She doesn’t really carry the towed array sonar.
She’s fit for, but not fitted with. I think the Dutch don’t even really own the towed arrays themselves, they just practice occasionally with an English one. The ships then go to sea, together with Mercuur, the submarine support ship. Mercuur has the Towed Array sonar onboard and it is then transferred to the Walrus, it’s clip-on unit.
That’s from the top of my head, I’ll have a look for the rest of it.

Edit, the thing on top of the bow is as far as I know, the DUUX-5. The rest of your information is correct I think.

Severnaya Verf launches Stoiky
corvette for Russian Navy
St. Petersburg’s Severnaya Verf shipyard laid the keel Friday of the Stoiky corvette for Russia’s Navy.
The Stoiky will be the fourth corvette of the Project 20380 series, after the Steregushchy, the Soobrazitelny and
the Boiky, designed by the Almaz Central Marine Design Bureau and built at the shipyard. Deputy Navy Commander
Mikhail Zakharenko, who took part in the keel-laying ceremony, said that the first ship built in the series, the
Steregushchy corvette, shipped out Friday for testing.

Navy Commander Admiral Vladimir Masorin said in May at the Steregushchy launch ceremony that the event marked
the beginning of a new stage in the development of Russian military shipbuilding.
“Russia must maintain its Navy,” he said, adding that Russia planned to launch a new ship in each design series every
year starting in 2006, and that construction of new combat ships will ensure security at sea and global stability.
“Ships of this series [project 20380] will also help ensure Russia’s energy security,” Masorin said. Russia has
designated energy security its number one priority during its tenure this year as chairman of the Group of Eight
leading industrialized nations. Masorin said the corvettes will protect oil and gas transportation routes, especially in the
Baltic Sea and the Black Sea.
The Boiky and the Soobrazitelny, ships of the same series, are still being constructed at the shipyard. The Stoiky
corvette has a displacement of 2,000 metric tons, a maximum speed of 27 knots, a crew of 100 and is equipped with
stealth technology.

From Tass.

CSSC buys Hudong Heavy Machinery
According to China Knowledge, China State Shipbuilding Corp, one of the world’s five biggest shipbuilders, will take
direct control of Shanghai-listed Hudong Heavy Machinery before its planned US$800 million IPO on the Hong Kong
Stock Exchange next year, according to the South China Morning Post on Thursday. Hudong Machinery, which has a
60% market share in Chinese production of low-speed diesel engines for ships, said Wednesday its two largest
shareholders will transfer their combined 53.27% stake to their parent, State Shipbuilding. The transaction will not
involve any cash. According to Hudong Machinery, the deal has already won approval from the China Securities
Regulatory Commission (CSRC) and the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission.

Sure that’s the same scale? Man that thing was huge…

Indeed Bazalt is the third from below, with Granit under it and Yakhont as the lowest.

Nice you mention that. Ti Europe was heading that way after I disembarked too.

Another recommendation would be to visit the C anchorage in Fujairah or the tanker anchorage in Singapore. Full of big boys. They don’t like small boats crossing in between though.

Yes those new AHTSS are getting big too. Question for you though, what is bollard pull? I know it’s expressed in tonnes but I have no clue how they measure it… Does it have something to do with the engine power or with the winch power?

As I expected, given their size and loading capacity.

Got to love this one, small ULCC Crawling on land. (of course sad if you think this is for scrapping). It would be cool to see one of these in the middle of a city, that would really show their size. This one is just a small ULCC though, 339,000dwt, you’re only ULCC from 300,000dwt so she’s only slightly over the limit. She’s 356m long instead of the regular 333m for a VLCC. Her draft and beam are more like a VLCC though. The Ti tankers are 442,000dwt, so that’s a USN CVN more in weight 😀

WisePanda,
here is the “verandah” starboard of the island. Doesn’t really look broad though, will be a tight fit if they want to move aircraft over it.

Overhaul of Kuz is only minor. An upgrade has been proposed several times, yet money is still a problem and at the moment she consumes all the money there is with her regular overhauls. Currently they are just repairing the damage done by the fire some time ago and probably putting some newer electronics in place.

Ochakov (upgraded Kara class) is going into upgrade soon too. Although they have said that many times before. Not sure if she will retain the name though, another city is now sponsoring the ship, seems that the Russian navy has put 200 million aside for her upgrade and B-380’s. Not a good way to spend your money though.

I am dreaming a multipole world in which every country supports its own interests its own culture and to be peacefully cooperating with others in economic affairs and in culture. Thats ALL.

That is what you say it is, just a dream. Such a world can’t exist and you know it. You cannot keep large economies next to each other peacefully. US economy going down the drain, they look for options to salvage it and see they have a HUGE military that can rip off other countries. They’d be stupid not to do that and those other countries are stupid enough to lay down their defences. Europe should have seen this and given up on their “few long range ships” type of navy. They used to have enough ships to take their defences to the ocean, but nowadays that isn’t going to work. So either they should build a sufficient number of good ships, or just move back to their home waters with a bigger number of stronger, more dedicated ships. If they keep the fleet they are building now, then I have no doubt that in the end they will be taken by someone with a cripling economy and a strong military, be that US, China or India. Everyone is managing his own business at the moment, but the problem is that those businesses run all over the world.

Same counts for Russia, and that is exactly what they are doing, taking their defences closer to homewaters and hence decreasign the necessary number of units. The fourth Stereguchiy has now been laid down by Severnaya, called Stoikiy.

As for the Talwar, it looks better on the pics than in real. It’s not at all suffcient to my level and I will get rid of her, or just leave her like this, somewhere in the back of the shelf. The LNG was a totally different approach of scratch building and is much more of a succes up till now.