Während die russische Nordflotte zur Übung eines mit Fliegerkräften koordinierten U-Boots-Angriffs in der Barentssee nördlich von Norwegen und der russischen Halbinsel Kola einen Luftraum von der Größe Halb-Deutschlands sperren lässt, läuft im Süden des Landes der amerikanische Super-Flugzeugträger "USS Gerald R. Ford" in den Oslo-Fjord ein. Russland Die Warnungen vor...
Update from 5 February 2023 And it happened just as you could have counted on five fingers: On 4 February 2023, the Brazilian navy found a ship about 190 nautical miles (350 kilometres) off the coast - just inside the Brazilian economic zone - in water depths of 5,000 metres, free of underwater cables and...
Motorbuch-Verlag presents its new book, hot off the press: Marinetechnik des zweiten Weltkriegs Entwicklung - Einsatz - Konsequenzen Hans Karr, long-time expert on naval ships, author of countless specialist articles and freelance contributor to the Marineforum, is publishing his latest work after a long break. Before and during the Second World War, naval technology underwent perhaps its most fundamental...
Boeing had strengthened the landing gear and made other modifications 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 - it...
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. Something like this happens during shipyard layovers and it wouldn't really be worth reporting...
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Stand 21. Dezember 2022 In der Nacht zum 18. Dezember ist etwa 20 Meilen vor der thailändischen Küste die 35 Jahre alte 1.000 Tonnen-Korvette „Sukhothai“ zunächst durch Wassereinbruch in die Spannungsversorgung mit anschließenden Totalausfall der Bordanlagen in erhebliche Seitenlage gekommen und später gesunken. Sie befand sich im Seegebiet, um in...
First of all, the American "amphibious assault ships", initially of the "Wasp" class (LHD 1-8, in service from 1989 to 2009), then subsequently of the "America" class (LHA 6-8, in service from 2014 to 2024), are 260 metre long and 40,000+ tonne flight deck carriers designed to support landing operations of the US Marines. Although they differ in the silhouettes...
Am Dienstag, den 15. November 2022 um 10 Uhr, kehrte die Fregatte "Hessen" aus dem Atlantik von der Carrier Strike Group 2022 (CSG) nach Wilhelmshaven zurück. Die Fregatte "Hessen" verließ Anfang September Wilhelmshaven, um sich der amerikanischen Flugzeugträgerkampfgruppe anzuschließen. Dort trainierte die Fregatte der Klasse F124 zusammen mit mehreren Begleitschiffen...
A team from Bild-TV was on board the aircraft carrier "George H. W. Bush" - the video report is a bit striking, but also worth seeing! Not just for Bild readers! To the video
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