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SOUTH KOREA: Finally a real training ship again!

SOUTH KOREA: Finally a real training ship again!

Posted by | 14 Dec 2020 | , | 0

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 have a double layout. However, the vertically installed missile silo is not equipped. In addition to conference rooms, training laboratories and a simulation computer, there is a helicopter deck and hangar, as well as an infirmary, medical operating theatre and a negative pressure isolation chamber for combating viruses and epidemics....

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SPAIN: Sailing training ship JUAN SEBASTIAN DE ELCANO leaves port

SPAIN: Sailing training ship JUAN SEBASTIAN DE ELCANO leaves port

Posted by | 14 Dec 2020 | , , | 0

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 just the fifth circumnavigation of the almost hundred-year-old four-masted topsail schooner. This round-the-world voyage is being organised to mark the 500th anniversary of the voyage of discovery of its namesake, who completed the voyage started by Magellan with five ships and 270 men after three years - with just 18 men and one ship. Times have changed. Before the expiry date...

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SPAIN: first operational use of the ScanEagle drone

SPAIN: first operational use of the ScanEagle drone

Posted by | 14 Dec 2020 | , , | 0

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 based in Cadiz has three systems, each with four drones and a remote control station. It is a fairly inexpensive system with good endurance (18 hours), a simple launch pad and even simpler landing procedure, which can be viewed on Twitter #rpas or @Armada_esp. The US Marines and US Navy have been using these systems since 2005. In the meantime...

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RUSSIA: Test of the Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile

RUSSIA: Test of the Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile

Posted by | 14 Dec 2020 | , | 0

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 took less than five minutes. This meant that it was not even necessary to use the 24-hour time buffer in case something went wrong. Just in time for his 68th birthday the following day, Army General Valery Gerasimov, Chief of the General Staff and Deputy Minister of Defence, was able to present the report of the successful shot to his President in due form and with complete peace of mind....

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PHILIPPINES: two new Leonardo AW159 Wildcat ASW helicopters

PHILIPPINES: two new Leonardo AW159 Wildcat ASW helicopters

Posted by | 14 Dec 2020 | , | 0

To mark its 120th birthday last year, the island nation's navy treated itself to two Leonardo AW159 Wildcat ASW helicopters, which have now been ceremonially put into service at the Danielo Atienza airbase near Manila. From there, they will be used as on-board helicopters for the two South Korean-built JOSE-RIZAL frigates. Two further helicopters are to complete the quartet, but are still on the wish list. This makes the Philippines the second export customer for the Italian manufacturer after South Korea. Bangladesh will be the third in the group with two helicopters on order...

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