Marinha da Dinamarca

[Pedro Gilberto]

Pra quem é fanzão deste navio, saiu um link no Naval-technology sobre esse excelente belonave:

http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/absalon/
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/absalon/specs.html



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[P44]

Pra quem é fanzão deste navio, saiu um link no Naval-technology sobre esse excelente belonave:

http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/absalon/
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/absalon/specs.html



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se o Sintra não tivesse sido envenenado com Polónio já estava a ter um orgasmo

[Sintra]

Pra quem é fanzão deste navio, saiu um link no Naval-technology sobre esse excelente belonave:

http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/absalon/
http://www.naval-technology.com/projects/absalon/specs.html



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se o Sintra não tivesse sido envenenado com Polónio já estava a ter um orgasmo

Quem acabou por beber o Polônio foi o Cabeça, eu fiquei com o Leitão à Bairrada. Estranhamente parece que não o afectou por ai além...
E sim, adorei a página.

[cabeça de martelo]

O quê, fala mais alto, as minha orelhas cairam e está tudo muito enublado...

[P44]

do warships1

parece que os dinamarqueses afinal vão "redesignar" de FRAGATAS os modestos navios patrulha que irão ser construidos brevemente

Subject: New danish patrol frigates (Update *Link to PDF added*)
Posted By: Hvidtfeldt Registered Member

Posted At: 7/14/07 18:46
Reply
The Royal Danish Navy has finally decided that the 3 new 'Patrol ships' will be designated as frigates.

This PDF (in danish)
http://forsvaret.dk/NR/rdonlyres/CFA39E ... 6/48265/Flådensfregatter.pdf
contains two interesting images (Design has not yet been finalized).
Both pictures show a large dome on each side of the mast, I wonder for what purpose (communication ? EW ? Radar ?)

[P44]

Radar SMART-S Mk2 instalado na Absalon


http://www.navalhistory.dk/Danish/Soeva ... Profil.htm

[P44]

album de fotos das ABSALON

(dedicado ao Sintra para ele se roer mais um bocadinho)

http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v252/ ... t/Danex07/

antiga fragata preservada...

[Rui Elias Maltez]

Um bom exemplo, que infelizmente em Portugal não é seguido.

[P44]

no comments....

[JLRC]

A F 352 é a fragata Peder Skram que entrou ao serviço em 1964, colocada em reserva em 1988 e abatida em 1990.

[P44]

HDMS Absalon prepares for operational deployment

The Royal Danish Navy's (RDN's) first Absalon-class flexible combat support ship, HDMS Absalon, is due to be declared fully operational in April 2008, following the scheduled test firing of its Evolved SeaSparrow Missile between 16-18 April off the coast of Scotland.

The declaration will come ahead of Absalon's first planned deployment, subject to Danish political approval, which will be to host the Joint Task Force of NATO's Combined Task Force 150 off the Horn of Africa from August 2008: a mission that focuses on anti-terrorism and anti-piracy in the region.

Currently, the ship is undergoing sea trials in the Danish littoral area of Kattegat. Beginning on 17 August the ship has so far passed a succession of qualification and integration trials.

Absalon's SMART-S Mk 2 medium-to-long-range 3D volume search solid-state radar is now operational after passing its sea acceptance tests (SATs). The SATs saw the radar perform in both operating modes - the long-range surveillance mode and the shorter-range high-update-rate defence mode - to successfully track targets including a Norwegian fast attack craft, a Polish submarine, a German Tornado strike aircraft, Lear jets, Danish and UK Lynx helicopters, Danish F-16 fighter aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles operated by the Danish armed forces. The radar is already being used operationally.


http://www.janes.com/news/defence/jdw/j ... _1_n.shtml

[Tigershark]

HDMS Absalon prepares for operational deployment

The Royal Danish Navy's (RDN's) first Absalon-class flexible combat support ship, HDMS Absalon, is due to be declared fully operational in April 2008, following the scheduled test firing of its Evolved SeaSparrow Missile between 16-18 April off the coast of Scotland.

The declaration will come ahead of Absalon's first planned deployment, subject to Danish political approval, which will be to host the Joint Task Force of NATO's Combined Task Force 150 off the Horn of Africa from August 2008: a mission that focuses on anti-terrorism and anti-piracy in the region.

Currently, the ship is undergoing sea trials in the Danish littoral area of Kattegat. Beginning on 17 August the ship has so far passed a succession of qualification and integration trials.

Absalon's SMART-S Mk 2 medium-to-long-range 3D volume search solid-state radar is now operational after passing its sea acceptance tests (SATs). The SATs saw the radar perform in both operating modes - the long-range surveillance mode and the shorter-range high-update-rate defence mode - to successfully track targets including a Norwegian fast attack craft, a Polish submarine, a German Tornado strike aircraft, Lear jets, Danish and UK Lynx helicopters, Danish F-16 fighter aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles operated by the Danish armed forces. The radar is already being used operationally.


http://www.janes.com/news/defence/jdw/j ... _1_n.shtml

Uma maravilha sem dúvida estas Absalon!Não ficaria triste de vê-las por aqui!

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Successful Firing of Oerlikon Millennium During Trials of the Royal Danish Navy's First Absalon-Class Flexible Combat Support Ship, HDMS Absalon


(Source: Rheinmetall Defence; issued Dec. 6, 2007)



Oerlikon Millennium 35 mm naval gun systems successfully engaged surface and air targets during live-fire trials aboard HDMS Absalon, the Royal Danish Navy's first Absalon-class flexible combat support ship. The trials took place during the first and third weeks of November.

The test firings formed part of sea trials and Sea Acceptance Tests (SAT) off the Danish coast. Practice ammunition and Oerlikon Ahead ammunition – like the guns, both made by Rheinmetall subsidiary Oerlikon Contraves – were used to engage both air and surface targets. Danish personnel operated the guns, having already received operation and maintenance training during summer 2007. According to DALO (Danish Defence Acquisition and Logistics Organization), the firings with the two Oerlikon Millennium guns were successful and its SAT was completed during the third November week.

The HDMS Absalon is equipped with two Millennium guns, one forward and one aft. The Royal Danish Navy is the launch customer for series production of the Oerlikon Millennium naval gun system, having ordered six guns in 2004 with an option for a further four. Production for further customers is also underway. Absalon-class final SAT for the Millennium guns and the 127 mm gun is planned for week 13 or 14 in 2008.

The Royal Danish Navy decided to equip its Absalon-class ships and patrol vessels with Millennium because of Oerlikon's state-of-the-art Ahead ammunition and revolver gun technology, both of which assure an outstanding multi-mission capability. The Oerlikon Ahead principle – a proprietary development of Oerlikon Contraves – significantly increases the probability of hits, aided by a high rate of fire. The Millennium can fire 1,000 rounds per minute, with each round containing 152 tungsten sub-projectiles. This advanced ammunition, combined with sustained firepower and high precision, enables numerous engagements at extended ranges before reloading.

Taken together, these make Oerlikon Millennium ideal for the following roles:

-- air defence against missiles at distances three to four times greater than conventional close-in weapon systems (CIWS);
-- anti-surface warfare, fulfilling US Navy requirements against Fast Incoming Attack Crafts (FIAC) threats;
-- naval gunfire support: the effect of Oerlikon Ahead ammunition on infantry and lightly armoured targets enable highly effective suppression of enemy fire during operations to extract friendly personnel.

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[P44]

Falta de Efectivos Leva Marinha Dinamarquesa a operar apenas 1 Corveta

Only one operational corvette:
The RDN can no longer maintain the force set in the Defense Agreement

RDN personnel shortage now so acute, that the target headcount set in the current Defense Agreement (the military budget approved by the Danish parliament) can no longer be achieved.


The corvette PETER TORDENSKIOLD, here seen entering Copenhagen in connection with DANEX 07, will from next year be the RDN’s only operational corvette.
(Photo: Johnny E. Balsved)


continua...

[P44]

Flexible friends: flexible support ships

In the mid-1990s, a group of forward-thinking Danish naval officers began to consider how the Royal Danish Navy (RDN) should be reshaped and recapitalised to meet the needs of the post-Cold War world.

A fundamental change in roles and missions - a move towards crisis management and peace support operations far away from home - aligned with the pressing need to replace significant numbers of ageing ships, shaped plans for a new-look surface fleet.

In formulating this fleet renewal plan, the Danish naval staff sought to balance the need for new assets better equipped to contribute to NATO Reaction Forces against the realities of a defence budget that would not allow for anything like one-for-one replacement of existing units.

Put simply, a larger number of smaller units had to make way for a smaller number of larger but much more capable multi-mission platforms. In this way the concept of the Flexible Support Ship was born.

Fast forward to 15 September 2008. At a changeover ceremony in Bahrain, Danish Commodore Per Bigum Christensen assumed command of Combined Task Force 150 (CTF 150), the coalition maritime security operation in the Gulf of Aden, Gulf of Oman, the Arabian Sea, Red Sea and the Indian Ocean.

It was the first time that Denmark had taken command of a multinational naval force in this region, with HDMS Absalon, the first of the RDN's two Flexible Support Ships and the physical embodiment of Denmark's future navy vision, taking up the role of flagship.

http://www.janes.com/news/defence/naval ... _1_n.shtml