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Royal Navy: Nuclear submarines underway in the Mediterranean

Royal Navy: Nuclear submarines underway in the Mediterranean

Gepostet von | 13 Sep 2022 | , , , | 0

For six months - the entire period of Russia's ongoing war of aggression against Ukraine - HMS Audacious, the UK's newest operational Hunter-Killer nuclear submarine, has been on patrol in the Mediterranean. While the NATO surface units were monitoring shipping traffic as part of Operation Sea Guardian - and primarily keeping an eye on the Russian naval units that had gathered there at the start of the war and were still there - HMS Audacious was looking after the corresponding vehicles under water. After all, there were still a few conventional Kilo-class submarines left there when the Bosporus was closed. HMS Audacious, after HMS Astute, HMS Ambush...

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Historic meeting after 60 years

Historic meeting after 60 years

Gepostet von | 13 Sep 2022 | , , , , | 0

Tall ship meets aircraft carrier: US Navy compliments the Signora It was on 12 July 1962: the US aircraft carrier "USS Independence" encountered the "Amerigo Vespucci", which was sailing under full sail, in the Mediterranean and asked her to identify herself by light signal. The Italian three-masted ship, which was launched in February 1931, identified itself by name and described itself as a "high-ranking national ship on active service", whereupon the US Navy described it as "the most beautiful ship in the world". Now the repetition after 60 years: The aircraft carrier USS "George H.W. Bush" recently passed the "Amerigo Vespucci" in the Adriatic and repeated the compliment:...

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German Naval Yards presents Seaguard 96

German Naval Yards presents Seaguard 96

Gepostet von | 12 Sep 2022 | , , , , | 0

As already announced here ten days ago, the Kiel shipyard used the SMM 2022, which has just ended in Hamburg, to present a new corvette design. Here are a few more details that might interest you. The new Seaguard 96 is an "innovative high-end corvette capable of carrying out the entire spectrum of naval operations", according to the press release from German Naval Yards Kiel. With a length of 96 metres and a width of 13.5 metres, the ship is expected to have a displacement of around 2,000 tonnes. The design of the propulsion system (two propulsion diesels, four diesel generators and controllable pitch propellers) enables a maximum speed of...

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Rolls-Royce supplies mtu marine gensets for F126

Rolls-Royce supplies mtu marine gensets for F126

Gepostet von | 12 Sep 2022 | , , , , | 0

DAMEN Naval and Rolls-Royce's Power Systems division have signed a contract for the supply of 16 mtu diesel gensets for the German Navy's four new F126 frigates. This is DAMEN's first order for mtu diesel gensets for military applications. According to Hein van Ameijden, Managing Director of DAMEN Naval, Rolls-Royce was chosen because its mtu solutions are customised for naval applications. Efficiency, fuel savings and reduced maintenance The on-board power for each F126 frigate is provided by four Series 4000 variable-speed mtu gensets. These high-performance gensets are the most environmentally friendly marine gensets Rolls-Royce has ever produced: they fulfil the requirements of the IMO III...

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Didn't get away with it!

Didn't get away with it!

Gepostet von | 10 Sep 2022 | , , , | 0

"Toxic" aircraft carrier returns to Brazil Officials in Turkey have confirmed it: the decommissioned Brazilian Navy aircraft carrier NAE São Paulo, which was due to be scrapped in Aliaga, has changed course and is on its way back to Brazil. The tug of the aircraft carrier has changed its AIS signal and now indicates that it will arrive back in Rio de Janeiro on 2 October. The two-month round trip follows a similar pattern to the odyssey of its sister ship, the French aircraft carrier "Clemenceau", which was also turned away in 2006, then in India. As with her sister ship, the "São...

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