Russian catamaran corvette SAMUM (Surface Effect Ship) fires missiles during a training exercise in the Black Sea off the Crimea. The two 30-year-old corvettes of this type are still considered to be the fastest ships in the Russian Federation.
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On the occasion of the Spanish-Turkish intergovernmental talks that have just taken place in Ankara, President Erdogan offered the Spanish President Pedro Sanchez extended cooperation opportunities in shipbuilding for the future. This could involve a somewhat larger aircraft carrier as well as new submarines similar to the S-80 type currently under construction.
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On Monday, 15 November 2021, the 23rd attack submarine of the VIRGINIA class was christened "USS New Jersey" in Newport News. It is the first boat of "Block IV" and the first submarine in the USA to be built according to new, gender-neutral criteria.
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As a seafarer, you don't want to have to look at these pictures, but as a chronicler of maritime events, you can't close your eyes to them. The Rio Guayas through the centre of Ecuador's port city of Guayaquil, home to 3 million people, can be a killer! At its narrowest point, a smart pedestrian bridge was built from the city to the green island of Santay in 2014, but in 2017 and 2018, two military units failed in their attempt to defy the fierce tidal current to catch the open passage. After the delicate-looking bridge had only recently been repaired, the Ecuadorian Navy asked the President of Ecuador via the Ministry of Defence to dismantle it again in mid-September.
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The opponents could not have been more dissimilar: a smart sail training ship similar to the GORCH FOCK and a highly motorised, semi-submersible drug smuggler! And yet the Ecuadorian three-masted barque GUAYAS managed the feat of intercepting and apprehending the drug-laden speedboat on its journey north. Sheer luck and bad luck helped the commander - on the one hand favourable winds and constant information about the change of situation from the American air surveillance of the anti-drug task force, on the other hand the failure of two of the three outboard engines and perhaps also the impressive silhouette of a three-master from a frog's-eye view. Even if the sailor could only run at 10 knots at best, the boat would have a clear advantage at 40 knots...
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