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China's rise as a maritime world power

China's rise as a maritime world power

Gepostet von | 30 Jun 2025 | , , | 0

Largely unnoticed by the European media, the Chinese navy has experienced breathtaking growth in recent years, which is turning the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific region upside down and could seriously jeopardise American supremacy on the world's oceans. In purely numerical terms, the Chinese navy (People's Liberation Army - Navy, or "PLAN" for short) was already a sizeable fleet of countless (missile) speedboats, small landing craft and diesel-electric submarines for coastal operations during the Cold War. In recent years, however, the composition of the PLAN has changed noticeably and the Brown Water Navy has seen a massive influx of large units....

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LCS of the US Navy as "migrant hunters" - find lots of coke

LCS of the US Navy as "migrant hunters" - find lots of coke

Gepostet von | 30 Jun 2025 | , , | 0

The US Navy finally seems to have found an operational niche for the unloved LCS (Littoral Combat Ships) of the Freedom and Independence class: The hunt for drug smugglers in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific. Although expensive and difficult to maintain, the LCSs have the advantage of high manoeuvrability and high speeds of 40 to 50 knots thanks to their water jet propulsion. Banished to the Caribbean by presidential order - not to mention the unnamed Gulf of Mexico - and deployed there to support the Coast Guard in securing the national borders against migration, the "Minneapolis-Saint Paul" has been used as a...

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USA - Airlaunch of a hypersonic weapon

USA - Airlaunch of a hypersonic weapon

Gepostet von | 27 Jun 2025 | , , | 0

At the NAWCWD (Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Naval Air Weapon Station China Lake, California), the BQM-34 Firebee jet-powered subsonic target presentation drone was successfully used for the first time at the beginning of May as a carrier and simultaneously as a fire control launch platform for the air launch of a solid-fuel ramjet (hypersonic) missile as a demonstrator. Both the Firebee, a development from the 1950s, and the solid fuel used for propulsion in the SFIRR (solid fuel integral rocket ram jet) are not new. However, when paired with the latest technologies, various application possibilities are now opening up. The solid fuel, which is much easier to handle than liquid propellants, is also lighter and significantly favours the parameters of the weapon - at higher speeds, with a higher...

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Quantum sensor technology in the maritime environment

Quantum sensor technology in the maritime environment

Gepostet von | 26 Jun 2025 | , , | 0

Quantentechnologie wird, neben der künstlichen Intelligenz, als eines der großen technologischen Zukunftsfelder gesehen. Einen bedeutenden Bereich davon bildet die Quantensensorik. Welche Prinzipien und Technologien verbergen sich hinter dem Begriff, und was leistet Quantensensorik bereits heute in maritimen Anwendungen? Grundsätzlich dient der Begriff Quantensensorik der Abgrenzung gegenüber klassischen Sensoren und beschreibt jeden Sensor, der quantenphysikalische Prinzipien nutzt. Ein bereits weit fortgeschrittener Bereich der Quantensensorik ist dabei die Magnetometrie, die Messung von Magnetfeldern. Hier dominieren zwei Technologien: Supraleitende Quanteninterferenzgeräte (Squids) und optisch gepumpte Magnetometer (OPMs) mit jeweils individuellen Charakteristiken, die es für eine mögliche Anwendung zu beachten gilt.[ds_preview] Das Squid basiert...

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USS "Jeremiah Denton" christened

USS "Jeremiah Denton" christened

Gepostet von | 26 Jun 2025 | , , | 0

At the end of March, the third destroyer of the third construction batch of the Arleigh Burke class (Flight III) was christened "Jeremiah Denton" (DDG 129) at Huntington Ingalls (Newport News Shipbuilding) - in memory of a Navy Cross-winning veteran of the Vietnam War, who later also sat in the House of Representatives as a senator from the US state of Alabama. The Flight III variant of this destroyer class (155 metres long, weighing 9,300 tonnes) is equipped with state-of-the-art sensors, battle management systems and the latest energy and cooling technology - an important prerequisite for future equipment with laser weapons. As with the predecessor models, the propulsion is provided by four gas turbines and allows speeds of up to...

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