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...
Following the strengthening of Ukrainian coastal defences in the north-west quadrant of the Black Sea in recent weeks, the southern offensive just launched by the Ukrainian armed forces could promise success, as Russia is clearly no longer in a position to control and "hold down" this section of coastline from the sea. On the contrary: Ukraine has...
A Russian convoy consisting of the cruiser "Marshal Ustinov" (Slava class, project 1164, sister ship of the "Moskva"), the destroyer "Vice Admiral Kulakov" (type ship of the Udaloy class, project 1155) and the tanker "Vyazma" (Kaliningradneft class) is reportedly on a transfer from the Mediterranean back to the Northern Fleet and its home ports on the Barents Sea. The...
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