In his recently published book, Hugues Canuel, a naval officer in the Royal Canadian Navy, examines 25 years of French naval policy, which, after France's defeat in the Second World War, attempted to establish an independent, independent navy during the period of the armistice, the resistance against Germany, the alliance with the USA and Great Britain and the years of the Cold War....
A prototype of the improved SH-60K from Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) has been tested for the first time. The maiden flight took place at Nagoya Prefecture Airport on Honshu and lasted around 30 minutes. Since 2015, MHI has been involved in the further development of the aircraft, which has been in service with Japan Maritime Self...
Austal Australia has handed over two new patrol boats to the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard. They were named after the capital of the state, Port of Spain, and the capital of the island of Tobago, Scarborough. At just under 58 metres long and 10 metres wide, the Cape-class monohulls have a draught of three metres....
The US destroyer Arleigh Burke (DDG 51) moored at Kiel-Wik naval base on Wednesday morning after arriving from the central Baltic Sea. The ship, which was commissioned on 4 July 1991, has been part of the US Navy's Forward Deployed Naval Force-Europe (FDNF-E) since the second week of April and is stationed in Rota (Spain). Previously, the...
From 11 to 13 May, two ships from the Russian Pacific Fleet are visiting Singapore. The destroyer Admiral Tributs and the ocean-going tug Kalar have moored at Changi Naval Base to replenish supplies. The Tributs is a Project 1155 (Udaloy I) destroyer. At 163 metres in length, it displaces 6840 tonnes. To the...
On 10 May, EU, Japanese and Djiboutian naval and naval air warfare assets conducted a joint exercise in the Gulf of Aden. The exercise was based on the scenario of an anti-piracy operation. The participants were the Italian frigate "Carabiniere", currently the flagship of Operation Atalanta, the destroyer "Setogiri" of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defence Force (JMSDF), a Spanish P 3-M maritime reconnaissance vessel,...
The frigate Lübeck left her home port today, 11 May. After travelling around Europe, she will join the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG 2) in the Mediterranean. She will replace the tender Werra, which has been deployed there up to now and will then start its journey home to Kiel. On ship...
This concerns us all! Appeal for support for the German Naval Association The Laboe Naval Memorial is getting on in years and a thorough renovation is essential, also for safety reasons. A total of €4.6 million must be raised in order to carry out the necessary work. The federal government will provide €2.25 million, the state of Schleswig-Holstein...
The Australian shipyard Austal has handed over what is now the tenth Guardian-class patrol boat to the country's Ministry of Defence. In a small ceremony, the boat was then immediately handed over to the Solomon Islands, an island nation in the South Pacific. The Guardian class has a length of 39.5 metres and is based on the designs of the Bay-,...
Another incident occurred in the Strait of Hormuz this Monday evening (10 May). Thirteen Iranian Revolutionary Guards speedboats approached an American naval convoy passing through the Strait at high speed. The ships included the Ohio-class strategic nuclear submarine USS Georgia and the Ticonderoga cruiser Monterey. Despite signals...
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