Photos Navies Of All Nations

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France:
Helicopter cruiser 'Jeanne d'Arc' (R97) shows of her Exocet and 100mm armament.
It's worth noting the ship wasn't exactly a hard-core combatant - although she had warfighting capabilities (specifically as an ASW or amphibious assault platform), her primary role was as a training ship, replacing an earlier training cruiser completed in 1931 of the same name. The initial armament of the ship was limited to the four 100/55 Mle 1953 (13.5 kg shell, 60 rpm per gun) and four embarked helicopters, with Launchers for six Exocet missiles being added in 1974.

 

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Spain:
D21 "Lepanto" (Ex DD550 USS "Capps")

 

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France:
Lead ASW frigate of her class 'Aquitaine' (D650) passes through Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas vertical-lift bridge over the Garonne in Bordeaux, France. July 2013

 

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Timor Leste:
Jaco class (ex Type 062 (NATO Shanghai III) class gunboat) NRTL 'Betano' (P215) off Pante Macassar, Timor-Leste. 28 Nov 2015

 

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France:
FS Aquitaine D650

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where is this bridge ?
happy holidays

 

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Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas - Wikipedia

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Pont Jacques Chaban-Delmas - Wikipedia

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RN:
Top: Invincible class light aircraft carriers HMS Illustrious (R06), left & HMS Ark Royal (R07), right, at HMNB Portsmouth. Dec 3, 2006

Bottom: HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales

HMS Ark Royal, Invincible and Illustrious

R-L HM Ships Lancaster, Kent, Trent and Medway with ex-RFA Diligence in the background, home for Christmas Leave 2019

HMS Audacious, in the water for the first time

 

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Italy:
Garibaldi (551) traverses the canal at Taranto to Mar Piccolo for maintenance - 15 December 2019

OTO Melara 76mm gun equipped with STRALES

 

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Italy:
Submarine 'Leonardo Da Vinci' covered in snow in La Spezia, February 1963
Da Vinci was the former USS Dace, built in 1942-1943. She had participated in World War II, sinking 28,000 tons of shipping in the Pacific (including the heavy cruiser Maya at Leyte Gulf), then had been placed in reserve in 1946, decommissioned in 1947, recommissioned in 1951, placed again in reserve in 1953, modernized in 1954 and lent to Italy in 1955 as part of the Mutual Defense Assistance Act. It served under Italian flag from 1955 to 1972, and was scrapped in 1975.

 

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Japan:
JS Izumo (DDH-183)

Destroyers moored in Yokosuka

S Oryu(SS-511) left side view at the Mitsubishi Dockyard, Kobe

 

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USN:
Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS John S. McCain (DDG 56) fires its Mark 45 5-inch gun during a live-fire exercise, 31 October 2019

PACIFIC OCEAN (Nov. 13, 2019) The amphibious assault ship USS America (LHA 6) departs its homeport of Naval Base San Diego. America departed San Diego to join the forward-deployed naval forces in Sasebo, Japan, where it will serve as the flagship for Expeditionary Strike Group 7. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Chad Swysgood/Released)

BAB AL-MANDEB STRAIT (Dec. 17, 2019) The Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), left, the fast combat support ship USNS Supply (T-AOE 6), and the guided-missile destroyer USS Forrest Sherman (DDG 98) transit the Bab al-Mandeb Strait behind the guided-missile cruiser USS Normandy (CG 60), not pictured. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (CSG) is operating in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of operations in support of naval operations to ensure maritime stability and security in the Central Region, connecting the Mediterranean and Pacific through the western Indian Ocean and three strategic choke points. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Michael H. Lehman/Released)

Naval Base Guam Harbor Security Forces escort the Los Angeles-class fast attack submarine USS Topeka (SSN 754) as it transits Apra Harbor to return to homeport, Dec. 20, 2019. Topeka is one of four forward-deployed submarines assigned to Commander, Submarine Squadron out of Polaris Point, Guam. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Randall W. Ramaswamy (Released)

 

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USSR:
A simultaneous exhibition by grossmeister Paul Keres onboard battleship Oktyabrskaya Revolyutsiya (October Revolution), 1946.
Keres was a chess champion, and you can see him playing against all those people at the same time, he was playing on 40 different boards simultaneously on this occasion.
Keres (from Estonia) is widely considered to have been the strongest chess player never to have won the world championship. He defeated nine world champions in individual games during his career, including American Bobby Fischer. (There have only been 16 world chess champions since 1886.) The current champion is Magnus Carlsen of Norway.

 

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Uruguay:
'Uruguay' R01, a French frigate of Joào Belo class.
Displacement: 1750 tonnes
Length: 102.7m
Complement: 169
Armament: Three Canon de 100mm, although one was replaced by an Exocet. This ship is also armed with 2 x 40mm guns, 1 x 305-milimetre anti-submarine mortar and 6 x 550-milimetre torpedo tubes.

 

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Russia:
Flagship of the Russian Navy's Pacific Fleet "Varyag" in Hakodate, Hokkaido, Japan

 

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South Africa:
HMSAS Natal, a hydrographic surveying ship for the South African Navy from 1956. HMSAS Natal (pennant number: K10) was one of three Loch-class frigates in the South African Navy (SAN). It was built as HMS Loch Cree (K430) for the Royal Navy during World War II, but was transferred to the SAN before completion in 1945 and renamed as HMSAS Natal. Just hours after finishing fitting out, the ship sank a German submarine off the coast of Scotland in early 1945. It was assigned convoy escort duties for the remaining few months of the war in Europe.

 

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Spain:
Air-Defence Frigate 'Cristóbal Colón' (F 105)
Cristóbal Colón is the fifth of five Álvaro de Bazán-class frigates (also known as F100-class) operated by the Armada Española (Spanish Navy). Cristóbal Colón actually differs from her sister in a number of ways, and was built much later - Méndez Núñez (F 104) was laid down in 2003 and commissioned in 2016, but Cristóbal Colón was only laid down in 2009, commissioning in 2012.

These improvements include a bow thruster, a slightly improved self-defense battery (a pair of 25mm cannons instead of the 20mm Oerlikons used by her sisters), as well as an improved radar suite and Combat System (Aegis).

Though only a ‘frigate’ her AAW capabilities are in line with the AAW destroyers operated by the major European navies, boasting 48 Mk.41 cells, loaded with 32x SM-3 and 16x ESSM quadpacks (64 ESSM), giving it excellent air defense capabilities. The anti-ship punch of these ships is provided by eight (2x4) RGM-84F Harpoon AShM. For self-defense against submarines, two twin 324mm launchers are provided for US Mk.46 mod 4 lightweight torpedoes, and an SH-60 is carried that can also contribute to defense against submarines. The ballistic armament is centered on an American 5”/54 Mk.45 mod.2, backed up two installations for 25mm Bushmasters and four 0.50-caliber machine guns.

The F100 design has had considerable export success, serving as the basis of the five Fridtjof Nansen-class frigates operated by the Norwegian navy, and the trio of Hobart-class destroyers operated by the Royal Australian Navy. It is also one of the remaining contenders for the American FFG(X) frigate program via General Dynamics, though its chances are not considered particularly strong due to damage to the reputation of the class after the loss of Helge Ingstad last year. However, it is still quite a potent design, and the fact it relies heavily on American equipment should help its chances.

 

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Netherlands:
HNLMS Walrus docked in naval station Norfolk, Virginia following TAVDEVEX-08 Oct 29 2008

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HNLMS De Ruyter (F806) sails with her replacement HNLMS De Zeven Provinciën (F802), c2001

 

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Imperial Japan:
Nagara class light cruiser 'Abukuma' circa 1941, showing the Kawanishi E7K1 "Alf" floatplane on the catapult.