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Saab to equip Bulgarian Navy’s new Multipurpose Modular Patrol Vessels
Luerssen image Saab To Equip Bulgarian Navy’s New Multipurpose Modular Patrol Vessels Saab has signed a contract with the German shipbuilding company Lürssen and received an order to provide and integrate the combat system for the Bulgarian Navy’s new Multipurpose Modular Patrol Vessels, MMPV. Naval News Staff 08 Dec 2020 Saab press release Lürssen is theContinue reading “Saab to equip Bulgarian Navy’s new Multipurpose Modular Patrol Vessels”
USS Idaho (BB-42), a New Mexico-class battleship, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 43rd state. She was the third of three ships of her class. Built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation of Camden, New Jersey, she was launched in June 1917 and commissioned in March 1919. She was armed with a battery of twelve 14-inch (356 mm) guns in four three-gun turrets, and was protected by heavy armor plate, with her main belt armor being 13.5 inches (343 mm) thick
Idaho spent most of the 1920s and 1930s in the Pacific Fleet, where she conducted routine training exercises. Like her sister ships, she was modernized in the early 1930s. In mid-1941, before the United States entered World War II, Idaho and her sisters were sent to join the Neutrality Patrols that protected American shipping duringContinue reading “USS Idaho (BB-42), a New Mexico-class battleship, was the fourth ship of the United States Navy to be named for the 43rd state. She was the third of three ships of her class. Built by the New York Shipbuilding Corporation of Camden, New Jersey, she was launched in June 1917 and commissioned in March 1919. She was armed with a battery of twelve 14-inch (356 mm) guns in four three-gun turrets, and was protected by heavy armor plate, with her main belt armor being 13.5 inches (343 mm) thick”
USS RANGER (CV-4) Ranger Class Aircraft Carrier; headed upstream in the Mississippi River for a port visit to New Orleans.” post WW II
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Long-neglected hydrofoil USS High Point has a new owner
The USS High Point, in the early 1960s. U.S. NAVY HIGH POINT, N.C. (Tribune News Service) — Nearly 3,000 miles across the country, at an old naval shipyard in Astoria, Oregon, rests an aging, neglected vessel that could just as easily be found in a scrapyard as a shipyard. She was really something to seeContinue reading “Long-neglected hydrofoil USS High Point has a new owner”
