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Scheibel Camcopter S-100 Completes Sea Trials in German Navy

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 02:05 PM CST

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Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) are being developed for marine applications particularly for Intelligence, Surveillance, Target Acquisition and Reconnaissance (ISTAR) platforms. The German Navy recently conducted integration trials of Scheibel’s vertical take-off, vertical landing unmanned air vehicle ‘Camcopter S-100′  onboard their latest K130 Class Corvettes. Camcopter S-100 is designed for a Maximum Take Off Weight (MTOW) of 200 kg, to carry 50 kg of payloads in an operating radius of up to 180 km with an endurance in excess of 6 hours.

The German Navy conducted sea trials [most probably onboard FGS Braunschweig (F260)] for three weeks during the summer of 2008 in the Baltic Sea. Some of the interesting features of Camcopter S-100’s sea trials are:

  • maximum take-off weight (MTOW) tested was 190 kg.
  • more than 130 take-offs were carried out during a total flight time of 20 hours.
  • tested in wind speeds over the flight deck up to 40 knots.
  • tried out on wet deck with roll angles of more than plus or minus 15°.

In the past Camcopter S-100 was demonstrated to Indian, Pakistani and Spanish Maritime agencies.camcopter_s100_2

The photographs shown are from Scheibel and you can view more photographs of Camcopter S-100 at Scheibel.

Here is an interesting video clip of Scheibel’s Camcopter S-100.

Interesting video clips of Germany’s K130 Class Corvette, FGS Braunschweig (F260) are here. Clip1 and Clip2.

Read more regarding sea trials of Camcopter S-100 from Scheibel Press (pdf doc).

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Indian Navy Ship Tabar Prevents Piracy Attack on Indian Merchant Vessel

Posted: 11 Nov 2008 09:12 AM CST

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Today (November 11), Indian Navy Ship Tabar on piracy patrol in the Gulf of Aden has successfully prevented a piracy attack on M V Jag Arnav of Great Eastern Shipping Company.

Some of the interesting features of the operation are:

  • When M V Jag Arnav, 38,265-tonne dry bulk carrier was about 60 nautical miles off east of Aden, noticed (around 1030 hours local time) pirates armed with automatic weapons approaching the vessel on speed boats. The vessel raised an alarm.
  • INS Tabar some 25 nautical miles away from the merchant vessel immediately launched an armed helicopter with marine commandos to intervene and prevent the pirates from boarding and hijacking the merchant vessel.
  • The attempt by the pirates to hijack the vessel was successfully foiled by marine commandos of INS Tabar. There after INS Tabar moved closer to the vessel to escort her safely.
  • INS Tabar, the third Talwar class Frigate of Indian Navy was built in Baltic Shipyard in St. Petersburg and was commissioned at Baitiysk (Kaliningrad) on April 19, 2004.
  • Here are some details on M V Jag Arnav from Great Eastern Shipping Company.
  • Whether INS Tabar did something more like Danish warship Absalon is not available.

Here is a photograph of INS Tabar

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Here is an interesting video clip of Jackstay between INS Tabar and INS Trishul during family day.

Well done INS Tabar.

Read more from Express India and Press Information Bureau.

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Update: November 11

It is coming to light that the Saudi flagged MV NCC Thihama was also under piracy threat around the same time and INS Tabar’s timely action has saved Saudi vessel also from pirates. Read more from DDI News.


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Greenpeace Protests Forest Crime at Dumai Port

Posted: 10 Nov 2008 11:55 PM CST

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Forests in the the Indonesian province of Riau, on the island of Sumatra are being destroyed for oil palm cultivation. Palm oil produced is exported to western countries through ships. A study released in February 2008, estimated that deforestation of 4.2 million hectares of tropical forest and peat swamp in Riau over the past 25 years has generated 3.7 gigatons of carbon dioxide emissions.

Greenpeace has protested this exploitation of forests in a unique way. The large tanker ‘Gran Couva’ carrying 27,000 metric tonnes of palm oil from Dumai Port of Indonesia to Rotterdam was painted ‘Forest Crime’ and ‘Climate Crime’ in bright yellow paint (as seen in the picture below). To minimize hardship to ships crew, Greenpeace used water based paint to display their protests.

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Image credit:Greenpeace

Read rest of the story at Greenpeace-Making Waves.

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