Category: Security policy

Bund kauft Werft

Bund kauft Werft

Gepostet von | 13 Jan 2023 | , , | 1

Neuer alter Name aus DDR Zeiten: Warnowwerft Was zunächst wie eine aus Verzweiflung geborene Idee klang, ist ernsthaft Wirklichkeit geworden. Geht nicht gibt’s nicht, schien das Motto dieses Großvorhabens zu sein – und ohne den Ukraine Krieg wären derartige schnelle und pragmatische Lösungen wahrscheinlich immer noch im Dschungel von Bürokraten, Regelungsversessenen und Prüfprozessen. Dabei scheint es doch zu passen: Die jahrzehntelange Mangelwirtschaft in der Bundeswehr hat bei der Marine Schaden hinterlassen, Instandsetzungen und Liegezeiten sind langwierig und komplex, die Verfügbarkeit von Einheiten der ohnehin viel zu kleinen Marine ist schlecht. Auf der anderen Seite war das Aus der traditionsreichen...

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Russian "Yasen" class attack submarines with hypersonic weapons from 2026

Russian "Yasen" class attack submarines with hypersonic weapons from 2026

Gepostet von | 12 Jan 2023 | , , , | 1

The "Yasen" class (Project 885/885M, 133 metres, 12,000 tonnes submerged) is the benchmark for Russia's nuclear-powered attack submarines. The type boat K-560 "Severodvinsk" has been on its keel for 30 years, but the subsequently modified M-boats only followed a good 15 years later. Construction numbers 2 and 3, K-561 "Kazan" and K-573 "Novosibirsk", are already in service with the Northern Fleet - the following three boats, K-571 "Krasnoyarsk", K-564 "Arkhangelsk" and "Perm", are to be assigned to the Pacific Fleet, with K-571 currently undergoing its functional trials with the Northern Fleet. The boats have four launch modules on both sides, each of which can be equipped with four 3M55/3M54...

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India: Decision made in favour of 26 Dassault Rafale M

India: Decision made in favour of 26 Dassault Rafale M

Gepostet von | 11 Jan 2023 | , , | 0

Boeing had strengthened the landing gear and made other changes to the F/A-18 E/F, which is actually only capable of catapult take-off, in order to meet India's demand for ski-jump-capable carrier aircraft for the Indian home-built "Vikrant", and even demonstrated the modified Super Hornets on site at the "Hansa" naval air base in Goa in western India - but none of this helped: At the turn of the year, India decided against the Super Hornet and in favour of the French Dassault Rafale M. An act of state This decision is to be officially announced during a visit by French President Emmanuel Macron to India in March to mark the anniversary of 25 years of strategic cooperation...

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Russian aircraft carrier: shipyard laytime and speculation

Russian aircraft carrier: shipyard laytime and speculation

Gepostet von | 10 Jan 2023 | , , , | 1

Shortly before Christmas, it happened after all: another fire broke out on the Russian aircraft carrier "Admiral Kuznetsov", which was undergoing repairs and modernisation in Murmansk, but this time it was brought under control quickly and without any significant personal injury. This sort of thing happens during shipyard layovers and it wouldn't really be worth reporting if Moscow didn't want to present proud flagships, newbuildings, launches and commissioning at home at a time of bad news from Ukraine (see reports on this elsewhere). After all, the somewhat hapless progress of work on the largest warship and only carrier of the Russian Federation, which has now been going on for five years, does not play into Moscow's hands...

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Russia: Admiral Gorshkov departed with Zircon

Russia: Admiral Gorshkov departed with Zircon

Gepostet von | 7 Jan 2023 | , , , | 3

Shortly before the end of the year, the guided missile frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" (type ship, project 22350, 135 metres, 4,500 tonnes) allegedly left Severomorsk, the Arctic home port of the Russian Northern Fleet off Murmansk on Kola Bay, with a load of the nuclear-capable hypersonic missile "Zircon". According to information from Moscow, it is to act as a command platform and lead a convoy towards the Mediterranean from January - no doubt also as a show of force against the West. However, no details were given about planned port calls or supply stops. Successor to the Krivak-class The "Gorshkov" had already carried out various test firings of the "Zircon", which flies at nine times the speed of sound (11,265 kmh), in the Barents Sea at the beginning of 2022, including one firing...

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