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The Italian Navy’s Gaeta-elass mine countermeasures ship photo is retouched to show the configuration of the new 720-ton full-load Royal Australian Navy (RAN) version ordered in August 1994 from Australian Defence Industries. Work began in September on the first unit, which will be completed in 1998; the last of the six will be completed in 2002. The GEC-Marconi Type 2093 variable-depth minehunting sonar was selected over the U.S. AN/SQQ-32, primarily because of its superior shallow-water performance, says the RAN. The class will carry two Bol'ors- SUTEC Double Eagle mine-disposal sub- mersibles and will be able to tow the MiniDryad influence sweep. Transit propulsion will be by one Fiat-GMT diesel driving a controllable-pitch propeller; during countermeasures, they will be powered by three Riva Calzoni azimuthal thrusters.
Commissioned on 10 December 1994 at Pensacola, Florida, the guided-missile destroyer Alitscher (DDG-57) is the third ship of the Arleigli Burke class completed by Ingalls Shipbuilding, Pascagoula, Mississippi. While initial units had fullload displacements limited to 8,422 tons, DDG-72 through DDG-79 will displace 9,033 tons, indicating that void spaces intended for use as fuel tanks w ill be used for their original purpose, considerably extending the ships' unrefueled endurance. With DDG-79, the first Flight IIA ship, displacement w ill rise to 9,217 tons, as a result of the longer hull necessitated by the dual helicopter hangar and other improvements. The Burkes are nearing the displacement of the Ticonderoga (CG-47)- class Aegis cruisers, which carry 25% more missiles and have an additional missile control channel. The Burkes, however, have many survivability and performance features not found in the earlier ships.
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German government agencies operating non-naval patrol craft combined operations on 1 July 1994 as the Kustenwache (Coast Guard), although assets are owned and operated by the original owners. Here, the tiundesgrenzschutz-See (Sea Border Patrol) patrol boat Neuslrelitz, formerly the East German Navy Project 151 guided-missile patrol boat Sassnitz, is almost unrecognizable after a 1992-93 conversion. The boat traded three 5,400 brake horsepower Soviet M520 radial diesels for two German MTU diesels of 4,406 horsepower, dropping maximum speed from 37 to 25 knots.
A Bofors 40-mm cannon replaced Russian 76 -mm and 30-mm guns (and provision for sight SS-NX-25 antiship missiles).
Proceedings / February 1995