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Russian aircraft carrier: shipyard laytime and speculation

Russian aircraft carrier: shipyard laytime and speculation

Posted by | 10 Jan 2023 | , , , | 1

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. This sort of thing happens during shipyard layovers and it wouldn't really be worth reporting if Moscow didn't want to present proud flagships, newbuildings, launches and commissioning at home at a time of bad news from Ukraine (see reports on this elsewhere). After all, the somewhat hapless progress of work on the largest warship and only carrier of the Russian Federation, which has now been going on for five years, does not play into Moscow's hands...

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Marokko vertragseinig mit Spanien über neue Korvette

Marokko vertragseinig mit Spanien über neue Korvette

Posted by | 9 Jan 2023 | , , | 0

Schon lange Jahre brütet man in der Königlich Marokkanischen Marine über der Frage zur Ergänzung des Flottenbestandes durch neue Küstenwachboote. Wunschobjekt wäre ein OPV 90 des Avante1800-Entwurfs von Navantia in Spanien - also etwas kleiner als die Avante2200 wie gerade für Saudi-Arabien ausgeliefert (Al Jubail-Klasse), aber eben auch größer als die Avante1400 (OPV 80) wie vor einigen Jahren schon gebaut für Venezuela und andere. Auch die Wahl von Navantia macht Sinn, liegt die Werft doch unmittelbar vor den Toren Marokkos auf der Gegenküste der Meerenge von Gibraltar. Wenn da nur nicht die Differenzen mit Spanien wären wegen der humanitären...

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Russia: Admiral Gorshkov departed with Zircon

Russia: Admiral Gorshkov departed with Zircon

Posted by | 7 Jan 2023 | , , , | 3

Shortly before the end of the year, 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, with a load of the nuclear-capable hypersonic missile "Zircon". According to information from Moscow, it is to act as a command platform and lead a convoy towards the Mediterranean from January - no doubt also as a show of force against the West. However, no details were given about planned port calls or supply stops. Successor to the Krivak-class The "Gorshkov" had already carried out various test firings of the "Zircon", which flies at nine times the speed of sound (11,265 kmh), in the Barents Sea at the beginning of 2022, including one firing...

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Joint naval exercises between China, Russia and South Africa in February 2023

Joint naval exercises between China, Russia and South Africa in February 2023

Posted by | 6 Jan 2023 | , , , , | 1

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 exercise is scheduled to kick off on 17 February in Richards Bay (KwaZulu Natal). Until 24 February, a series of the usual naval activities associated with such port calls are planned in addition to the provisioning of the visiting ships and the conferences in preparation for the exercise. This will be followed by a two-day sea phase from 25 February. To the...

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Spanien: Aus der Fischerei für die Marine – Airfox-Drohne

Spanien: Aus der Fischerei für die Marine – Airfox-Drohne

Posted by | 5 Jan 2023 | , , , | 1

Eigentlich hatte das kleine Elektronik-Unternehmen „Marine Instruments“ 2004 mit datenübertragenden Bojen für die Fischerei und Kleinboote angefangen, hat sich aber mittlerweile an die Spitze europäischer Hersteller maritimer Nischenprodukte katapultiert. Die in Nigrán/Pontevedra, südwestlich von Vigo im nordspanischen Galicia, angesiedelte Firma ist heute Teil des spanischen Technologie-Clusters Groupo Arbulu. Am Anfang war die Tunadrone Dank seiner seit 2019 im kommerziellen Fischfang (Thunfisch) nutzbaren „Tunadrone“, die Fische und Seevögel zu unterscheiden weiß, und deren Weiterentwicklung zum M5D-Airfox, der in Spaniens Gewässern erfolgreich in der Fischereiüberwachung und Seeverkehrskontrolle eingesetzt wird, interessiert sich derzeit nicht nur die US-Navy für den einfach zu operierenden...

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