ThyssenKrupp Technologies erhält U-Boot-Großauftrag aus der Türkei

Die Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH (HDW), Kiel, ein Unternehmen von ThyssenKrupp Technologies, und MarineForce International LLP (MFI), London, haben gestern einen Vertrag über die Lieferung von sechs Materialpaketen zum Bau von U-Booten der Klasse 214 an die Türkei unterzeichnet.

Die Vertragsunterzeichnung fand in Ankara im Beisein des türkischen Verteidigungsministers Mehmet Vecdi Gönül, des Vorstandsvorsitzenden der ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG Dr. Olaf Berlien, des Mitglieds des Vorstands der ThyssenKrupp Technologies AG Dr. Hans Christoph Atzpodien, des Parlamentarischen Staatssekretärs im Bundesministerium der Verteidigung Thomas Kossendey und des Inspekteurs der Deutschen Marine Vizeadmiral Wolfgang E. Nolting statt.

Die sechs U-Boote, die mit einem außenluftunabhängigen Antrieb auf Basis der HDW Brennzoffzellentechnologie ausgerüstet sind, werden auf der türkischen Werft Gölçük Naval Shipyards (GNSY) bei Izmit gefertigt. Hier wurden zuvor bereits elf U-Boote der Klasse 209 für die türkische Marine gebaut.

Mit der Türkei rüstet ein weiteres Land seine Marine mit dem derzeit modernsten außenluftunabhängigen U-Boottyp aus. Zukünftig werden somit auf den Weltmeeren 36 U-Boote mit einem HDW Brennstoffzellenantrieb unterwegs sein.

Dr. Olaf Berlien unterstreicht die Bedeutung des neuen Großauftrags: „Die Position von HDW als Weltmarktführer im Segment der nicht-nuklearen U-Boote wird weiter gestärkt. Durch den Auftrag werden sowohl die Arbeitsplätze bei HDW als auch mehrere hundert Arbeitsplätze bei Zulieferern in ganz Deutschland langfristig gesichert.“

Krause-Traudes:
Das Joint Support Ship wird von uns parallel zum Vorhaben K131 vorangetrieben. Ganz deutlich ist aber hier der Punkt zu machen, dass es sich beim JSS um ein echtes streitkräftegemeinsames Projekt handelt. [...] bis Ende des nächsten Jahrzehnts als eine neue Fähigkeit für die Streitkräfte und damit in Form einer zukunftseisenden Plattform zu realisieren. Das dritte Vorhaben, das Mehrzweckeinsatzschiff, soll nach 2020 den dann in der Marine eingeführten modularen Systemen als Plattform dienen [...]

MZES ich dachte das soll nur EIN Schiff werden als „Forschungsschiff/Fähigkeitsträger“ (Ähnlich der Planet) für zukünftige Modulbauweisen?

Die Franzosen scheinen uns mal wieder ausgestochen zu haben. Will heißen: Keine U-214 nach Pakistan, dafür Marlin. Kaum zu glauben, dabei war der deal doch zu 95% schon abgeschlossen.

http://pakobserver.net/200908/01/news/topstories03.asp

Da können wir aber froh sein, dass Pakistan nix von uns nimmt.
Der Schuss geht bestimmt noch nach hinten los!

Das einzige wo sich wohl ein SWATH-Boot bei der Bundeswehr derzeit vielleicht anbieten würde, wäre vielleicht als Träger fürs MZES.

Australian future submarine plans to receive a more distinct shape

Minister of Defence announces design study in Australia’s biggest defence project

07:59 GMT, August 14, 2009 defpro.com | Australia’s next-generation submarine plans are progressing as the Minister of Defence, Sen. John Faulkner, recently announced a request for tenders (RFT) to complete a design study for what will be the most expensive defence procurement project in the country’s history. The Future Submarine Project, dubbed SEA 1000, is expected to cost nearly $17 billion. ...

Heavy metal scare in Australian subs

By National security correspondent Matt Brown

Posted Wed Sep 2, 2009 9:00pm AEST
Updated 6 hours 4 minutes ago


The Royal Australian Navy has banned maintenance on Australia's submarine fleet, warning workers they could be contaminated by the heavy metal cadmium. ...

Littoral Combat Ship Down Select Announced

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The Navy cancelled the solicitation to procure up to three LCS Flight 0+ ships in fiscal 2010 due to affordability. Based on proposals received this summer, it was not possible to execute the LCS program under the current acquisition strategy and given the expectation of constrained budgets. The new LCS acquisition strategy improves affordability by competitively awarding a larger number of ships across several years to one source. The Navy will accomplish this goal by issuing a new fixed price incentive solicitation for a down select to one of the two designs beginning in fiscal 2010.

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[...]
Die meisten Experten erwarten in den kommenden Monaten „schlechte Nachrichten“ für General Dynamics/Austal, deren INDEPENDENCE nach größeren Bauverzögerungen erst im Juli dieses Jahres mit Erprobungen in See beginnen konnte. Die im November 2008 in Dienst gestellte FREEDOM hatte zu dieser Zeit schon sämtliche Abnahmefahrten erfolgreich abgeschlossen und kann jetzt mit der operativen Erprobung (u.a. auch der diversen Einsatzmodule) beginnen.
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Bye-bye Prestige-Projekt - Briten erwägen Verzicht auf Atom-U-Boot-Flotte

Großbritannien hat einen der größten Verteidigungsetats der Welt, doch in der Rezession erscheint milliardenteures Militärgerät wie Atom-U-Boote und Flugzeugträger als verzichtbarer Luxus. Das Militär wird bluten, egal wer nächstes Jahr regiert. Spötter sprechen schon von "Kleinbritannien".

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HDW stoppt U-Boot-Verträge mit Griechen

Hamburg/Kiel (dpa) - Die Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH, die zum Werftenverbund ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) gehört, hat U- Boot-Verträge mit dem griechischen Verteidigungsministerium gekündigt.

Grund dafür sind ausstehenden Zahlungen in Höhe von rund 524 Millionen Euro, wie TKMS am Montag in Hamburg mitteilte. Die Verträge zwischen HDW sowie Hellenic Shipyards S.A. (HSY/Athen), die ebenfalls zum TKMS-Verbund gehören, und dem griechischen Verteidigungsministerium waren in den Jahren 2000 und 2002 unterschrieben worden. Von den ausstehenden Zahlungen entfallen 300 Millionen auf HSY. Beide Unternehmen wollen ein Schiedsverfahren einleiten.

Der erste Auftrag umfasste den Bau von vier U-Booten der Klasse U214 mit einem außenluftunabhängigem Brennstoffzellenantrieb für die griechische Marine (Programm «Archimedes»). Alle vier U-Boote seien mittlerweile fertiggestellt, teilte TKMS mit. Der zweite Bauauftrag («Neptun II») umfasste die Modernisierung von drei U-Booten der Klasse 209, die ebenfalls auf Brennstoffzellentechnologie umgestellt wurden. 2006 hatten HDW und HSY dem Verteidigungsministerium das erste U-Boot der Klasse 214 angeboten.

Der Kunde habe das Boot nicht abgenommen, obwohl es alle Leistungsnachweise erbracht habe und diese teilweise sogar deutlich übererfüllt wurden, teilte TKMS mit. HDW und HSY hätten über mehr als zwei Jahre Gespräche mit der griechischen Regierung geführt, die keine Lösung brachten. Für HDW und HSY sei eine Fortführung des Vertrages aus wirtschaftlicher Sicht nicht länger vertretbar.

Seit dem Erwerb der griechischen Werft Hellenic Shipyards im Januar 2005 habe ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems HSY modernisiert und ausgebaut. Heute verfüge Griechenlands größte Werft über die modernste Fertigung konventioneller U-Boote im Mittelmeer-Raum, hieß es.

Taipei: Taiwan is considering purchasing four German-built submarines that had been rejected by the Greek Navy, a report said Wednesday.

According to Next Magazine, Taiwan's military approached Kiel-based shipbuilder Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft (HDW) for four Class 214s after Athens rejected them for not meeting standard requirements.

"The defence ministry has sent personnel to Germany, who have discussed a deal with the shipbuilder," the popular Taipei-based weekly said, citing an unnamed military source.

Taiwan's defence ministry said it was not aware of the report and would continue negotiations to buy submarines from the United States, the island's leading arms supplier.

Taiwan and mainland China have been governed separately since the end of a 1949 civil war, but Beijing has repeatedly threatened to invade should the island declare formal independence.

Beijing has previously asked the United States to permanently end arm sales to Taiwan. Washington is the island's leading arms supplier, despite switching diplomatic recognition from Taipei
to Beijing in 1979.

Taiwanese President Ma Ying-jeou, who took over from independence-leaning Chen Shui-bian in 2008, had said the island needed to secure defensive weapons from the United States despite warming ties with China.

The Taiwanese navy currently operates a fleet of four submarines, but only two of them, Dutch-built, could be deployed in the event of war. The other two were built by the United States in the 1940s.

Taiwan in talks with Germany over four submarines: report

Rheinmetall rüstet die neuen deutschen Fregatten F125 mit Marineleichtgeschützen MLG 27 aus

Rheinmetall Defence ist mit der Lieferung von zwölf weiteren Marineleichtgeschützen MLG 27 an die Deutsche Marine beauftragt worden. Das Auftragsvolumen beläuft sich auf insgesamt rund 11,6 MioEUR.

Maßgeschneiderter Marineschutz
Rheinmetall Chempro GmbH entwickelt modular konzipiertes Plattenstecksystem

In dem Text ist von Exportkunden die rede.
Kann mir jemand verraten wer das ist.

USS Freedom to Deploy Early

(Source: US Department of Defense; issued Oct. 13, 2009)

WASHINGTON (NNS) -- The Navy announced Oct. 13 the decision to deploy the USS Freedom (LCS 1) in early 2010 to the Southern Command and Pacific Command areas ahead of her originally scheduled 2012 maiden deployment.

According to Navy leaders, Littoral Combat Ships (LCS) are needed now to close urgent warfighting gaps.

"Deploying LCS now is a big step forward in getting this ship where it needs to be – operating in the increasingly important littoral regions," said Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations. "We must deliver this critical capability to the warfighter now."
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Die arabische Gruppe Abu Dhabi MAR übernimmt 80 Prozent des zivilen und 50 Prozent des Marineschiffbaus an Blohm + Voss. Hamburger Politiker, Handelskammer und Industrieverband begrüßen den Erwerb der Werft. Dagegen fürchten IG Metall und Betriebsräte um Beschäftigung.

By DAVID SHARP (AP) – 22 hours ago

BATH, Maine — The Navy's need for speed is being answered by a pair of warships that have reached freeway speeds during testing at sea.

Independence, a 418-foot warship built in Alabama, boasts a top speed in excess of 45 knots, or about 52 mph, and sustained 44 knots for four hours during builder trials that wrapped up this month off the Gulf Coast. The 378-foot Freedom, a ship built in Wisconsin by a competing defense contractor, has put up similar numbers.

Both versions of the Littoral Combat Ship use powerful diesel engines, as well as gas turbines for extra speed. They use steerable waterjets instead of propellers and rudders and have shallower drafts than conventional warships, letting them zoom close to shore.

The ships, better able to chase down pirates, have been fast-tracked because the Navy wants vessels that can operate in coastal, or littoral, waters. Freedom is due to be deployed next year, two years ahead of schedule.

Independence is an aluminum, tri-hulled warship built by Austal USA in Mobile, Ala. The lead contractor is Maine's Bath Iron Works, a subsidiary of General Dynamics.

Lockheed Martin Corp. is leading the team that built Freedom in Marinette, Wis. It looks more like a conventional warship, with a single hull made of steel.

The stakes are high for both teams. The Navy plans to select Lockheed Martin or General Dynamics, but not both, as the builder. The Navy has ordered one more ship from each of the teams before it chooses the final design. Eventually, the Navy wants to build up to 55 of them.

Speed has long been relished by Navy skippers. Capt. John Paul Jones, sometimes described as father of the U.S. Navy, summed it up this way in 1778: "I wish to have no connection with any ship that does not sail fast; for I intend to go in harm's way."

Eric Wertheim, author and editor of the U.S. Naval Institute's "Guide to Combat Fleets of the World," said speed is a good thing, but it comes at a cost.

"This is really something revolutionary," Wertheim said. "The question is how important and how expensive is this burst of speed?"

Early cost estimates for Littoral Combat Ships were about $220 million apiece, but costs spiraled because of the Navy's requirements and its desire to expedite construction. The cost of the ships is capped at $460 million apiece, starting in the new fiscal year.

Both ships are built to accommodate helicopters and mission "modules" for either anti-submarine missions, mine removal or traditional surface warfare. The goal is for the modules to be swapped out in 24 hours, and no later than 96 hours, allowing the ships to adapt quickly to new missions, said Cmdr. Victor Chen, a Navy spokesman.

While they're fast, they aren't necessarily the fastest military ships afloat. The Navy used to have missile-equipped hydrofoils and the Marines' air-cushioned landing craft is capable of similar speeds, Wertheim said. And smaller ships are capable of higher speeds.

Nonetheless, the speed is impressive, especially considering that other large naval vessels have been cruising along at a relatively pokey 30 to 35 knots for decades.

Loren Thompson, a defense analyst at the Lexington Institute, noted that Independence sustained 44 knots despite a 30-knot headwind and 6- to 8-foot seas in Alabama's Mobile Bay. "For a ship of this size, it's simply unheard of to sustain that rate of speed for four hours," he said.

Ich nehme zwei.

The Royal Navy has agreed to sacrifice one of its two new aircraft carriers to save about £8.2 billion from the defence budget.

The admirals, who have battled for a decade to secure the two new 65,000-ton carriers, have been forced to back down because of the soaring cost of the American-produced Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) aircraft due to fly off them.

The move is a blow to the navy’s prestige and has come on the heels of Gordon Brown’s announcement last month that he was axing one of the navy’s four Trident nuclear deterrent submarines.

It is too late for the navy to renege on contracts to build the two carriers, the Queen Elizabeth, due to go into service in 2016, and the Prince of Wales, due to follow in 2018. Although the second carrier will be built, it will be used as an amphibious commando ship, with only helicopters on board instead of JSF aircraft.

The move will leave the navy without a carrier when the Queen Elizabeth goes into refit, leaving open the possibility that it might have to borrow one from the French navy. In a meeting with Brown last year, Nicolas Sarkozy, the French president, had suggested that refits of French and British aircraft carriers should be co-ordinated.

The decision to have only one new aircraft carrier will cut the number of JSFs to be flown by RAF squadrons from 138 to about 50, saving £7.6 billion. At current prices, the aircraft will cost close to £90m each, but this could rise to more than £100m.

Using the Prince of Wales as a commando ship will save a further £600m, the amount that would have been needed to replace the amphibious landing ship Ocean, which is due to go out of service in 2018.

The decision to cut the number of JSF aircraft has been agreed by senior navy and air force commanders in discussions preparing for the strategic defence review.

Both Labour and the Conservatives are committed to conducting a strategic defence review after the general election, which must be held by the late spring.

A senior Royal Navy officer said: “We always knew that the real cost of the carrier project is the JSF fleet to go on them. It would cost us at least £12 billion if we bought all the aircraft we originally asked for. We are waking up to the fact that all those planes are unaffordable. More than half of the £5 billion contracts to build the two new carriers have been contracted, so it is too late to get out of building the ships. This way at least we are covered when Ocean goes out of service.”

Since both aircraft carriers will still be built, there are unlikely to be job losses at the Rosyth ship yards, close to Brown’s constituency. The JSF aircraft are being built in Fort Worth, Texas, with the involvement of BAE Systems.

The RAF, which had been due to replace its Tornado aircraft with the JSF, will now equip all its frontline squadrons with Eurofighter aircraft instead.

The Conservatives said any decision to axe a carrier would be “absolutely unacceptable” and typical of the government’s “chaotic, inconsistent and incompetent defence procurement policy”.

Liam Fox, the shadow defence secretary, said the move exposed the government’s claim that it wanted a completely independent strategic defence review. “The government is saying it is fully committed to the carriers while at the same time forcing them to be cut,” he said.

“It is confusing for the navy, it is confusing for industry and it is completely inconsistent with the whole concept of running an independent defence review.”

The Ministry of Defence said Bob Ainsworth, the defence secretary, remained 100% committed to the carriers but “financial circumstances mean some difficult decisions will have to be taken to prioritise our forces’ efforts in Afghanistan”.

The Royal Navy currently has three smaller 20,600-ton carriers: Illustrious, Ark Royal and Invincible. Illustrious is on a visit to Liverpool. Invincible has already been mothballed.