Before the year 2022 comes to an end, the first aircraft carrier VIKRANT to be built exclusively in India is due to enter service. However, a series of functional tests and sea trials lie ahead of this. Initial tests The ship has already passed some of these tests in two test voyages: At the beginning of August 2021, the...
It almost looks as if the USA had "forgotten" its NATO partner Spain during the last entry of the HARRY S. TRUMAN carrier group into the Mediterranean. The Spanish Armada routinely provides an escort frigate not only for such carrier groups, but also for other warships sailing around the south of Spain. The point is to...
marineforum has been following developments in the Arctic and the North Atlantic for some time now. Because the ice is melting - faster than some would like - too slowly for others. The landscape is changing faster than in the rest of the world, and with it the conditions. There are...
During her visit to Ukraine on 18 December 2021, Danish Defence Minister Trine Bramsen signed a memorandum of understanding on the provision of Danish naval technology to the Eastern European country. Denmark is the third country, after Turkey and the United Kingdom, with which Ukraine has signed such a shipbuilding cooperation agreement.
New minesweepers for South Korea In mid-November, the minesweeper NAMHAE, the first of three of the second batch of the YANGYANG class, was hoisted in Busan. However, the last unit of the first batch of this class was commissioned fifteen years ago. Although identical hulls have now been built for the second...
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Icebreaker in Argentina - Almirante Irizar The main burden of the currently possible seasonal voyages to supply the thirteen Antarctic stations in the small but elongated sector of Argentina is borne by the almost 45-year-old supply icebreaker ALMIRANTE IRIZAR. Although a fire in the generator system had destroyed the 15,000 metre ship built by Wärtsilä in...
The issue of the VIRGINIA-class Block IV submarine USS NEW JERSEY, which is gender-neutral in its accommodation and hygiene areas (see news from 18 November 2021), is still going on, but some conservative politicians and commentators in the USA took it too far: at the beginning of November, the US Navy...
Grupo CPS, a Spanish innovation forge in the south-west of Madrid, has shown the various areas of responsibility in the Armada - from the Admiral's Staff to the Air Flotilla and the Naval Armaments Department - what possibilities lie in a relatively simple RPAS (Remotely Piloted Aircraft System). Originally developed as a private initiative for the fishing industry to...
With the end of the Cold War, many countries around the Baltic Sea disbanded their coastal defence squadrons and scrapped their missiles. Not so the navy of the Russian Federation, which has continuously developed the weapon systems of its Baltic Fleet. It now looks as though this resource-saving method of combating sea targets in marginal seas will be...
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