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U.S. Navy: New Navy Commander in Office - Admiral Daryl Caudle

U.S. Navy: New Navy Commander in Office - Admiral Daryl Caudle

Gepostet von | 23 Sep 2025 | , , | 0

In mid-June, the President of the USA designated the Commander of the U.S. Fleet Forces, Admiral Daryl Caudle, as the next Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and proposed him for selection by the Senate Armed Services Committee, the American defence committee in the Capitol. Caudle is to replace Admiral James Kilby, who was appointed on an interim basis, six months after Admiral Lisa Franchetti, the first woman to occupy the post, was kicked out. Caudle has a broad academic background in chemistry, computer science and organisational science and has risen through the ranks in the submarines from watch officer to fleet commander. He is more likely to advocate a reorganisation of the U.S. shipyard organisation than a...

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Cable clutter

Cable clutter

Gepostet von | 22 Sep 2025 | , , | 0

Friesland Kabel hat dazu das maritime Know-How Was – so mag sich der geneigte Leser fragen – ist denn an Kabeln so spannend? Eine Banalität, sollte man meinen, denn wir haben ja täglich mehrere Übertragungsprodukte für Signale und Energie in den Händen. Was man braucht, holt man sich im Baumarkt. Oder? Man ahnt es, für technisch anspruchsvolle Anlagen braucht es für jeden Zweck eine verlässliche Lösung. Nicht nur Elektrotechniker werden verstehen, dass „one-fits-all“ nicht den Ansprüchen der Werftindustrie im Spezialschiffbau oder den Offshore Forderungen entspricht. [ds_preview]Und flexibel sowie Just-in-time muss es sein, kein Hersteller leistet sich ein umfassendes Kabellager....

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Philippines receive support from Japan and the USA

Philippines receive support from Japan and the USA

Gepostet von | 19 Sep 2025 | , , | 0

In view of the Chinese navy's unabated bullying behaviour towards the Philippine units in the South China Sea, Japan has agreed to make its six Abukuma frigates (109 metres, 2,500 tonnes) available to the island state when they are decommissioned. Although these ships have over thirty years of service under their keels, they would be a class of ship that the Philippine Navy has not had at its disposal for a long time, but which should give it a completely different weight in the region - because these ships would come to Manila with their armament such as Harpoon, ASROC and torpedoes. As an encore, some TC-90 (Beechcraft...

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Norway - Financial closure of the frigate drama

Norway - Financial closure of the frigate drama

Gepostet von | 18 Sep 2025 | , , | 0

After almost seven years of legal wrangling, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence and the Spanish shipyard Navantia reached an out-of-court settlement in the case of the frigate "Helge Ingstad", which sank in 2018, at the beginning of June. The settlement provides for Navantia to grant discounts of almost 50 million euros on maintenance and modernisation work on the remaining Fridtjof Nansen-class frigates over the next six years. Originally, Norway had demanded compensation totalling just over one billion euros. This was based on alleged design defects, in particular the hollow propeller shafts, which had allowed water to penetrate through the compartments. Navantia rejected this and conducted the investigation into the...

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Colombia - Launch of the Fassmer OPV

Colombia - Launch of the Fassmer OPV

Gepostet von | 18 Sep 2025 | , , | 0

As a strategic hub between Central and South America, between the Caribbean and the Pacific, as well as the most important drug trafficking routes from South to North, Colombia has a small but very agile navy. The country receives a great deal of material support from the USA (guard boats) and South Korea (2 corvettes), as well as operational support from the USA. Germany was actively involved when four frigates were built at HDW in Kiel in the mid-1980s and German naval stocks were reduced after reunification in the 1990s. Today, all of this is "old" material. That is why Colombia is now trying its own hand, albeit based on design and technology from...

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