Last week, a Tu-142 from Russia's Pacific Fleet practised flying over the sea. During the ten-hour flight, the two crews covered around 8000 kilometres. The focus was on the use of the aircraft far from radar-monitored airspace. According to Russian information, the Tupolev was flown over by F/A-18 fighter jets for...
The US Navy has ordered three more AN/SPN-50(V) radar systems from the manufacturer Saab. This is an option from the contract concluded in October last year, under which two devices have already been ordered. The price is quoted at just under 32 million dollars. The systems are to be delivered by the end of 2022....
Since the end of last week, up to 500 people at Norfolk Naval Base and Naval Air Station Oceana have been able to be vaccinated against the coronavirus every day without an appointment. This is in addition to the regular vaccinations that are offered to certain units on a voluntary basis. The additional vaccinations are issued on the basis of...
Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding once again christened a destroyer for the US Navy on 24 April. The Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) was supposed to undergo this ceremony last year, but the pandemic threw a spanner in the works for the Navy. The ship is named after a nurse who...
After four days, the Indonesian naval submarine has been found. This was announced by the army chief of the Southeast Asian country. The 53 people on board are dead. The almost 60 metre long submarine had lost contact with the fleet during an exercise early on Wednesday morning. At the time, it was around 95 metres...
Portugal will also soon be able to boast a Nato Centre of Excellence. The Nato Maritime Geospatial, Meterological & Oceanographic Centre of Excellence (MGEOMETC COE) is currently in the process of being accredited. It is being established at the Hydrographic Institute of the Portuguese Navy. Once accredited, it will be the first Portuguese centre of excellence to...
On 22 April, Boeing received an order from the US Department of Defence to modernise the P-8A. The contract is worth just under 90 million dollars and runs until 2024. The money will be used to bring the systems and software of the maritime patrol aircraft up to date. Text: mb; Photo: Boeing
...After 80 days, the French amphibious group centred around the helicopter carrier Dixmude has left the Gulf of Guinea. On board the carrier are the French Groupe tactique embarqué (GTE) Dragon and Portuguese Fuzileiros. They were deployed off the African coast as part of the 156th Operation Corymbe mandate....
The Dutch Van Speijk is leaving operational readiness ahead of schedule. This was announced by the country's Ministry of Defence on 22 April, after the crew had already been informed the day before. The reason is a significant personnel shortage on board. The crew will be reassigned to other ships in the Dutch navy at short notice, for example on the sister ship...
The future Canadian Surface Combatants (CSC) will be equipped with the Sea Ceptor air defence system from MBDA. Its missiles are based on the Common Anti-Air Modular Missile (CAMM). They are quickly deployable and can be utilised at a high cadence so that several threats can be combated simultaneously. One of the Sea Ceptor's special features is the so-called...
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