Naval Analyses

24/06/2025

The Indian Navy’s giant diving support vessel, Nistar (A16), the lead ship in a series of two, is currently undergoing sea trials and is slated for delivery this year. These DSVs (Diving Support Vessels) are the first of their kind, indigenously designed and built by Hindustan Shipyard Limited (HSL) for the Indian Navy. Each vessel measures 118.4 metres in length, spans 22.8 metres at its widest point, and has a displacement of 9,350 tons.

These ships will be able to perform carry out submarine rescue, deep sea diving operations along with search and rescue missions, sustained patrolling and helicopter operations at the sea. Diving vessel carried by the ships include two Observation-class Remotely Operated Vehicles (OROVs) and two Deep Submergence Rescue Vehicles (DSRVs).

20/06/2025

India has commissioned INS Arnala, the first in its class of 16 (!) Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow Water Craft (ASW-SWC) corvettes, distinguished by its unique design and specialized armament configuration. The 78-meter ASW-SWC vessels are the biggest vessels of the to be powered by water-jet propulsion.

18/06/2025

Heavily upgraded Turkish Navy Barbaros-class (MEKO 200TN Track II-A/B) frigate featuring twelve (12) anti-ship missiles, formidable anti-aircraft and anti-missile defenses, and advanced electronic systems. Details in my new article at https://www.navalanalyses.com

18/06/2025

Barbaros-Class Frigates Enter "Beast Mode" with Major MLU: A detailed and thorough examination of the Turkish Navy Barbaros-class (MEKO 200TN Track II-A/B) frigates and their extensive (and impressive) MLU at the link below. Enjoy!

Written by D-Mitch TCG Orucreis frigate after MLU during Exercise Dynamic Mariner / Flotex 25. Photo by Anadolu Agency. Today, the Turkish T...

10/06/2025

Taken in September 1903, shows sailors of the Royal Navy leaving their barrack Hulks for their new stone built barracks on land at Queen Street, Portsmouth. About 4,000 men moved from the two old men of war, HMS Duke of Wellington & HMS Marlborough, both massive 131-gun triple decker ships of the line in their heyday. The Duke of Wellington & Marlborough both became receiving ships in the 1890s acting as floating barracks for sailors awaiting training or posting. Source: Royal Navy

09/06/2025

Wicher Class (Arrowhead 140PL/Miecznik project) Frigate of the Polish Navy. More graphs will follow soon at

Written by D-Mitch In this post, I include some of the infographics I made and published on social media, about new surface combatants ...

06/06/2025

Hellenic Navy's General Support Ship - Special Operations Ship Perseus (A-377) during her first sea trials.

04/06/2025

Lorient 🇫🇷. Full of FDI frigates!🤩
At least 9 ships will be built for France and Greece. Photo by Naval Group

04/06/2025

For my Greek friends: here's my interview on Greek radio station 90.1, where I talk about the Hellenic Navy’s programs.
Η συνέντευξη μου στην εκπομπή "Εμείς οι Έλληνες" για τα προγράμματα του ΠΝ με μερικές ειδησούλες! 😎

Στην συζήτησή μας (03-04-2025) ο αναλυτής ναυτικών συστημάτων, υπεύθυνος του αμυντικού ιστότοπου navalanalyses.com σε μία εφ όλης της ύλης ανάλυση για το εξο...

02/06/2025

"We're building up to a dozen new attack submarines as part of the AUKUS programme, in response to rapidly increasing threats. This builds on a £15 billion investment in our sovereign nuclear warhead programme and will support 30,000 highly skilled jobs across the UK"

The UK will build up to a dozen new attack submarines to keep Britain safe.

30/05/2025

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/05/turkish-navy-launches-3rd-reis-class-aip-submarine-tcg-muratreis/

On May 29, 2025, the Turkish MoD announced that the third submarine of the Reis-class project was launched at Gölcük Naval Shipyard.

30/05/2025

https://www.navalnews.com/naval-news/2025/05/naval-group-launches-hs-formion-third-greek-fdi/

Naval Group’s surface vessels shipyard located in Lorient in western France has launched the third FDI frigate ‘HS Formion’ meant for the Hellenic Navy on May 28th, 2025, and has installed her PSIM mast the next day. This is the fourth FDI-type frigate launched since 2022. Eight months after t...