Marine Algérienne

[HN-78]

ça peut etre aussi pour MHMR  ;)

 

[FARSOLDIER]

Algerian amphibious ship enters the water

 

The Algerian Navy's BDSL landing helicopter dock ship Kalaat Beni-Abbes, built by OSN at Fincantieri's Riva Trigoso shipyard, is seen here sailing by barge to the Muggiano shipyard, La Spezia, for outfitting. (Luca Peruzzi) 

 

The Algerian Navy's new multipurpose landing helicopter dock (LHD) ship entered the water for the first time on 14 January at Italian shipbuilder Fincantieri's Muggiano shipyard in La Spezia, Italy.

Built under the prime contractorship of Orizzonte Sistemi Navali (OSN), a Fincantieri/Selex ES joint venture, the BDSL (Bâtiment de Débarquement et de Soutien Logistique) vessel Kalaat Beni-Abbes (474) was originally scheduled for launch on 14 December 2013. However, because of an incident unrelated to the ship's delivery programme, the launch was delayed and the ship finally left Riva Trigoso's main shipyard by barge on 8 January, heading for Muggiano.

The completion of hull and superstructure build up to the point of formal launch was achieved 30 months after contract date.

Although OSN has not released details of the ship construction and outfitting programme, IHS Jane's understands that the programme is running ahead of schedule. OSN had already begun harbour acceptance trials in advance of the vessel sailing from Riva Trigoso, with sea trials scheduled to begin by April (two months ahead of schedule).

It is understood that platform and combat system customer acceptance trials will be completed before September, when the ship is scheduled for handover to the Algerian Navy.

Following handover, the ship will remain in Italy until the first quarter of 2015 for crew and maintenance staff training under the supervision of the Italian Navy.

As a subcontractor to OSN, the Italian Navy has taken on the task of developing the ship's training and qualification syllabus, providing (together with industry) shore- and sea-based training for the crew and support personnel at facilities in La Spezia and Taranto.

In October 2013 the first 100 out of a total of 180 personnel to be trained arrived in Taranto for a programme that included safety and emergency procedures familiarisation. In December an initial group of 45 personnel began platform systems and equipment courses at Fincantieri's recently activated training academy near Muggiano: this phase was conducted by industrial personnel as well as representatives from the Italian Navy's construction, test, and outfitting centre. Once these courses are completed, further shore-based training will take place under the Italian Navy team before the crew moves to on-ship training and support.

Beyond this, the crew will begin preparing to sail the vessel independently under the Italian Navy's Fleet Command, with the basic operational sea training phase commencing in Taranto. Here, the crew can use the Italian Navy's new warship simulator provided by ECA Sindel. The simulator replicates the LHD's integrated bridge, and combat information and platform control centres.

A live-firing exercise is expected to conclude crew qualification in the first quarter of 2015.

Although the vessel is based on the design of the Italian Navy's landing platform dock ITS San Giusto (L 9894), Kalaat Beni-Abbes is larger and has been redesigned according to the latest safety, MARPOL environmental protection, and construction standards. Designed and built under Italy's RINA SpA classification guidelines with the service notation 'amphibious warfare ship', the vessel's accommodation facilities and air-conditioning systems have been derived from Fincantieri's cruise ship-building work.

The 8,800-tonne full-load displacement vessel is 142.9 m long and 21.5 m in beam. It can carry more than 600 personnel, including a 152-strong crew, a flight operations detachment, and embarked amphibious forces. Along with the capacity to host an amphibious force command-and-control facility, the vessel has a stern dock able to carry three landing craft mechanised (LCM), and can also embark three landing craft vehicle and personnel (LCVP) vessels together with one landing craft personnel (LCP) and two rigid hull inflatable boats (RHIBs).

The three 19.5 m LCMs, based on the Italian Navy's LCMs designed by Cantiere Navale Vittoria and able to carry a 30-tonne load, are being built by Algeria's ECRN (Enterprise de Construction et Reparation Navales) near Mers-El-Kebir. IHS Jane's understands that the first LCM began acceptance trials in December.

Up to 15 armoured vehicles can be carried in the hangar space, which can be accessed by a starboard-side folding ramp and a 30-tonne elevator amidships. Soft-skinned vehicles and containers can be accommodated on a flight deck that also has two helicopter landing spots (the aft spot able to accommodate an AgustaWestland AW101 aircraft). The ship has space for an extended hospital facility, including a surgery and up to 60 beds.

The combat system is based on the Athena-C combat management system (CMS) supplied by Selex ES. Elettronica has provided the electronic warfare fit, while OTO Melara has supplied countermeasures launchers. Armament includes a single OTO Melara 76/62 Super Rapid gun, two 25 mm guns, and an eight-cell Sylver A50 vertical launcher hosting Aster 15 surface-to-air missiles.

The Selex ES MFRA active array radar provides situational awareness and missile fire control. A SIR phased-array IFF is also fitted, together with a gun fire-control system and navigation/helicopter control radars.

The Seastema (a Fincantieri/ABB joint venture) integrated platform management system manages the vessel's hull, mechanical, and electrical systems, including the ship's electrical supply, bow thrusters, emergency diesel generators, and propulsion plant. The latter is based around two 6,000 kW-rated Wärtsila 12V32 diesel engines, driving two controllable-pitch propellers via Siemens gearboxes to achieve a 20 kt maximum speed.

 

http://www.janes.com/article/32850/algerian-amphibious-ship-enters-the-water

Modifié le 24 janvier 2014 par FARSOLDIER

[Oshkosh]

31/01/2014

Igor Ponomarev the Vice President of "United Construction Corporation" (USC) pointed negotiations with Algeria for the construction of two diesel submarines. "

Negotiations are pending on price parameters

. I think there is a perspective", -

he

said.

 

http://www.rbc.ru/rbcfreenews/20140131130012.shtml

Modifié le 31 janvier 2014 par Oshkosh

[Oshkosh]

 Le budget de défense Algérien pour l'année 2014,sera de 12,45 milliards de dollars...

 

 

 

ROME — Algeria’s defense spending spree shows no sign of abating as the North African country gets set for a September delivery of a new amphibious ship from Italy. Algeria is also reportedly preparing to receive three Chinese frigates in 2015 as well as buying a new Italian minesweeper.

In January, Italian shipyard Fincantieri launched the 8,800-ton, 143-meter-long landing platform dock (LPD) Kalaat Beni-Abbes at its Riva Trigosa yard, with handover to the Algerian Navy scheduled for September at the Navy’s Taranto base in southern Italy.

Based on the design of the Italian LPD San Giusto, the ship has been built by a joint venture of Fincantieri and Italy’s Finmeccanica.

The Algerian purchase is part of growing defense expenditures, which one analyst put at US $10.3 billion in 2013. “That’s up 14 percent year on year to about five percent of [gross domestic product],” said Francesco Tosato, a military analyst at the Italian Centro Studi Internazionali.

“About $1.5 to $2 billion of that goes on procurement since the total budget also covers wages for 350,000 personnel,” he added.

In addition to the LPD buy, Algeria is understood to be acquiring a minesweeper built by Italian firm Intermarine, with training likely to be handled by the Italian Navy. Intermarine, which declined to comment about the buy, has built minesweepers for Finland, Thailand, the US, Italy and Australia.

A UK-based analyst said Algeria will meanwhile take delivery of three new frigates from China in 2015. “They have been built at the same yard as the F22 vessels sold by China to Pakistan and could be similar or slightly smaller,” said Christian Le Miere, a senior fellow for naval forces and maritime security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

The deals follow Algeria’s purchase of two Meko A-200 frigates from Germany.

While buying the LPD from Fincantieri, Algeria has also dispatched sailors for training by the Italian Navy, with 134 sailors arriving at the Taranto base in September and 30 more in January.

The Algerians will then move up to Fincantieri’s Muggiano yard, where the LPD is being fitted out, and where the Navy has another training center, an Italian Navy source said. By the end of May, the sailors will be onboard the vessel, he added. The Italian Navy, said the source, is working under a subcontract to the Fincantieri-Finmeccanica joint venture.

The vessel features an Italian-built EMPAR radar and is fit to carry the Italian AW101 helicopters Algeria has purchased separately. Some features derive from Fincantieri’s experience in the cruise ship business, including LED lights to save power.

A handover to the Algerian Navy will occur in September, although the ship will not immediately leave Italy, sailing south to Taranto at the end of 2014 for operational sea training and live-fire training of the ship’s 76mm gun.

An Algerian crew will work on a bridge and combat center simulator at Taranto before the ship sails to Algeria in the first half of 2015.

The source said the program was the most ambitious training program the Italian Navy had ever set up. “Training while the ship is built is an innovative, time-saving solution,” he said.

“These new procurement deals are part of a bid to reduce Algeria’s dependence on Russia for naval procurement,” Tosato said. “That said, having ships in service from Russia, Germany, Italy and China does raise questions about interoperability.”

Algeria is meanwhile due to receive two Russian-built Tigr corvettes, one this year and one in 2015, he said, and two Russian-improved Kilo 636 submarines in 2016-17 to add to the four it has.

Le Miere said he wondered if Algeria really needs a landing platform dock. “It is a large vessel, what is it for and will they need it?” he said. “It is of questionable value for a military focusing on internal counterinsurgency.”

Local Islamic militants, active in the country’s vast southern regions, have been increasing their attacks, notably with the attack on a gas facility near In Amenas in January 2013, during which hundreds of hostages were taken. As Algerian special forces raided the facility, at least 39 hostages were killed.

“Algeria turned down the [offer] of US and French help because accepting it would have been damaging to the reputation of the country’s armed forces, both regionally and internally,” said Marco Di Liddo, a second analyst from Centro Studi Internazionali.

To serve its land operations, Algeria has bought 1,200 Fuchs 2 armored vehicles from Germany, a deal that focuses on another Algerian requirement — technology transfer and job creation, Tosato said.

“The plant opened in Algeria to build these vehicles will also build Mercedes trucks,” he said.

But military spending is soaring for another reason, Di Liddo said. “Military spending nourishes the power of the armed forces at a time when they are in competition with the civilian government for influence and as the country’s president is seeking to strengthen politics at the Army’s expense,” he said.

“As long as it has gas revenue, a rivalry with Morocco, instability in neighboring Tunisia and Libya, militants in the south, the need to update an Army still equipped with Soviet-era equipment and the need to create jobs, defense spending in Algeria will continue to rise,” Tosato said. ■

 

http://www.defensenews.com/article/20140131/DEFREG04/301310036/Algeria-Prepares-Receive-LPD-Amid-Defense-Spending-Boost

Modifié le 1 février 2014 par Oshkosh

[Oshkosh]

 

The three 19.5 m LCMs, based on the Italian Navy's LCMs designed by Cantiere Navale Vittoria and able to carry a 30-tonne load, are being built by Algeria's ECRN (Enterprise de Construction

et

Reparation Navales) near Mers-El-Kebir. IHS Jane's understands that the first

LCM

began acceptance trials in December.

http://www.janes.com/article/32850/algerian-amphibious-ship-enters-the-water

 

Modifié le 1 février 2014 par Oshkosh

[khairou]

Bonjour,

 

Maritime Partner AS et le ministère de la Défense en Algérie ont signé un contrat pour la construction et la fourniture de 12 unités de Alusafe 2000 sauvetage à grande vitesse et des navires de patrouille, y compris un programme de formation complet. Les quatre premiers navires seront construits par le Partenaire Maritime AS à Aalesund. Les huit navires suivants seront construits dans le cadre de partenariat à Annaba en Algérie.

 

http://www.maritime-partner.com/mp/News/13-06-20/Record_breaking_contract.aspx

 

Alusafe 2000

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYRQWA7-UYI

 

Modifié le 3 février 2014 par khairou

[khairou]

Nouvelle photo du Kalaat beni abbes

 

Modifié le 4 février 2014 par khairou

[Oshkosh]

Kilo 877EKM :

 

[numidiadz]

http://secret-difa3.blogspot.com/2014/02/de-lelectronique-danoise-pour-les.html

[Oshkosh]

[actyon]

Tres belle image merci pour le partage =D

[numidiadz]

Russia and Algeria plan in the first half of this year to sign a contract for the construction of two diesel-electric submarines (SSK) Project 636 "Varshavyanka", told Itar-Tass source in the Russian defense industry.

http://armstass.su/?page=article&aid=125820&cid=25

[Algerino]

Un premier de 6 Wildcats déjà en production

http://secret-difa3.blogspot.fr/2014/03/les-helicopteres-wildcats-en-cours-de.html

[Kiriyama]

Oui, belle image, avec les quatre sous-marins amarrés à quai. C'est quoi le bateau gris foncé à gauche et celui au premier plan ? ^_^

[actyon]

C'est un remorqueur haute mer

[actyon]

 

Une autre image de l'un des remorqueurs

Modifié le 9 mars 2014 par actyon

[Kiriyama]

Merci ! :)

[actyon]

Classe Djebel Chenoua [Corvettes de Fabrication Nationale]

[actyon]

La Frégate avec aisance dans son évolution dans les eaux troublées et difficiles du Cap de Bon Espérance en Afrique du Sud :

[actyon]

Le Soummam [937] Au port d'Odessa en Ukraine

 

Modifié le 10 mars 2014 par actyon

[actyon]

Voici la frégate qui est en construction par les Chinois, c'est une dérivée de la Frégate "Type A-054 JiangKai II",

 

photos du navire (dont la version Défense Anti-aérienne) :

 

une autre avec l'Abri-Hangar pour l'hélicoptère :

 

amarrée au quai, on voit plus de détails :



une dernière, ou on voit clairement les 32 cellules VL (Vertical Launch) abritant les Missiles Mer-Air :



La silhouette de la Frégate

[actyon]

[Algerino]

Les navires avitailleurs 

 

[actyon]

Remorqueur haut mer

[actyon]

02 nouvelles vedettes pour la marine Algérienne