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At the shipbuilding facilities of OSEA, French shipbuilders have 10 hulls of boats for Ukrainian border guards. In France, a group of officers of the Maritime Guard of the State Border Guard Service oversees supporting the construction of boats and accepting its stages. It will be recalled that the first hull of the FPB 98 MKI boat for the Marine…
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The patrol ship Freyja docked in Siglufjörður November 6th after a five-day voyage from Rotterdam. Many people made their way to Hafnarbryggja in Siglufjörður to see the ship when it arrived at the harbor accompanied by the patrol ship Týs, the Coast Guard’s helicopter and the rescue ships of the Landsbjörg Accident Prevention Association. In addition, responders in the North…
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The Navy and Marine Corps may soon have a way to resupply warfighters on the front line using unmanned systems capable of delivering necessary supplies from a distance in a variety of scenarios. The Department is considering several cargo resupply systems and recently demonstrated these capabilities to senior leadership during an event Oct. 27 at NAWCAD’s Webster Outlying Field. The…
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The airborne command, control, and communications community came together for a contest during the last few months. The idea was to stimulate innovative thinking and allow anyone the opportunity to pitch their ideas on how to make the community better. The goal was to select two promising ideas that could move to prototype in fiscal year 2022. Over 15 weeks,…
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The Indo-Pacific Deployment 2021 (IPD21) units conducted a goodwill exercise with the Vietnam People’s Navy as described below. 1. Objectives (1) To improve JMSDF’s tactical capabilities (2) To strengthen the relationship with the Vietnam People’s Navy 2. Date November 7 3. Exercise Area Off Cam Ranh 4. Participating Units (1) JMSDF: JS KAGA, JS MURASAME (2) Vietnam People’s Navy: DINH…
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The crew of the small missile ship “Askold”, being built in Kerch at the shipyard named after B. E. Butoma, will undergo comprehensive training at the Joint Training Center of the Navy. Earlier, on September 21 in Kerch at the shipyard named after B. E. Butoma under the leadership of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Admiral Nikolai Evmenov held…
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The crew of the newest corvette of project 20385 “Agile”, under construction at the St. Petersburg shipbuilding enterprise “Northern Shipyard” (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) is undergoing the final training cycle at the Joint Training Center of the Russian Navy in St. Petersburg. The crew of the ship was formed in the Pacific Fleet and during the training cycle…
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