Photos Navies Of All Nations

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Egypt:
Alexandria Shipyard has launched the second Gowind 2500 multi-mission corvette of the Egyptian Navy, ENS Luxor (986), during a ceremony at its facility in Alexandria, Egypt on May 14.

 

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USN:
"SOUTH CHINA SEA (July 6, 2020) Aircraft from Carrier Air Wing 5 and Carrier Air Wing 17 fly in formation over the Nimitz Carrier Strike Force (CSF). The USS Nimitz (CVN-68) and USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76) Carrier Strike Groups are conducting dual carrier operations in the Indo-Pacific as the Nimitz CSF."

Ticonderoga-class guided missile cruiser USS Bunker Hill (CG-52), front, and the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Barry (DDG-52) transit the South China Sea April 18, 2020. US Navy Photo

USS Gabrielle Giffords (LCS-10) conducts routine operations near the Panamanian flagged drill ship, West Capella on May 12, 2020. US Navy Photo

 

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Imperial Japan:
"Kōtetsu (甲鉄, literally "Ironclad"), later renamed Azuma (東, "East"), was the first ironclad warship of the Imperial Japanese Navy. She was built in Bordeaux, France in 1864 for the Confederate States Navy under the cover name Sphynx and commissioned as CSS Stonewall. Japan acquired her from the USA in February 1869. She was designed as an armored ram but also carried three guns: one 21 cm (8.3 in) and two 17 cm (6.7 in) pieces in armored turrets. She had a decisive role in the Naval Battle of Hakodate Bay in May 1869, which marked the end of the Boshin War, and the completion of the military phase of the Meiji Restoration."

 

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France:
Amphibious assault helicopter carrier FS Tonnerre in Toulon

Destroyer 'Chevalier Paul' (Horizon-class) and light frigate 'Guépratte' (La Fayette-class) off the coast of Toulon

 

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USN:
Curtiss SB2C-3 Helldiver aircraft bank over the carrier before landing, following strikes on Japanese shipping in the China Sea, circa mid-January 1945. Photographed by Lieutenant Commander Charles Kerlee, USNR. Official U.S. Navy Photograph,

USS Ancon anchored off Omaha beach, Normandy, June 1944, where it served as floating staff HQ and flagship of the D-Day amphibious force.

USS Cleveland (CL-55) in 1945

USS Bennington (CV-20) photographed from a plane that has just taken off from her flight deck, during the ship's shakedown period, 20 October 1944. Official U.S. Navy Photograph

PT-628, a 78-foot Higgins boat, during testing on Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, United States, Jan 1945.

 

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USSR:
Light cruiser Maxim Gorkiy in icy waters, 1941-1942

Kildin-class guided missile Neulovimyy underway after her modernization. Neulovimyy was modernized from 2 December 1971 to 4 October 1972 at the Nikolaev Shipyard No. 445 and equipped with 4 KT-15M launchers for the P-15 Termit (SS-N-S Styx) anti-ship missiles.

 

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Italy:
An Italian motor torpedo boat in the Adriatic Sea, circa 1960. MS 453 was a 78' Higgins PT Boat, launched in 1942, commissioned in 1949 and retired in 1980

 

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West Germany:
FGS HESSEN (D 184) underway during NATO Exercise NORTHERN WEDDING 86. 1st August 1986

 

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Sweden:

Torpedo gunboat Claes Uggla

Armoured cruiser Fylgia

Cruiser Tre Kronor

Fast torpedo boat T47

Destroyer Halland (J18)

 

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Italy:
Horizon class destroyer Caio Duilio

 

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Greece, RN & Germany:
During this 2017 PASSEX, HS Salamis almost looks like HMS Duncan's little brother with FGS Lubeck close behind.

 

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2010: French helicopter carrier Jeanne d'Arc is visiting the port of Hamburg, Germany and a 21 gun salute is in order.

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Denmark:
Iver Huitfeldt-class frigate HDMS Niels Juel (F363)

HDMS Vædderen (F359) Port of Kolafjordur, Faroe Islands, January 2019

HDMS ESBERN SNARE (L17). 2nd Feb 2019 Odense, Denmark

23rd August 2007, Corvette HDMS PETER TORDENSKIOLD (F356).

28th August 2013, Öresund Strait. Royal yacht HDMY DANNEBROG (A540).

 

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Italy:
Launch of Amerigo Vespucci, Feb. 1931

Amerigo Vespucci July 1, 2020 in front of Genova Harbour

 

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Battleship Andrea Doria at Trieste in 1937. The Duilio-class battleship Andrea Doria was taken in charge of the San Marco shipyard of the CRDA on 8 April 1937, to be thoroughly rebuilt ("modernisation" seems reductive, as the scale of the process was very large and the majority of the ship's very structures was removed and/or replaced).

The rebuilds were a large waste of time, money and resources that almost certainly would have been better spent on modernising other components of Italy's navy. None of the Andrea Doria rebuilds performed well during the sea wars for the Mediterranean.

 

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Italy:
Horizon class destroyer Caio Duilio

Interesting design. Three main guns is a lot of artillery for a modern warship, isn't it? I'm loving it.

 

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Sweden:

Torpedo gunboat Claes Uggla
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Armoured cruiser Fylgia
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Cruiser Tre Kronor
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Fast torpedo boat T47
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Destroyer Halland (J18)
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Sweden has a pretty cool institution: The Veteranflottiljen

T56 the same model as the T47 in the pictures

Starting the three Isotta Fraschini CRM 18D/SS Turbodiesels

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Riding on the T56 it has a top speed of 48kn

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They have those cool events called EDIP

EDIP 2015

Missile Boat R142 Ystad, Torpedo Boat T121 Spica, Motor Torpedo Boat T46, Motor Torpedo Boat T56

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EDIP 2018

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Interesting design. Three main guns is a lot of artillery for a modern warship, isn't it? I'm loving it.

The Italians just love their Oto Melara! They use them mainly as a CIWS armament. With the latest guided rounds they have greater range than smaller calibres and are very accurate with a rate of fire up to 120rpm. The Horizon class have a 3rd mount on the hangar roof

 

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Now we need the return of the twin barrels.

 

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Italy:
Launch of Amerigo Vespucci, Feb. 1931

Amerigo Vespucci July 1, 2020 in front of Genova Harbour

Amerigo Vespucci was second ship of the two ships project, the first, Cristoforo Colombo, was put into service in 1928 and was used until 1943. After World War II, the ship was handed over to the Soviet Union as part of the war reparations, was renamed Dunay and was in service until 1959. Then she was destroyed in a fire in 1963.