Flotilla Admiral Ralf Kuchler, Commander of Operational Flotilla 2 in Wilhelmshaven, visited Bremen to find out about the work of 20 marines who provide support in the area of contact tracing at the health department. In addition to the tasks to be performed there, Kuchler was also interested in the accommodation and care of the soldiers during their time in the...
New ships require a new hall, or so the British shipyard Babcock thought. A huge steel structure is currently being built in Rosyth, Scotland, for the construction of the Type 31 frigates. From 2021, the 147-metre-long building will enable the construction of two new frigates side by side, regardless of the weather. Once completed, the new buildings will leave...
There is still 'room for improvement' here too, but the naval aviators and Operational Flotilla 1 are once again one step ahead: the first part of the operational test of the unmanned aerial vehicle "Sea Falcon" on the corvette "Braunschweig" has been completed. It will continue in the new year; there is still a lot of work to be done before it can be deployed ...
...On 15 December, the main contingent of Naval Air Wing 3 "Graf Zeppelin" returned to Germany after more than four months of deployment as part of EU Operation Atalanta. A few days earlier, the mission crew had already landed in Nordholz with the P-3C Orion after an eleven-hour flight from Djibouti. The operational contingent, led by the head of department...
Even after decades, they are still a hot topic, especially when it comes to unsettling news with a coronavirus background: flying saucers in America. Since the beginning of the year, various information about sightings of unexplained phenomena (UFOs) by US Navy and Marines jet pilots, primarily in the area of...
It's worth the wait! Almost 35 years after the hit film Top Gun, actor Tom Cruise (58) and producer Jerry Bruckheimer (77) were awarded the US Navy's Golden Pilot's Medal in mid-October at Paramount Studios in Los Angeles. The cult film from 1986 had "touched the hearts of millions...
The HANSANDO, which displaces 4500 tonnes, can take up to 300 student officers on board with a crew of 120. In the South Korean navy, the cadets are in their third year of sea training, which they had previously undergone in shifts on board the regular units. The bridge, operations centre, armament and engine rooms are duplicated. The vertical...
The training ships' trips abroad also look very different in times of coronavirus. On 24 August, the training sailing ship JUAN SEBASTIAN DE ELCANO set sail from a quarantine zone in the port of Cadiz in south-west Spain on its 93rd training voyage. The special thing about it was that it was not only the fifth circumnavigation of the almost hundred-year-old...
During its Eunavfor deployment as part of Operation Atalanta off the coast of Somalia, the Spanish Navy was able to deploy its RPAS (remotely piloted aircraft system) ScanEagle from Boeing Insitu from on board the frigate REINA SOFIA (SANTA MARIA class) for the first time. The Spanish Navy's drone squadron, which is based in Cadiz, has three...
On 6 October, the Russian Navy released the Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile from aboard the frigate ADMIRAL GORSCHKOW (Project 22350) for the first time and fired it at a maximum distance of 450 kilometres at eight times the speed of sound at a target in the Barents Sea. The entire sequence lasted less than five minutes. This was...
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