MTU Maintenance Berlin-Brandenburg has been awarded a contract by the US Department of Defence for the repair and maintenance of LM2500 turbines. The turbines used in the Arleigh Burke and Ticonderoga class ships are to be repaired and overhauled in Ludwigsfelde, south of Berlin, by June 2027. The contract worth just under 68 million dollars is shared...
Any German submariner would be envious: Over the past few days, the British navy has been carrying out torpedo tests in the Caribbean. So instead of cold weather and overpriced beer, it's sunshine and cocktails. And with a suntan and target water, it obviously shoots well too, because the revised version of the Spearfish torpedo has the initial...
On Friday, 14 May 2021, the ships and boats of the NATO mine countermeasures group SNMCMG 1 (Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1) moored at Warnemünde naval base. They will stay until next Monday. In addition to the German minehunter Sulzbach-Rosenberg, the mine defence group currently includes four other minehunters from Estonia, England, Belgium and the Netherlands....
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...
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