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Didn't get away with it!

Didn't get away with it!

Gepostet von | 10 Sep 2022 | , , , | 0

"Toxic" aircraft carrier returns to Brazil Officials in Turkey have confirmed it: the decommissioned Brazilian Navy aircraft carrier NAE São Paulo, which was due to be scrapped in Aliaga, has changed course and is on its way back to Brazil. The tug of the aircraft carrier has changed its AIS signal and now indicates that it will arrive back in Rio de Janeiro on 2 October. The two-month round trip follows a similar pattern to the odyssey of its sister ship, the French aircraft carrier "Clemenceau", which was also turned away in 2006, then in India. As with her sister ship, the "São...

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Gorch Fock back in Kiel on 9 September

Gorch Fock back in Kiel on 9 September

Gepostet von | 9 Sep 2022 | , , | 0

On Friday, 9 September 2022, the sail training ship "Gorch Fock" arrived in its home port of Kiel. The crew was welcomed by Flotilla Admiral Jens Nemeyer, Commander of the Mürwik Naval School. The day before, Kristina Herbst, the new president of the CDU state parliament in Schleswig-Holstein, had welcomed the Gorch Fock to the roadstead in the Kiel Fjord. After a good five weeks and around 2,500 nautical miles, this marks the end of the 174th foreign training voyage (AAR) and thus the first voyage of the new commander, Captain Andreas-Peter Graf von Kielmannsegg (55). "My main hope with this voyage was to achieve the training objective for the officer cadets and at the same time to fulfil...

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Frigate "Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania" joins NATO organisation

Frigate "Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania" joins NATO organisation

Gepostet von | 8 Sep 2022 | , , , | 0

On Wednesday, 7 September 2022 at 10 a.m., the frigate "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" departed Wilhelmshaven to take part in a permanent NATO fleet formation. "We were already part of the Very High Readiness Task Force (VJTF) for almost two months in the spring of this year and are now, after a short summer break, returning to the NATO organisation before continuing seamlessly with national exercises from mid-October," says frigate captain Hendrik Wißler (42). The commander of the ship continues: "The crew and I are therefore looking forward to the reunion with our NATO allies and are confidently embarking on this once again intensive deployment and training voyage under the banner of...

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Iranian navy on a privateer voyage - sail drones in tow!

Iranian navy on a privateer voyage - sail drones in tow!

Gepostet von | 7 Sep 2022 | , , , | 4

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". Following two calls from an American destroyer in the sea area, the two drones were taken on board the Iranian destroyer "Jamaran" without further ado and released again after an inspection away from the shipping lanes. This was combined with a request to the US Navy to please prevent such incidents in future. Iranian state television published corresponding scenes from on board the destroyer. On the American side, this then sounded...

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Iranian Revolutionary Guards: New helicopter carrier put into service

Iranian Revolutionary Guards: New helicopter carrier put into service

Gepostet von | 7 Sep 2022 | , , | 0

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 catamaran, which was designed entirely by the Iranian government, is classified as a "frigate" (FS 313-01), although its dimensions are quite compact at just 50 to 60 metres in length (estimated), which is typical for a boat. With four propulsion units manufactured in Iran, it is well motorised for high or long voyages. As far as the armament is concerned, the "Shahid Soleimani" is equipped with...

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