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Brand new Type 45 destroyer HMS Duncan begins sea trials off Scotland.
Duncan, the Royal Navy’s sixth and final powerful new Type 45 Destroyer, has put to sea for the first time (August 31) for trials where a blend of Royal Navy, Ministry of Defence and BAE Systems personnel will put her through her paces.
Following her departure from BAE System’s Scotstoun shipyard in Glasgow, Duncan quickly set about testing her speed and manoeuvrability, which will see the 7500-tonne destroyer taken to over 30 knots and turning very tight figure-of-eights.
Duncan will also spend four weeks at sea trialling her power and propulsion systems as well as her highly capable weapons systems. A second period of sea trials, set to take place later in the year, will test Duncan’s combat systems and sensors in order to ensure she joins the other Type 45s already commissioned and based in Portsmouth, in pristine condition next year.
Captain Henry Duffy, Captain Surface Ships, said:, This is a significant milestone in Duncan's programme. We wish her every success as we look forward to welcoming her to join the rest of her sister ships into the Portsmouth Flotilla next year.”
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the groyne sea defences are a natural draw for long exposure work when you live near the coast.
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Estonian Soldiers during their final mission readiness exercise in the vicinity of ̃ before deploying to Iraq as part of ESTGUARD-4, which is part of the NATO Iraq Mission.
Photos: Estonian Defence Force
On the north side of Cramond Island are these WWII searchlight buildings. Dalgety Bay is directly across the Forth.
www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/edinburgh/cramondisland/in...
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Lynx Spider in offensive threatening stance vs. defensive trying-to-hide stance.
When they want to become offensive, they raise their forelegs and hold their leaf! (ground). However, on the other hand, if they want to get defensive, they pull all legs as close as possible to their bodies and try to become invisible by banking on their color-based camouflage!
The left offensive stance is displayed by male and right defensive stance is displayed by female.
The pedipalps (similar to their arm) of males are very bulky and dark in color, which is the black plough/spade like structure in front of its face; whereas the same is missing in the females, which is replaced with thin camouflaged pedipalps.
River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
These images were taken during the 3rd week of December, 2016.
On occasional check on works on-going close to the centre of Bray itself, in and around the Bridge.
This is a section of the flood protection scheme that I haven't covered in any great detail. Inconvenient for me to access, and others cover it much better.
Check out 'Turgidson'.
Looking upriver, towards the People's Park, standing on the 'Fran O'Toole Bridge' with the new boardwalk under construction.
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Bray gets a riverside boardwalk as part of the final element of the River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
The boardwalk - similar to the one along the River Liffey in Dublin city centre - will be incorporated into the wall beside the Fran O Toole Bridge.
It will connect Castle Street to the Peoples Park and will be a welcome added amenity for Bray.
The boardwalk forms part of the final large works package for the River Dargle Flood Defence Scheme.
This part of the scheme runs from the People's Park to the Railway Bridge on the Little Bray side of the river.
The works consist of curved sheet piled walls approaching the railway bridge which will be faced with masonry and the construction of footpaths in this area.
There will also be a stone faced sheet pile wall along the Lower Dargle Road from beside the Fran O'Toole Bridge to the Peoples Park.
The work is very timely as part of the existing inner wall alongside the Lower Dargle Road was severely undermined and collapsed during a storm which occurred just before Christmas.
When the project is completed, Bray will be protected from a one-in-one-hundred year storm, including all the floods of the sort that would have ravaged the town in the 20th century, and a one-in-200 year tidal event.
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These images shows the skeleton of the structure 'hanging' from the upgraded stone-clad wall, adjacent to Upper Dargle Road.
This part of the scheme runs from the People's Park to the Railway Bridge on the Little Bray side of the river.
On this particular day, the high water mark is actually caused by the high sea tide, pushing upriver from the Bray harbour estuary. This is not the result of waters running down-river from the nearby mountains. Hence the calm still appearance.
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A four-arch Bray Bridge was constructed in 1666, but this collapsed in 1741 and was replaced by a new bridge within the same year.
The 1741 bridge was replaced in 1856 by a new three-arch bridge designed by Mr Henry Brett.
The bridge was built by David Edge, and it bore his name.
The bridge was renamed on 5th July 2015 in honour of Bray resident Fran O'Toole, who was the lead singer with the Miami showband.
Three members of the showband were killed outside Newry in 1976, including Fran O'Toole.
The Railway Bridge downstream was built in 1853, a year prior to the opening of the railway between Dublin and Bray.
The railway company had to narrow the channel of the river and build a small shipping dock.
Between Bray Bridge and the Railway Bridge there was a wooden footbridge linking Ravenswell Road and the Seapoint Road, this bridge was built at the time of the railway coming to Bray.
It closed in 1870 and was removed shortly afterwards.
"The Little Book of Bray and Enniskerry" by Brian White.
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Estonian Defence Force Soldiers live-fire training while serving in Mali with BKN-10 as part of the French led Operation Barkhane.
Photos: n-ltn Liis Vaksmann
The Home Guard ( initially Local Defence Volunteers or LDV ) was a citizen militia supporting the British Army during the Second World War, the Home Guard had 1.5 million local volunteers otherwise ineligible for military service, such as those who were too young or too old to join regular armed services. In the event of a German invasion they were also tasked to defend key communication points and train stations in rear areas against possible capture by paratroops
( thanks to Jeff Wharton for re enactor photo and geheugen.delpher.nl for background photo )
The Dynamic Defence Display, a combined land, air and sea performance by the Singapore Armed Forces during the National Day Parade 2017 Preview 2
The members of 106 Recruit Platoon have completed their toughest week of training thus far following an intensive exercise in the Glen of Imaal. The platoon exercised in conventional military operations involving long range patrols, patrol harbours, fighting patrols and a platoon in defence scenario. This was a physically and mentally demanding week for the recruits and is another step towards the successful completion of the their basic military training.
Photos:DFTC
As part of Defence Expo 2018 Exhibition at Thiruvidanthai, an Airshow took place on 14042018. Photos taken are presented here
The Ministry of Defence badge on a computer chip.
Britain will build a dedicated capability to counter-attack in cyberspace and, if necessary, to strike in cyberspace.
As part of MOD’s full-spectrum military capability, the Defence Secretary, Philip Hammond, has announced that the department is set to recruit hundreds of computer experts as cyber reservists to help defend the UK’s national security, working at the cutting-edge of the nation’s cyber defences.
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St. Bees. Railtrack completely rebuilt the sea defences at Sea Mill over the winter of 1996/97. Here the completed works can be seen on 12 August 1997 as a flask train behind 37244 passes over it. 4,400 precast blocks make up the sea wall which itself has additional protection of 70,000 tonnes of limestone rock armour.
Felixstowe Sea Defences taken on an increasingly misty day just before Christmas. Lee Big Stopper to increase exposure time to 254 secs.
Turning hard, 'Stone 44' aka Israeli Defence Force F-15C Eagle '583' pulls huge tip vortices whilst playing catch-up after departing Waddington during Cobra Warrior 2019
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Call-sign info courtesy of FC
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