A robber's tale could hardly read better - but what happened off the coast of Gdansk should make you sit up and take notice. Midnight misfortune Late at night in mid-January, three divers were rescued from distress by the Polish coastguard and SAR services around three miles north of Gdansk when their small,...
The first of two ships intended for this task arrived in Birkenhead near Liverpool on Thursday, 19 January 2023. "Topaz Tangaroa" is to be repainted and refitted for military use at the Cammell Laird shipyard. In six months, she will then be painted grey for the Royal Navy at the Fleet...
The Russian Federation Navy's traditional Christmas fireworks display - but one that was probably necessary to mark the end of the calendar year - with keel layings, launches and commissioning was broadcast just in time on 29 December by President Vladimir Putin via video conference from his residence in Novo-Ogaryovo, 15 kilometres west of Moscow....
The multi-purpose frigates of the "Admiral Gorshkov" class (project 22350, 135 metres, 4,500 tonnes) were to be built in 2014 in a series of fifteen units and quickly replace various specialised, but also expensive and complex old-build frigates. This was the time of the launch and christening of the second platform with the name "Admiral Kasatonov"...
The "Yasen" class (Project 885/885M, 133 metres, 12,000 tonnes submerged) is the benchmark for Russia's nuclear-powered attack submarines. The type boat K-560 "Severodvinsk" has been on its keel for 30 years, but the subsequently modified M-boats only followed a good 15 years later. The construction numbers 2 and 3, K-561...
Boeing had strengthened the landing gear and made other modifications to the F/A-18 E/F, which is actually only capable of catapult take-off, in order to meet India's demand for ski-jump-capable carrier aircraft for the Indian home-built "Vikrant", and even demonstrated the modified Super Hornets on site at the "Hansa" naval air base in Goa in western India - it...
Shortly before Christmas it happened after all: another fire broke out on the Russian aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov", which was undergoing repairs and modernisation in Murmansk, but this time it was brought under control quickly and without any significant personal injury. Something like this happens during shipyard layovers and it wouldn't really be worth reporting...
For many years, the Royal Moroccan Navy has been pondering the question of adding new coast guard vessels to its fleet. The desired object would be an OPV 90 of the Avante1800 design from Navantia in Spain - somewhat smaller than the Avante2200 as just delivered for Saudi Arabia (Al Jubail class), but also larger than...
The guided missile frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" (type ship, project 22350, 135 metres, 4,500 tonnes) allegedly left Severomorsk, the Arctic home port of the Russian Northern Fleet off Murmansk on Kola Bay, shortly before the end of the year with a load of nuclear-capable hypersonic missiles "Zircon". According to Moscow, it will be used as a command platform from January to lead a convoy towards the Mediterranean...
Under the exercise name MOSI, two units of the navy of the Russian Federation and three ships of China's naval forces are to meet a unit of the South African navy off the east coast of South Africa. This was reported unanimously by the Russian news agency TASS and the South African online news portal Defence Web about joint activities between the naval forces of the three countries. The...
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