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Navy needs volunteer gunners for museum piece

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Does the thought of being responsible for firing a more than 130-year-old cannon appeal? If the answer is yes and you are serving...

New Master-At-Arms for the Navy

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After 40 years in uniform, SA Navy Master-At-Arms, Senior Chief Warrant Officer Pragasen Moodley retired, handing over the highest position a Non-Commissioned...

CNavy not ruling out future Navy Festivals

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SA Navy Chief, Vice Admiral Mosiwa Hlongwane, maintains the cancellation of this year's Navy Festival is not an indicator the event will...

What next for the local design capacity on Projects Biro and...

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Armscor recently confirmed that it has awarded Project Hotel, for a new hydrographic survey ship for the SA Navy, to Durban-based Southern...

Southern African Shipyards confirmed as main contractor for Project Hotel

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Durban-based Southern African Shipyards (SAS) is the main contractor for Project Hotel to supply the SA Navy with a new hydrographic vessel...

Maintenance delays and operational defects impact on Navy sea time

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The SA Navy logged 67% of the twelve thousand sea hours allocated to the maritime service of the SA National Defence Force...

Next class of naval officers graduate from the SA Naval College

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The first formative steps of a naval career were successfully completed last week when 81 midshipmen graduated from the SA Naval College. By...

Rigging sought to remove port engines from two Valour Class frigates

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SAS Mendi, the second Valour Class frigate to be taken into service by the SA Navy, is currently berthed in Simon's town...

Naval Station Port Elizabeth hosts Divex 2017

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The SA Navy has just completed its annual diving exercise in Port Elizabeth where more than 60 SAN clearance divers conducted exhaustive...

Armscor misses the boat on Project Hotel

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In its latest annual report, for the financial year ending 31 March 2017, Armscor states it aimed at arriving at a contracting...

New Navy hydrographic vessel represents a R1.8 billion investment – Zuma

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The Commander-in-Chief of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF), President Jacob Zuma, has confirmed the investment detail of at least one of...

Project Hotel still stalled in negotiations

Seven months ago Southern African Shipyards was named the preferred bidder to provide a new hydrographic platform for the SA Navy and...

Novel Navy method to introduce young people to the maritime service

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Each year the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) advertises it military skills development (MSD) programme and each year the force's human resources...

Request for Offer for SA Navy offshore patrol vessels withdrawn

The SA Navy's offshore patrol capabilities will be firmly on the bridges of its Valour Class frigates, Heroine Class submarines, the supply...

Op Phakisa’s blue economy component needs new Navy platforms to provide...

With a handful of exceptions the blue economy component of government's Operation Phakisa appears becalmed. The Department of Public Works has embarked on...

Jamieson is new SA Navy deputy chief

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The man who is the new deputy chief of South Africa's maritime service is a dyed-in-the-wool navy combat sailor who served on...

SAN Hydrographer earns prestigious post in IHO

Captain (SAN) Abri Kampfer, the SA navy's hydrographer, has been named first director of the International Hydrographic Organisation (IHO). The four ringer will...

Armscor still not confirming bidders for projects Biro and Hotel

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In February this year, Armscor announced two "preferred bidders" for what will be the second largest acquisition of defence equipment in democratic...

Crystal ball gazing at the SA Navy’s new capabilities

In February Armscor made public the names of preferred bidders for new naval platforms, including a hydrographic vessel. Durban-based SA Shipyards was announced...

Copper and cable thieves target Silvermine for the second time this...

Silvermine, the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) high-tech communications facility, has again been targeted by thieves who took antennas and copper cable,...

Navy dead not included in 2017 National Orders

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The three SA Navy members who died in a rescue attempt at Naval Base Durban in February will be honoured with posthumous...

SA Navy setting the standard for foreign relations

When it comes to foreign relations, the maritime arm of the SA National Defence Force (SANDF) can justifiably be called the leader...

Armscor keeping mum on Project Hotel

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Armscor is keeping its cards close to the chest as regards a new hydrographic vessel for the SA Navy under Project Hotel...

Navy heroes who died attempting to save lives in Durban to...

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The three SA Navy members who died attempting to rescue workers from a gas-filled pit at Naval Base Durban last month will...

Navy sees Projects Biro and Hotel being beyond the horizon

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Chief of the SA Navy Vice Admiral Mosuwa Hlongwane says the end goal of Projects Hotel and Biro, to acquire new inshore...

Navy Festival in Simon’s Town this weekend

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This weekend (Match 17 to 19) sees the SA Navy open its doors as well as its bulkheads and hatches to...

Denel, tkMS sign MOU to collaborate on submarine and frigate upgrades

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As Denel gets ready to revive the Naval Dockyard facilities in Simonstown, the company is collaborating with thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (tkMS) for joint support...

Denel, tkMS sign MOU to collaborate on submarine and frigate upgrades

Denel is collaborating with thyssenkrupp Marine Systems for the joint support of the SA Navy frigates and submarines.As Denel gets ready to revive the...

Have mechanical problems cut short Drakensberg’s Op Copper deployment?

The SA Navy's supply and replenishment vessel, SAS Drakensberg (A301), is in harbour in Pemba, Mozambique and unable to proceed with Operation...

Negotiations underway to finalise build of SA Navy’s new hydrographic vessel

As it enters the final negotiating stage for one part of South Africa's second largest military equipment acquisition since democracy, Armscor is...

Amatola readies for war games with Germany

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As SAS Amatola, the South African Navy (SAN) frigate presently in the UK and taking part in today's commemorations of the 100th...

Damen and SA Shipyards in the lead to build new Navy...

Armscor has announced the preferred bidders to supply the SA Navy with seven new hulls more than two years after tenders were...

Amatola working her way to England and the Mendi centenary commemoration

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Since leaving her home port of Simon's Town in mid-January, the SA Navy Valour Class frigate SAS Amatola (F145) en route to...

Shortage of air and naval assets turns Op Copper into a...

The tri-nation Southern African Development Community (SADC) counter-piracy initiative in the Mozambique Channel – Operation Copper – has become largely a radio...

Antennas and copper cable stolen from Silvermine – again

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The SA Navy has again had to revert to using communication links in Durban and aboard a submarine to maintain contact with...

One accused of theft of arms and ammunition from Naval Base...

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The theft of arms and ammunition from Naval Base Simon's Town last July has had a court sequel with one of three...

Time for Armscor to move on new naval platform tenders

While the awarding of tenders to build seven new hulls for the SA Navy will not turn the fortunes of the South...

SA shipbuilding sector waiting for SA Navy tender finalisation to showcase...

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The South African shipbuilding industry is waiting with bated breath while Armscor completes "internal processes" on tenders for seven new vessels for...

Still no official word on new naval platforms

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Indications are the three revamped SA Navy strikecraft now doing duty as offshore patrol vessels (OPVs) are going to be in service...

Testing and boosting the Navy mine counter-measures squadron’s effectiveness

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That the SA Navy's mine counter-measures (MCM) remains an effective and efficient component of the maritime arm of the SA National Defence...

Upgrade ongoing at Naval Base Durban

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Naval Base Durban is among the 32 refurbishment projects on which the Department of Defence (DoD) spent close to half a billion...

Cybicom helps bolster C3 for SA Navy and CJOPS

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Cybicom Atlas Defence, a defence system integrator, has helped complete a project to improve the SA Navy's command, control and communications (C3)...

Spioenkop repairs underway with sea acceptance trials coming next month

SAS Spioenkop suffered "a major mechanical defect" while deployed in the Mozambique Channel in August, with indications that repairs are progressing and...

Navy to deploy frigate to Europe for commemoration, exercises

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The South African Navy (SA Navy) frigate SAS Amatola (F145) will be deploying to the United Kingdom and Germany in the new...

New Navy patrol vessels can wait, but the fleet must have...

One who is not overly distressed about the budget review process for new in- and offshore patrol vessels - with reservations -...

Why is the acquisition of in- and offshore patrol vessels on...

In his presentation to Parliament's Portfolio Committee on Defence and Military Veterans (PCDMV), Armscor chief executive Kevin Wakeford alluded to the much-awaited...

Cybicom puts Weapon Control Unit into SA Navy submarine simulator

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South African defence systems integrator Cybicom is upgrading the South African Navy's submarine simulator with a weapons control capability. Due to financial...

Projects Biro and Hotel on hold for budget review

Once again a lack of funding appears to be putting the brakes on the acquisition of much-needed military equipment with the SA...

Navy didn’t make its sea hours target for 2015/16

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The 2015/16 financial year saw the SA Navy spend 10 710 hours at sea – just over 10% less than the targeted...

Naval Base Simon’s Town theft has court sequel

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Two 18-year-olds and a 21-year-old appeared briefly in the Simon's Town Magistrate's Court on Monday in connection with the theft of arms...