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https://seawaves.com/navantia-delivers-fifth-saudi-corvette-in-jeddah/

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A Corveta Hetman Ivan Mazepa (F-211), construída no Estaleiro Marítimo RMK como contratante principal para @UA_NAVY @STMDefence fez hoje seu primeiro teste de navegação.

  https://twitter.com/en_balci/status/1795764493445730748

[MMaria]

Olás.

Mais um daqueles vídeos "Top 10": fragatas actuais.

Sds!

[Cabeça de Martelo]

https://twitter.com/navalgroup/status/1811040444245025182

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CIWS-II simple analysis and new feature.
Korean DAPA officially confirmed that the CIWS-II will be going to have 'AHEAD' ammunition use capability to counter drones.
The 'SPREAD' ammunition is another term for Korea that refers to 'AHEAD'.
But for now, the Korean 'SPREAD' ammunition is for SPAAG.
It could be a way to develop a CIWS-II and add that feature.
CIWS-II is a highly advanced system that assumes East Asia, where the hotbed of missile power. This is because Korea concluded that even if a 40mm cannon and its 'AHEAD' and '3P' ammunition responds well to cruise missiles, such ammunition is not easy to cope with the latest, hardened(inactive) warheads with high-speed when Anti-ship missiles entered in terminal phase. (So does laser CIWS).
Even though all supersonic Anti-ship missiles loss it's speed significantly when they entered the terminal phase, 'AHEAD' is less effective than 'MPDS' and 'FMPDS'.
According to continued announcement and research data, what I have seen, CIWS-II will act like a sniper.
The radar and tracking algorithm also applied the highest standards.
The development seems to be very smooth, just as I expected.
The Goalkeeper and Palanx were excellent, but because of the price(Phalanx), maintenance limitations(Goalkeeper), and performance problems(20mm), Korea started the CIWS-II program.
I'm sure the AHEAD from CIWS-II will shred the drones with ease.

[Lusitano89]

Peru Dobra Sua Força: Novos Navios de Guerra a Caminho

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Royal Thai Navy launched two ESSMs in a live fire exercise today from guided missile frigates **HTMS *Bhumibol Adulyadej** *(FFG-471)*** ***and **HTMS *Taksin** *(FFG-422)

both target drones were shot down

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Lockheed Martin has contracted three Spanish companies—Indra, Escribano Mechanical and Engineering, and ICM (Integral de Conexión y Montajes, S.L.)—to supply components for the AN/SPY-7(V)2 radar system, which will be integrated into the Spanish Navy's F-110 frigate fleet. The F-110 frigates, equipped with the Scomba combat system, are set to be commissioned starting in 2028, with Lockheed's radar technology playing a crucial role in their operational effectiveness.

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🇪🇺 invocations that a clean sheet design of a 1st line surface combatant should incorporate in 2024:

- 🇮🇹Naval Cockpit
- 🇩🇪two islands concept implemented with two spaced out
- 🇫🇷Panoramic Sensor & Intelligence Modules
- 🇩🇰CUBE modular host & deploy system

[MMaria]

Parece que os primos charruas estão tendo problemas com seu programa de OPVs a quem deram o contracto a uma tale de Cardama, um obscuro estaleiro de Espanha. Agora os franceses estão a apresentar uma proposta.

La francesa Kership se sube ahora al carro y ofrece nuevamente sus OPV a la Armada de Uruguay casi al mismo precio que Cardama

https://www.defensa.com/uruguay/francesa-kership-sube-ahora-carro-ofrece-nuevamente-opv-armada

Sds

[Cabeça de Martelo]

Mas segundo se vê no artigo, são os uruguaios que não conseguem o dinheiro necessário para avançar com o programa.

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M23 C-series submarine. Photo of model at MSPO by Łukasz Pacholski.
First Clear Images of the Italian Submarines being built for Qatar
A new class of submarine, under construction for the Qatari Emiri Navy, has broken the surface. The submarine is under testing in La Spezia on the Italian coast.
H I Sutton  11 Sep 2024

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2024/09/first-clear-images-of-the-italian-submarines-being-built-for-qatar/

[Get_It]

PESCO: Anti-Torpedo Torpedo (ATT).

European navies chase the white whale of torpedo-busting torpedoes
(24 de Setembro de 2024)

The technology promises to be a game changer: a torpedo-seeking torpedo fired by surface vessels for head-on intercepts, missile-defense style.

Yet after more than a decade of research, lead nations Germany and the Netherlands are still years away from fitting their navies with a hard-kill torpedo countermeasure.

Germany's navy has been toying with a product called SeaSpider, developed by Atlas Elektronik, for several years. Work on the sole technology option under consideration in Europe goes back even further, with engineers studying it for at least 15 years, according to the firm's website.

But while Atlas has tried to market the system as ready for combat, no navy has yet taken the bait, and the Dutch Ministry of Defence has repeatedly pushed back the start of a formal purchasing program based on SeaSpider.

The German sea service did tests some years ago, but decided against adopting the system. And the Canadian navy, deemed a prospective SeaSpider launch customer due to the timing of its large-scale surface combatant program, made no mention of the capability in its initial lineup of technologies for the future fleet.

A spokesman for Atlas' parent company, Thyssen Krupp Marine Systems, declined to discuss SeaSpider, pointing to previous requests by the German navy to keep details under wraps. A spokeswoman for the German Ministry of Defense said the technology's classification and contractual status prohibit the disclosure of details.

Still, officials in Berlin believe that a capability to intercept torpedoes with torpedoes is a critical force-protection technology in principle, the spokeswoman told Defense News.

Torpedoes have historically been one of the main threats to surface vessels, with the weapon involved in more than half of sinkings of U.S. Navy ships during World War II, according to U.S. Coast Guard data cited by Dutch researchers at TNO, a government-linked research organization.

Defense against torpedoes remains essentially a losing proposition, according to experts, leaving surface ships relatively vulnerable once such a weapon is headed their way. The main defensive measures consist of maneuvering, or launching decoys to confuse incoming torpedoes. Yet the latter is ineffective against so-called wake-homing variants, which align their travel path to hit ships in a straight line from behind, their sonar signature buried in the acoustic noise of a ship's own propulsion system.

The U.S. Navy experimented with an anti-torpedo interceptor installed on three of its aircraft carriers in 2017, before uninstalling the system in 2018, saying that while the hard-kill measure showed "some capability to defeat an incoming torpedo," reliability was uncertain and lethality of the system was untested.

SeaSpider can intercept all types of torpedoes, combining data from sensors installed on the carrier ship and the interceptor torpedo to compute collision paths with the inbound weapon, the manufacturer promises on its website.

The package has been in play again since last year for further development under the auspices of a European Union program, led by Germany and the Netherlands, labeled simply "Anti-torpedo Torpedo," or ATT.

A one-sentence description for the project on an EU website describes a desire for "bringing a developed anti-torpedo torpedo demonstrator to the production-ready design, with a qualified effector and a proven functional chain," an apparent reference to the Atlas product that only the Dutch Ministry of Defence would confirm to Defense News.

A spokesperson there said the SeaSpider technology is still too immature to warrant setting up a formal program, though Dutch defense officials have planned to take such a step, which requires parliamentary notification, since 2022. If it all comes to pass, perhaps in 2025, budget analysts have slotted a torpedo-killing torpedo capability into a category of programs consuming anywhere between €250 million and €1 billion, according to the Dutch MOD.

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Fonte: https://www.defensenews.com/global/europe/2024/09/24/european-navies-chase-the-white-whale-of-torpedo-busting-torpedoes/

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