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...
Tall ship meets aircraft carrier: US Navy compliments the Signora It was on 12 July 1962: The US aircraft carrier "USS Independence" encountered the "Amerigo Vespucci" in the Mediterranean under full sail and asked her to identify herself by light signal. The Italian three-masted ship, which had been launched in February 1931, gave...
As already announced here ten days ago, the Kiel shipyard used the SMM 2022, which has just ended in Hamburg, to present a new corvette design. Here are a few more details that might interest you. The new Seaguard 96 is an "innovative high-end corvette that will be used in...
"Toxic" aircraft carrier returns to Brazil Officials in Turkey have confirmed it: the decommissioned aircraft carrier NAE São Paulo of the Brazilian Navy, which was to be scrapped in Aliaga, has changed course and is on its way back to Brazil. The tugboat of the aircraft carrier has changed its AIS signal and...
On Friday (2 September), the Iranian navy announced that it had seized two American-made sailing drones in the Red Sea because they were apparently "ownerless and uncontrolled, threatening the navigational safety of shipping". After receiving two calls from an American destroyer in the sea area, the two drones were unceremoniously taken on board the Iranian...
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...
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