International vessel collides with PHL Navy's BRP Tarlac

Published September 20, 2016 7:48am
Updated September 20, 2016 8:02am

A Liberian-registered merchant tanker on Monday night collided with a Philippine Navy vessel in Zamboanga City.

The Philippine Navy said merchant tanker Tasco, with Filipino and Ukranian crew, collided with BRP Tarlac while the naval ship was anchored 1,000 yards south of Ensign Majini Pier at Naval Station Romulo Espaldon at around 7:46 p.m.

Rear Admiral Jorge Amba, commander of Naval Forces Western Mindanao, said no one was hurt among the crew members, but the naval vessel sustained a minor damage in the right forward bulwark and side ramp.

Philippine Coast Guard Zamboanga Station commander, Lt. Junior Grade Jimmy Berbo, said guardsmen have been sent to the area to investigate.

The merchant tanker, meanwhile, was prevented from leaving pending the investigation.

The tanker was headed to Bintulo, Malaysia when the incident happened.

BRP Tarlac arrived is the first ever strategic sealift vessel of the Philippine Navy. It was recently acquired by the Philippine government as part of a P3.87-billion two-vessel contract entered into with Indonesian shipbuilder PT Pal Persero.

The naval vessel is leading the naval blockade against the Abu Sayyaf Group in Mindanao.

It serves as the command and control ship of the Philippine Navy in its operations against the bandits. —with a report from Cedric Castillo/DVM/ALG, GMA News

Sunday, 18 September 2016 17:20

DCNS Launched the First GOWIND 2500 Corvette for the Egyptian Navy
      
On September 17 2016, DCNS launched the very first GOWIND 2500 corvette for the Egyptian Navy. The float out took place at the Lorient naval shipyard one day after the launch of FREMM Bretagne for the French Navy. First steel cut of the Egyptian Navy corvette took place on April 16 2015. The delivery of the vessel is set for 2017 (less than four years after the signature of the contract).
      
Cairo signed in 2014 a EUR 1 Billion contract for the procurement of four GOWIND 25000 corvettes (plus two more as an option). The contract included the necessary technology transfer; given that DCNS’ partner Alexandria Shipyard would build three of the vessels in Egypt. Consturction of the second vessel started in April this year, in Egypt.
      
On September 17 2016, DCNS launched the very first GOWIND 2500 corvette for the Egyptian Navy. The float out took place at the Lorient naval shipyard one day after the launch of FREMM Bretagne for the French Navy. First steel cut of the Egyptian Navy corvette took place on April 16 2015. The delivery of the vessel is set for 2017 (less than four years after the signature of the contract).
      
On September 17 2016, DCNS launched the very first GOWIND 2500 corvette for the Egyptian Navy. The float out took place at the Lorient naval shipyard one day after the launch of FREMM Bretagne for the French Navy. First steel cut of the Egyptian Navy corvette took place on April 16 2015. The delivery of the vessel is set for 2017 (less than four years after the signature of the contract).
   
DCNS has already won a first GOWIND contract for the Royal Malaysian Navy, which covers the design and construction of six corvettes in Malaysia at the Boustead Naval Shipyard through technology transfer. These vessels will be classified as frigate locally as they are slightly larger than the base design.

Technical characteristics of the GOWIND 2500
According to DCNS, the GOWIND 2500 is a reference product on the worldwide corvette market. This vessel responds to the needs of navies to have access to a complete and multi-mission combat vessel for sovereignty and maritime protection operations and the fight against illicit trafficking. Ten corvettes have already been ordered by Malaysia (6 units) and Egypt (4 units).

The GOWIND 2500 is bristling with the very latest technological advances, developed and implemented by DCNS for naval defence. It incorporates the SETIS combat system, developed by DCNS for FREMM frigates and GOWIND corvettes, the “Panoramic Sensors and Intelligence Module (PSIM)” – an assembly bringing together the integrated mast with its various instruments as well as the Operational Centre and its associated technical rooms – and the high degree of integration, automation and conviviality of the DCNS systems.

Total length: 102 metres
Width: 16 metres
Displacement: 2,600 tonnes
Max. speed: 25 knots
Crew: 65 persons (helicopter detachment included)
Range: 3,700 nautical miles at 15 knots

Weapons: 8x Exocet MM40 Block 3 anti-ship missiles, 16x VL MICA surface to air missiles (both by MBDA), Torpedoes, a 76mm main gun (Oto Melara), 2x 20mm remote weapon stations and Sylena decoy launcher by Lacroix.

Sensors: Smart-S Mk2 radar, Kingklip hull mounted sonar, Captas 2 variable depth sonar, Vigile 200 Radar - ESM, Altesse Communication - ESM (all by Thales).

Singapore police like to eat nasi lemak?

The Egyptian Gowind production rate is fast. First steel cutting of the Egyptian Gowind was in April 2015 whereas the Malaysian Gowind first steel cutting was in December 2014. Maybe because of the Saudis money flow.

who is Tun Ibrahim Ismail? I do not recall the name from what I read about Force 136.

You should read his book ' Have you met mariam ?'....

i hear a rumor that we have underground military complex like pentagon but built inside a hill...is it true?

see if I can find. I wiki-ed him. Yeah sounds like he should be in Sejarah textbooks.

why Police easily get FAT

which his book got written about WWII ?

see if I can find. I wiki-ed him. Yeah sounds like he should be in Sejarah textbooks.

you mean like Mount Cheyenne.

underground office is hardly surprising, but probably not the kind that can withstand direct nuclear strike

'Have you met mariam' is more likes a memoir/biography, but 75% are about wwii...  there are a very detail xplanation about 'oatmeal-violin ops'... how he and 3 others only managed to land in malaya after 3rd attempt. They landed near perhentian island using RAF Catalina ...

ok good , will look for it, if can get digital version the best can read any time.

have you read The Jungle Is Neutral by Spencer Chapman? he was the guy in charge of Force 136 ops in Semenanjung

The Egyptian Gowind production rate is fast. First steel cutting of the Egyptian Gowind was in April 2015 whereas the Malaysian Gowind first steel cutting was in December 2014. Maybe because of the Saudis money flow.

have you read The Jungle Is Neutral by Spencer Chapman? he was the guy in charge of Force 136 ops in Semenanjung

more like reading a sci fi novel and bad photochop skills ...mehhhhh

Bizarrely, aside from some early sabotage action immediately after the Japanese occupation, Chapman spent nearly all of his time desperately hiding in the jungle, evading Japanese patrols until the end of the war.

Frankly most of the manpower resisting the Japanese were the chinese resistance groups, with 1 or 2 Force 136 advisors in each group. And there were plenty of cells in Singapore ofc which led to Changi Beach... but because of politics and the Communist insurgency this is de-emphasised in our history