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Japan tests railgun demonstrator

Japan tests railgun demonstrator

Gepostet von | 23 Jul 2025 | , , | 0

The electric cannon - Japan's railgun project picks up speed The subject of the "electric cannon" (railgun) is far from over: The Japanese Self-Defence Forces (JSDF) recently installed a demonstrator on board the test carrier "Asuka" - a 151-metre-long ship with a displacement of 6,300 tonnes that is strongly reminiscent of former US destroyers. Between 2016 and 2022, a research facility of the Japanese Ministry of Defence developed an electromagnetic acceleration system that can accelerate projectiles to over 2,000 metres per second. The goal: greater ranges and a significantly higher kinetic effect on the target - far beyond what is possible with conventional powder ammunition. An important development goal was...

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China's rise to maritime power

China's rise to maritime power

Gepostet von | 22 Jul 2025 | , , | 0

China is continuously expanding its influence on other countries. Its adversaries are the USA - and Europe. China's global, economic and military rise as a geopolitical and geostrategic counter-power to the USA continues unabated. China, a global power with 1.4 billion people, is in the process of further changing the global power constellation beyond the Western Pacific and Southeast Asia. China's head of state and commander-in-chief of the armed forces, Xi Jinping, is single-mindedly pushing "China's dream of returning to its former strength". China is now the world's largest trading power, owns the world's largest container fleet and has been the world's second-largest economy since 2012. According to all forecasts, China will[ds_preview]...

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Manoeuvre with interaction

Manoeuvre with interaction

Gepostet von | 21 Jul 2025 | , , | 0

During the large-scale exercise Baltops, experts from the Naval Shipping Administration inform merchant ship captains about the background and exercise areas. In this interview, First Lieutenant Markus S. gives an insight into his work. What are the tasks of the naval ship's command during the major manoeuvre Baltic Operations? Our personnel in Germany fulfil the tasks of Naval Cooperation and Guidance for Shipping (NCAGS), which is the NATO designation. We have contributed our expertise in advising civilian ships that[ds_preview] pass through or in the immediate vicinity of the Baltops exercise area. A special team was formed in Kiel for this purpose, a Deployed NCAGS Element, or DNE for short. Around a dozen marines are part of this team....

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Type 26 of the Royal Navy - christened with whisky

Type 26 of the Royal Navy - christened with whisky

Gepostet von | 17 Jul 2025 | , , | 0

Eight months after the first steel cut, the ship was completed at BAE Systems' Scotstoun shipyard and decked out for the christening by Princess Kate: "Glasgow", the type ship of the 6,900 tonne Type 26 class of the Royal Navy. It was not christened with champagne, but traditionally with a bottle of Scotch whisky. It is, after all, the twelfth of His Majesty's ships to bear the city's name over the centuries. The usual flyby by a P-8A Poseidon was performed by the Royal Air Force, which is in charge of the new UJagd and maritime reconnaissance aircraft, which in future will carry out this task between Greenland and the island kingdom together with the "Glasgow"...

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China - large underwater drone recognised

China - large underwater drone recognised

Gepostet von | 16 Jul 2025 | , , | 0

Apparently, the Chinese navy now also has super-large, autonomously operating small submarines of the XLUUV (Extra-Large Unmanned Underwater Vehicle) type - in five different prototypes. Recent images show the road transport of one of these models for the first time: concealed under a tarpaulin is an object around twelve metres long that initially looks like the cabin of an aircraft. On closer inspection, however, it is a previously unknown XLUUV. The unusually large vertical rudder with a height of over 2.5 metres is particularly striking - if this were not present, the object would fit into a standard 40-foot container. Due to its dimensions, the...

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