Category: Security policy

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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Joint naval exercises between China, Russia and South Africa in February 2023

Joint naval exercises between China, Russia and South Africa in February 2023

Gepostet von | 6 Jan 2023 | , , , , | 1

Under the exercise name MOSI, two units of the navy of the Russian Federation and three ships of China's naval forces are to meet a unit of the South African navy off the east coast of South Africa. This was reported unanimously by the Russian news agency TASS and the South African online news portal Defence Web about joint activities between the naval forces of the three countries. The exercise is scheduled to kick off on 17 February in Richards Bay (KwaZulu Natal). Until 24 February, a series of the usual naval activities associated with such port calls are planned in addition to the provisioning of the visiting ships and the conferences in preparation for the exercise. This will be followed by a two-day sea phase from 25 February. To the...

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