Over the festive period, however, our small editorial team also treats itself to a contemplative break to calm down and recharge its batteries for the coming year.
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When a Canadian Lockheed CP-140 Aurora, a version of the P-3 Orion maritime patrol aircraft, was on an eight-hour UN mission in international airspace over the East China Sea, a Chinese Chengdu J-10 closed to within five metres of its wings, while a Shenyang J-16 kept to the sidelines. The Aurora was flying in an area close to Chinese airspace to monitor ship movements while enforcing the oil embargo against North Korea. These flights are regularly "welcomed" by Chinese air force units - even several times during a mission - but rarely so aggressively. Because on the last approach, even...
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After strengthening maritime cooperation with Vietnam in May 2023, the Philippines has now also begun talks with Japan on a reciprocal agreement that would allow the deployment of armed forces on each other's soil in light of growing tensions in the region. Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. said on the sidelines of a summit between Japan and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) in Tokyo that tensions in the South China Sea had increased rather than decreased in recent months and warned that a "more assertive China" posed a "real challenge" to its Asian neighbours. Manila and Beijing delivered...
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Mit mehrjähriger Verspätung wurde das erste Schiff der neuesten Klasse der US Küstenwache getauft. Am 27. Oktober erfolgten Taufe und Stapellauf der ersten Einheit der HERITAGE-Klasse der US Coast Guard (USCG) auf der Eastern Shipbuilding Werft in Panama City, Florida. Der Name der neuen Klasse reflektiert die Tatsache, dass sämtliche Einheiten nach historischen Schiffen der Küstenwache benannt werden. Die USCGC ARGUS beispielsweise trägt den Namen eines der ersten zehn Zollschiffe der USA. [ds_preview]Diese erste ARGUS diente von 1791 bis 1804. Die 14,5 Meter lange, 48 Tonnen verdrängende Slup hatte eine zehnköpfige Besatzung, deren Bewaffnung aus Musketen, Pistolen, und Äxten...
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The trend towards equipping navies with high-performance standard support vessels from the civilian sector is continuing around the globe. After Chile decommissioned its deep-sea tug Lautaro at the beginning of 2022, an adequate replacement had to be found quickly to maintain national connections along the 4000 kilometres of coastline and on to the Antarctic regions and stations of Chile. They found what they were looking for in the Netherlands and purchased the offshore supply vessel/tug Havila Neptune, built in 2007 in Leirvik near Bergen in Norway, which can carry a further 2500 tonnes with a displacement of around 3000 tonnes. After a technical refit and colour change from...
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