Day: April 23, 2024

Ukraine war live updates: Ukraine disputes Russia’s claim to have seized another village; Kyiv, Odesa targeted in drone strikes  NBC New York

Ukraine war live updates: Ukraine disputes Russia’s claim to have seized another village; Kyiv, Odesa targeted in drone strikes  NBC DFW

Putin’s Aides Now Blame UK, US And Ukraine Outright For Moscow Attack  HuffPost UK

The former chairman of the Verkhovna Rada’s agriculture committee and current minister, Mykola Solskyi, was caught taking possession of state land worth UAH 291 million and attempting to take possession of land worth another UAH 190 million.

Ex-spy whose book foreshadowed Hamas attack fears for Israel’s future  RFI English

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<p class=”text-body text-muted small”>The Brazilian Navy wants to improve the radar capabilities of its OPVs. (Victor Barreira)</p>
<p>As part of an effort to update its Amazonas-class offshore patrol vessels (OPVs), the Brazilian Navy is acquiring a new air and surface search radar with identification friend-or-foe capability (IFF), according to the Navy Weapon Systems Directorate (Diretoria de Sistemas de Armas da Marinha: DSAM).</p>
<p>
The Brazilian Naval Commission in Washington, DC, (Comissão Naval Brasileira em Washington: CNBW) on behalf of the DSAM has
<strong></strong>
requested a request for information (RFI) and the price availability for up to three radars on 25 March.
</p>
<p>
The navy seeks to recover the combat capability of the OPVs by updating several of the ship’s systems, the Navy Directorate-General for Material (Diretoria-Geral do Material da Marinha: DGMM) recently told
<em>Janes</em>
.
</p>
<p>The modernisation of the OPVs will be carried out by the DSAM, the DGMM added, without detailing a schedule and the scale of the effort.</p>
<p>The DSAM is subordinated to the DGMM.</p>
<p>Brazil is seeking a radar offering a minimum air instrumented range of 100 km, a minimum surface instrumented range of 60 km, and the capability to simultaneously track a minimum of 100 targets, the DSAM said.</p>
<p>The new radar aims to replace the SCANTER 4100 X-band 2D radar.</p>
<p>The Brazilian OPV fleet is composed of the NPaOc Amazonas (P120) and the NPaOc Apa (P121) subordinated to the 1st Naval District and the NPaOc Araguari (P122) of the 3rd Naval District.</p>
<p><em>For more information on the Brazilian Navy</em>
‘s
<em> modernisation efforts, please see</em>Brazilian Navy’s DGMM details its modernisation organisation

.
</p>

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<p class=”text-body text-muted small”>Singapore’s fourth Type 218SG submarine, seen here before its launch ceremony on 22 April 2024. (Singapore Ministry of Defence)</p>
<p>German shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has launched the last of four Invincible-class (Type 218SG) air-independent propulsion (AIP)-equipped diesel-electric submarines (SSKs) on order for the Republic of Singapore Navy (RSN).</p>
<p>
The vessel, which will be known in service as RSS
<em>Inimitable</em>
once commissioned, was launched on 22 April at TKMS’ facilities in Kiel, Germany, the Singapore Ministry of Defence (MINDEF) announced in a statement on the same day.
</p>
<p>“Conceptualised and engineered jointly by the RSN, Defence Science and Technology Agency (DSTA), and industry partner TKMS, the Invincible-class submarines are customised for operations in Singapore’s shallow and busy tropical waters, and they possess longer endurance and higher payloads,” read the statement.</p>
<p>
“Following the launch,
<em>Inimitable</em>
will undergo a series of sea trials before delivery to Singapore,” the ministry added, further disclosing that the second-of-class SSK that was launched in 2022,
<em>Impeccable</em>
, is still undergoing a series of local sea trials with plans to fully operationalise and commission it in 2024.
</p>
<p>Singapore first announced that it has signed a contract for the first two submarines of the class with TKMS in December 2013 and subsequently disclosed an order for two more vessels in May 2017. The contracts include a logistics and training package for RSN crew to train in Germany.</p>
<p>
The first-of-class,
<em>Invincible</em>
, was launched in February 2019. The second- and third-of-class, which have been named
<em>Impeccable</em>
and
<em>Illustrious</em>
respectively, were both launched in December 2022.
<em>Impeccable</em>
arrived in Singapore in July 2023 but its sister vessels are still in Germany for training and familiarisation operations.
</p>

Putin Annexes Ukraine Village in Donetsk Region As Zelensky Waits For U.S’ $61bn Aid  MSN

Ukraine faces retreat without US aid, Zelensky says  CNN

Musk predicts Russia will ‘certainly gain more land’ from Ukraine  Business Insider