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The most daring project of the US Navy at the present time is the construction of the Zumwalt-class destroyers. This project uses the newest and most daring technologies, which leads to particular complexity and numerous difficulties. Recently it became known that the lead destroyer again collides with

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Existing patent laws in various countries do not require a workable example of an invention to be attached to an application. This, in particular, makes life easier for various "projectors" offering deliberately unrealizable ideas. As a consequence, patent offices have to deal with a large

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The last ship of the "667 family" and the last Soviet submarine missile carrier of the 2nd generation (in fact, smoothly passed into the third generation) was the strategic missile submarine cruiser (SSBN) of project 667-BRDM (code "Dolphin"). Like its predecessors, it was created at the Central Design Bureau for Marine

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More recently, such a class of ship as a minelayer, or minelayer, was quite common. Moreover, “recently” is recently in the most literal sense: the same Denmark had such ships in service back in the late nineties. Today, less than twenty years later, such ships are almost

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When in 2011 Russia demonstrated prototypes of the Club-K container missile systems, they were positioned as a means to quickly build up the striking power of the armed forces, placing these complexes on various types of mobile carriers - on landing boats, cars

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As is widely known, at the beginning of World War II, Germany tried to disorganize the sea communications of the Allies with the help of surface ships. As warships of special construction, from "pocket battleships" to "Bismarck" and "Tirpitz", and converted merchant ships, combat stability

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Submarines of the "Bars" or "Morzh" type for the Baltic Sea were built in 1912 under the shipbuilding program "Rapid Reinforcement of the Baltic Fleet" in the amount of 18 units. According to this program, six submarines were intended for the Siberian Flotilla

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1. The Second World War showed that surface ships without air cover do not survive in an area where enemy strike aircraft are actively operating. 2. She also showed that large surface ships are easily destroyed by combat aircraft, which, for example, entailed the disappearance of large

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Photo: weapons.technology.youngester.com Nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle (R91), France The maritime powers of Europe, which have or once had classic strike aircraft carriers in their fleets, are gradually abandoning this type of ships in favor of smaller, but multifunctional

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Aircraft carriers are not only the pinnacle of shipbuilding, but also aircraft construction. Therefore, their comparative analysis is also important for assessing the technological level of states. There are few aircraft carriers in the world, and most of them are in the US Navy. Nevertheless, these ships are in the fleets of countries in all the most important regions of the world:

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I would like to bring to your attention a photo review of the new seaports built in Russia after 1992, as well as those currently under construction. 1. Marine facade - passenger port on Vasilievsky Island (St. Petersburg). Built on an alluvial area next to the highway of the WHSD road under construction

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From 1990 to August 1992, the destroyer "Timișoara" underwent modernization: in order to increase the stability of the cruiser, a number of superstructures were cut, the chimney and mast were shortened, and the heavy launchers for the P-21 "Termit" missiles were moved one deck below. For this, under the nasal complexes it was necessary

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Dear Readers! This series of publications can be considered a continuation of a series of articles devoted to the fate of the Romanian Marasti-class destroyers, as it contains information about the successors of the traditions of the Romanian naval forces. Either fortunately, or unfortunately, a lot of material has accumulated

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This is a sequel to an article on 21st century Romanian frigates. The first part is HERE. Power plants of frigates of type 22 To obtain an optimal coefficient of efficiency and more rational use of fuel on frigates of type 22 were installed ship combined gas turbine

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This is a sequel to an article on 21st century Romanian frigates. The first part is HERE. And hello again! Since I have gone deep into history, I will remind you of something briefly. Great Britain reduced the size of its fleet. Frigates of the first series of Type 22 also fell under reduction. Two of them were

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This is a continuation of the article on Romanian frigates. The first part is HERE. Kings and Queens As you already know from the previous parts, the beauty and pride of the entire Romanian people, the frigate Marasesti (F 111) for almost 20 years was the only and largest warship in history

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On Wednesday, November 23, it became known that the US Navy's super destroyer Zumwalt had been stuck in Panama for about ten days, until specialists repair the ship's power plant, which had failed for the second time in two months. Due to the nature of the project, while the repair

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Against the background of increasing competition in the underwater sphere, anti-torpedo torpedoes are another option for neutralizing the threat of submarines. The article deals with the SeaSpider anti-torpedo system ("Sea Spider") by Atlas Elektronik. Launching the SeaSpider anti-torpedo torpedo in the Gulf of Eckernfjord

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The naval version of the Hermes 900 UAV can be equipped with a multisensor kit, which includes such systems as, for example, the multi-mode surveillance radar Gabianno T-200 by Leonardo

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The US Navy's Maritime Research Administration is currently finalizing a prototype of the low-cost, long-run Sea Hunter mid-range craft that can be configured for a variety of payloads

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Leading the Vigilant IUSV series, the unmanned Vigilant IUSV maneuvers at high speed in Singapore waters The Vigilant class IUSV autonomous boat has been on multi-day cruises since launching eight years ago. By now, the main design work has been completed, and

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Greetings from the 90sOn April 4 of this year, an important event happened: the Americans put into operation a new multipurpose submarine of the fourth type Virginia - USS Delaware. An important event, important primarily for the opponents of the United States, since for the Americans themselves it is almost an ordinary one: the submarine has already become

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General state of the problem Development and modernization of the Russian naval forces in recent years have been given great attention by the country's leadership. At the same time, and this must be said frankly, the construction of new warships is carried out using outdated technologies

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Heavy nuclear missile cruiser of project 1144 (code "Orlan") "Peter the Great" (former "Kuibyshev") On February 20, Flot.com, citing informed sources, said: “The long-planned modernization of the heavy missile cruiser" Peter the Great "of project 11442

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With great interest I got acquainted with the discussion about the promising Russian destroyer in the topic: "Alvaro de Basan" as a collective image of the future Russian destroyer and realized that there was no comment to the respected author of the article and equally respected participants in the discussion within the narrow framework of

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At the end of this article, I would like to express my opinion on a number of issues raised in the discussion of carrier-based air groups earlier. At most 36 planes and 10 helicopters fit into the hangar of an aircraft carrier, where to shove all the rest? We look at the diagram below And in the photo We count the cars and understand that on the flight deck

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Now is the time to return to comparing the tasks and capabilities of a promising EM for the Russian Navy and Arleigh Burke. The Americans created an air defense / anti-aircraft defense ship with the ability to perform the functions of an "arsenal ship". Conventional destroyer ammunition (74 SM2 missiles, 24 Sea Sparrow, 8 Tomahawk and 8 ASROK)

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The first dreadnoughts of the Russian Imperial Navy, the Baltic "Sevastopoli", were awarded the most contradictory characteristics in the Russian-language press. But if in some publications the authors called them almost the best in the world, today it is widely believed that battleships of the type

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For a long time, the leading role of aircraft carriers in the history of World War II in the Pacific Ocean seemed self-evident and was not seriously disputed by anyone. However, for some time now, in the disputes that have already become traditional for "VO" "who is stronger, a whale or an elephant … that is, an aircraft carrier or a submarine?"

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Ships of projects 26 and 26 bis. The first cruisers of the Soviet fleet, laid down in the USSR. Graceful handsome men, in whose silhouettes the rapid outlines of the Italian school are easily guessed … It seemed that we should know almost everything about these ships: they were built in our country, all archival

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In this article, we will try to understand the degree of participation of Italian specialists in the creation of cruisers of the 26 and 26-bis project, as well as the position of Soviet cruisers in the international classification of the 30s of the last century. To begin with, let's refresh our memory on the "milestones" in the design of cruisers

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Several years ago, the shipbuilding program included in the GPV 2011-2020 was discussed with great interest, and especially its revised version (2012), according to which, by 2020, the fleet should include: 1) 10 strategic missile submarine cruisers ( SSBN) project

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So, the rate of fire of the MK-3-180. This issue has been covered many times in almost all sources - but in such a way that it is absolutely impossible to understand anything. From the publication to the publication, the phrase is quoted: “The final ship tests of the MK-3-180 took place in the period from July 4th to August 23rd, 1938

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Frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" What is still wrong with the domestic program of surface shipbuilding, adopted in the GPV 2011-2020? Immediately, we note that its developers had a very nontrivial task. The resumption of the massive construction of surface ships after twenty years

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Surprisingly, the fact is that the naval battle that took place in the Yellow Sea on July 28, 1904, to this day remains relatively little known to a wide range of readers. This is rather strange, because in the Russo-Japanese War there were only four large-scale clashes of armored squadrons: Battle 27

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Cruiser "Voroshilov" Before proceeding to a description of the armor, power plant and some structural features of Soviet cruisers, let us devote a few words to the torpedo, aircraft and radar armament of ships 26 and 26 bis. All cruisers (except for the Molotov)

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In this article we will look at the construction of domestic "mosquito" forces and summarize the cycle. Despite the fact that in the USSR they paid great attention to the development of a small fleet, in the GPV program 2011-2020. included a minimum of strike ships with a displacement of less than a thousand tons. Planned to build 6 small

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Destroyers of project 23560 "Leader". For the first time, the general public heard about it in June 2009, when ITAR-TASS announced the start of work on the creation of a multipurpose destroyer in the ocean zone. At the same time, the tasks that the Navy command set for the promising ship were announced: “Its main

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So, at the end of July 1904, the need for the Port Arthur squadron to break through became completely obvious. The point was not that on July 25, the Sevastopol returned to service, which was blown up by a mine during an unsuccessful exit on June 10, and not even that the governor's telegram was received on July 26

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Squadron battleship "Petropavlovsk" in Port Arthur Having reviewed the brief biographies of the commanders in the previous article, we move on to the state of the 1st Pacific Squadron by the time Rear Admiral V.K.Witgeft took over the post temporarily and. d. commander of the Pacific Ocean squadron. Need to say