It is certainly not the first ship christening for the former First Mayor of Hamburg. Today, Olaf Scholz attended the christening of two submarines as Federal Chancellor. In front of 350 guests, Ho Ching, the wife of the Singaporean Prime Minister, christened the submarines "Impeccable" and "Illustrious". The pair are build number two...
Some do Christmas shopping - others lay the keels of two Virginia-class attack submarines in the space of 14 days! At the end of November, Ingalls Industries' Newport News Shipbuilding (NNS) in Hampton Roads, Virginia, performed the ceremonial keel authentication for the 27th Virginia-class attack submarine. SSN 800 will bear the name...
The world's largest, but still unfinished cruise ship "Global One" has been sold to Disney Cruise Line - a company of The Walt Disney Company - and will be completed in Wismar, where it is located in the shipbuilding hall. This was announced by the insolvency administrator of the MV Werften Group, Dr Christoph Morgen, partner in the...
Die japanische Reederei Mitsui O.S.K. Lines (MOL) berichtet über die erste erfolgreiche Testfahrt mit dem umweltfreundlichen Zusatzantrieb „Hard Sail“ auf seinem Bulk-Carrier „Shofu Maru“ mit 100.000 Tonnen Zuladungsgewicht (dwt). Das 235 Meter lange Schiff hat auf seiner Jungfernfahrt von Japan nach Australien zum Bunkern von Kohle und zurück zum Inselstaat...
Damen Naval, the Dutch prime contractor for the construction and delivery of the future frigates 126, has announced that the contract to equip the newbuildings with a medium-calibre gun has now been awarded to Rheinmetall. MLG27-4.0 The Unterlüss-based company will produce a modernised version of the well-known naval light gun, then named MLG27-4.0, the core of which is the BK-27M revolver gun.
The north German NVL Group (Naval Vessels Luerssen) issued a press release at the weekend announcing the modernisation of its shipyard infrastructure at the Wolgast site. An investment of around 15 million euros in a dock shelter, for which the foundation stone has just been laid, will enable shipbuilding to be carried out regardless of the weather in future and modern standards in environmental protection and...
BAE Systems nutzte die EuroNaval um erstmalig das Konzept einer "anpassungsfähigen" Fregatte vorzustellen. Ihre wesentlichen Merkmale sind Modularität und Integration autonomer Systeme, deren Einsatz in allen drei Dimensionen (über, unter und auf dem Wasser) vorgesehen ist. Damit soll die Fregatte Kampfkraft und Präsenz in das Operationsgebiet einbringen können. Außerdem soll...
On 27 October 2022, RAMSYS (RAM-System GmbH, Munich) was awarded a procurement contract for 600 state-of-the-art Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2B guided missiles (LFK) for the German Navy. The new LFKs will be delivered to the navy from 2024. Clever seeker head A newly developed infrared seeker head and the introduction of a data exchange system (missile-to-missile link) between several RAM...
After the keel was laid shortly before the end of last year at Kership in Concarneau/South Brittany (part of Naval Group) for the first construction of the twelve-unit Belgian-Dutch minehunter programme, the French Navy has now also joined the programme at Euronaval. Cost-reducing commonalities and interoperability of mine defence systems along the Western European coast...
Nachdem German Naval Yards auf der SMM-Meerestechnik-Leitmesse in Hamburg vor einem Monat bereits mit „Seaguard 96“, dem Entwurf für ein zukünftig umweltschonend einsetzbares Korvetten-Kampfschiff, aufgetrumpft hatte, konnte nun Group Naval auf heimischem Territorium in Le Bourget bei Paris auf der EuroNaval seine Vision für ein noch futuristischer erscheinendes Schiff vorstellen....
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