Northern Fleet of the Russian Federation, is expected to take part in the Russian Navy's naval parade in Kronstadt/St. Petersburg. Remarkably, the 3D surveillance radar FURKE rotated. This appears to be unusual in that Russian units in the Russian...
An online article in the EU magazine euractiv takes a look at Ukraine's faltering grain exports and underpins it with very catchy graphics. Before the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the country exported 4 to 5 million tonnes of grain per month, mainly to countries in Africa and the Middle East. This trade was 90 %...
In order to support Ukraine's ability to better control its coastline, waterways and ports and protect them against Russian invasion, the USA is supplying a total of 23 Metal Shark aluminium small boats (Franklin and Jeanerette, Louisiana) at short notice. These will probably be 6 boats of the Defiant-45 type, 14 boats of the...
Are you looking for a place on Google Maps where you've probably never been with your cursor? Enter "Puerto Nariño". It's the southernmost tip of Colombia, 80 kilometres of Amazon riverbank in the Amacayacu National Park, sparsely populated and inaccessible in the middle of the jungle. Here at the border triangle of Brazil, Colombia and Peru, a thousand kilometres...
It actually looks quite simple, but technically it is a small stroke of genius: SpearUAV in Israel has solved the problem of a miniature flying drone that can be used underwater and can carry out reconnaissance over water - it is called the "Ninox 103 UW Sub-to-Air". At Undersea Defence Technology in Rotterdam, the Israeli company from Tel Aviv presented the...
In July 2017, the U.S. Navy's Department of Defence announced the tender for the FFG(X) frigate project with twenty units. The FFG(X) was to be the successor to the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS, Independence and Freedom classes), which did not quite meet the expectations of the Navy due to its complex, expensive and vulnerable modularity.
Admiral Nikolai Yevmenov confirmed that 46 new units will be added to the Russian Navy in 2022 - 50 ships are already in various stages of construction at the country's shipyards. The Russian naval commander made these statements during a media-effective, multiple naval defence conference held in St. Petersburg via video conference.
USS Fort Lauderdale In mid-March 2022, the Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) Shipbuilding Division in Pascagoula, Mississippi, delivered the USS Fort Lauderdale (LPD 28), the twelfth of the San Antonio-class amphibious dock landing transports, to the US Navy. According to some further evidence, Fort Lauderdale will be adding to its contingent of Marines, its conventional...
After the keel for the first Belgian boat (as yet unnamed) was laid at the beginning of December 2021, the keel for the HNLMS Vlissingen, the first Dutch boat, was also celebrated in mid-June at the Naval Group in Lanester/Lorient. In line with the 2019 agreement with Belgium Naval &...
Their five-year trip to East Asia, or Indo-Asia-Pacific Deployment, began nine months ago. The two OPVs HMS Tamar and HMS Spey (Modified River class) are certainly no fat ships, but with a length of 81 metres and a displacement of 1,800 tonnes, they have to "shimmy" their way through in stages. In September from Portsmouth...
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