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March 11, 2020 (Google Translation) – The head corvette of project 20385 “Gremyashchiy”, which was undergoing state sea trials in the Northern Fleet, embarked on an inter-naval transition. Last night, escorted by the Pamir rescue tugboat, he sailed to the Barents Sea from the main base of the Northern Fleet and headed for the Baltic. Tests of the “Gremyashchiy” corvette…
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March 10, 2020 (Google Translation) – After 18 days of sailing, the 83 students from the School of the Marine Corps returned to the Port of Cartagena. On February 21, they set sail for the first time in history aboard the ARC “Gloria” School Ship. The future NCOs of the Colombian Navy Navy adorned the ports of Santa Marta and…
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March 11, 2020 (Google Translation) – Commander of the Navy Base Base (Danlatamal) IV First Admiral TNI Arsyad Abdullah, SE, MAP, attended the keel laying / ship building laying event at the shipyard PT. Palindo Shipyard Marine Tanjung Uncang Batam Kepri, Tuesday (10/3). The construction of these two Navy Ship (KAL28 M) types of ships, carried out by the nation’s…
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March 10, 2020 (Google Translation) – KRI Halasan and KRI Siwar were ordered by Danguskamla Koarmada I Laksma TNI Yayan Sofiyan, ST to carry out the MV chase. Hong Kong-flagged Fon Tai after receiving information about the presence of the ship from the Navy Maritime Air Patrol. MV Fon Tai with a weight of 32,983 tons since January 2020 has…
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March 9, 2020 – Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace AS (KONGSBERG) has signed a contract with Raytheon Missile Systems for Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) to the US Navy Over-The-Horizon Weapon System (OTH WS) program worth 203 MNOK. Raytheon is prime contractor to the US Navy. The order is related to the OTH WS framework agreement announced 31 May 2018 with a…
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March 11, 2020 – Crews operating Patrol Squadron (VP) 4’s P-8A Poseidon aircraft participated in Exercise Dynamic Manta 2020 (DYMA20), a NATO led maritime exercise Feb. 24 – March 6, 2020. Dynamic Manta, an annual exercise hosted by NATO’s Allied Maritime Command (MARCOM) took place in the Mediterranean Sea off the southern coast of Italy. The overarching purpose of the…
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October 10, 2020 – On 10 March in Jakarta, Len Industri and Thales signed a contract for the complete modernisation of the KRI Usman-Harun multi-role light frigate’s mission system, witnessed by King Willem Alexander of the Netherlands and Minister of Trade Agus Suparmanto. Thales has been a leading partner of the Indonesian Navy for the last forty years, as the…
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