Category: Technology

Digital classroom for the Sea Lion

The digital Asterion classroom is used to train maintenance personnel for the new Naval Transport Helicopter (NTH) NH90 NTH Sea Lion. The system includes a soft panel cockpit with touchscreen instrument displays, a mission console trainer required for naval helicopter training, Asterion software, desktop hardware and tablets.

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Rolls-Royce supplies mtu gas engines for world's first LNG tug with hybrid system

This is the world's first LNG hybrid tug powered by mtu gas engines. The LNG hybrid tug was designed by LMG Marin (Norway), part of the Sembcorp Marine Group, for the delivery of 65 tonnes of ABS-class bollard pull and is expected to be completed later in 2021. The tug's main propulsion system consists of two 16-cylinder mtu Series 4000 gas engines, which together will deliver a total power output of 2,984 kilowatts at 1,600 revolutions per minute (rpm).

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Christmas and New Year on the hunt for plastic

Research vessel SONNE investigated the path of plastic waste in the ocean The research vessel SONNE spent a month travelling the Atlantic on the trail of plastic waste. Now the ship from the Geomar Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research has arrived back in Emden. It is well known that millions of tonnes of plastic waste end up in the ocean and its marginal seas every year. Where the rubbish ends up, however, is not. An expedition by the German research vessel SONNE has helped to find out more about the path and effects of plastic in the sea. The team on board reported on their work in the blog of the JPI Oceans research project HOTMIC - and on unusual holidays on the...

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On the way to operational readiness

After the Breguet Atlantic was discontinued, the German Navy opted for second-hand P-3Cs from the Dutch. France, on the other hand, decided to develop its own successor, the Atlantic 2. Also known as the Atlantic Nouvelle Generation (ANG), these maritime patrol aircraft differed from their predecessors only in the details. However, after 20 years in service, the technical equipment was no longer up to date and the decision was made to upgrade in 1993. Just under two years ago, the first of the converted aircraft rejoined the fleet. On the way to their planned retirement at the end of 2021...

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