Damen Naval and the Hamburgische Schiffbau-Versuchsanstalt (HSVA) have signed a contract for comprehensive cooperation in the field of hydrodynamic optimisation and the implementation of an extensive model test campaign for the new Class 126 frigates. The optimisation and tests are part of the early development phase during the ship design. In the process, the properties of the...
Last week saw a celebration at Tamsen Maritim in Rostock: The keel was laid for the second of the new wadden-compatible customs vessels. The 23-metre-long boats are made of aluminium and equipped with the latest technology. From the autumn of next year, they will be used as patrol boats in the German...
Huntington Ingalls Shipbuilding once again christened a destroyer for the US Navy on 24 April. The Lenah H. Sutcliffe Higbee (DDG 123) was supposed to undergo this ceremony last year, but the pandemic threw a spanner in the works for the Navy. The ship is named after a nurse who...
After four days, the Indonesian naval submarine has been found. This was announced by the army chief of the Southeast Asian country. The 53 people on board are dead. The almost 60 metre long submarine had lost contact with the fleet during an exercise early on Wednesday morning. At the time, it was around 95 metres...
Following the German government's investment in defence company Hensoldt last year, Italian company Leonardo has now acquired another large block of shares from financial investor Kohlberg Kravis & Roberts (KKR). The stake held by both anchor shareholders is 25.1 per cent each, giving each a blocking minority. According to its own information, Leonardo is paying around 606...
Portugal will also soon be able to boast a Nato Centre of Excellence. The Nato Maritime Geospatial, Meterological & Oceanographic Centre of Excellence (MGEOMETC COE) is currently in the process of being accredited. It is being established at the Hydrographic Institute of the Portuguese Navy. Once accredited, it will be the first Portuguese centre of excellence to...
On 22 April, Boeing received an order from the US Department of Defence to modernise the P-8A. The contract is worth just under 90 million dollars and runs until 2024. The money will be used to bring the systems and software of the maritime patrol aircraft up to date. Text: mb; Photo: Boeing
...After 80 days, the French amphibious group centred around the helicopter carrier Dixmude has left the Gulf of Guinea. On board the carrier are the French Groupe tactique embarqué (GTE) Dragon and Portuguese Fuzileiros. They were deployed off the African coast as part of the 156th Operation Corymbe mandate....
The Dutch Van Speijk is leaving operational readiness ahead of schedule. This was announced by the country's Ministry of Defence on 22 April, after the crew had already been informed the day before. The reason is a significant personnel shortage on board. The crew will be reassigned to other ships in the Dutch navy at short notice, for example on the sister ship...
The future Canadian Surface Combatants (CSC) will be equipped with the Sea Ceptor air defence system from MBDA. Its missiles are based on the Common Anti-Air Modular Missile (CAMM). They are quickly deployable and can be utilised at a high cadence so that several threats can be combated simultaneously. One of the Sea Ceptor's special features is the so-called...
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