Category: Marines from all over the world

Great Britain FONOPS - HMS Richmond in the East China Sea

Great Britain FONOPS - HMS Richmond in the East China Sea

Gepostet von | 28 Sep 2021 | , , | 0

There, where usually grey ships with the "Star-Spangled Banner" in the top sail their FONOPS (Freedom of Navigation Operations) and regularly provoke biting accusations from Beijing - in the almost 70 nautical miles wide strait between the island of Taiwan and the Chinese mainland - a British frigate could be seen for the first time since 2008. HMS RICHMOND of the now thirty-year-old DUKE class (Type 23) passed through the area on Monday on her way out of the East China Sea for a planned visit to the Vietnamese navy, as she announced on Twitter. The 4,000-tonne frigate had been at the...

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Sky watcher over the island

Sky watcher over the island

Gepostet von | 20 Sep 2021 | , , , , | 0

General Atomics successfully integrates the MALE RPAS MQ-9B SkyGuardian into civil airspace On 12 September 2021, British aviation history was once again made in the skies above the United Kingdom. From the Royal Air Force (RAF) base at Waddington, the MALE RPAS MQ-9B SkyGuardian from General Atomics Aeronautical Systems took off on the first fully integrated, non-separated domestic flight from A to B along the airline structure in the UK. It was a safe flight, integrated with other air traffic and compliant with all NATS requirements. After a few hours of flight time, the remotely piloted SkyGuardian landed safely, on time and on point at RAF Lossiemouth Air Force Base. So...

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The former naval hospital in Flensburg-Mürwik

The former naval hospital in Flensburg-Mürwik

Gepostet von | 13 Sep 2021 | , , | 2

The former naval hospital in Flensburg-Mürwik is a "lost place" in more ways than one: after many years of vacancy, the complex resembles a ghost town, and on top of that, the last owner filed for insolvency in 2020. The ensemble, which is listed as a cultural monument, is now up for sale again. Hopefully with a happier outcome than before. Since the closure of the military hospital, which most recently belonged to Flensburg's municipal hospitals as "Klinik Ost", it has not exactly experienced rosy times. Vandalism and theft were the order of the day until the former clinic was sold to a Danish investor in 2007. However, his plans to build a hotel and a retirement home on the site...

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Argentine Navy - The HEROINA in Puerto Belgrano

Argentine Navy - The HEROINA in Puerto Belgrano

Gepostet von | 8 Sep 2021 | , | 0

In Puerto Belgrano, Argentina's largest naval base about 700 kilometres south of Buenos Aires, shortly before Bahia Blanca, a ship has been "heroically" moored at the pier for ten years, unable to move under its own power: the Heriona is missing a crucial gearbox spare part from England! The four FK destroyers of the Almirante-Brown class (Meko 360 H2) built by Blohm+Voss in the early 1980s are the largest units in Argentina and are equipped with four gas turbines for propulsion. Two are connected to each shaft, and if they are not running for slow speed, nothing works! After the part was handed over to an English company for repair in 2010,...

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