Topic: Dutch Armed Forces
Posted on 09/20/11 at 4:19pm by Matthew Kennedy . AAR (NYSE: AIR ) and the Boeing Company (NYSE: BA ) have signed a letter of intent to cooperate ...
In December of 2010, Shark Marine Technologies Inc. of St.Catharines, Ontario, delivered a quantity of their Navigator, Diver-Held Sonar and...
Press release from Marport Deep Sea Technologies: Ottawa, Ontario - May 9, 2011 - Marport Deep Sea Technologies Inc., a leading developer of sonar...
The Defence Ministry of the Netherlands says on April 14 the Dutch minehunter HNLMS Willemstad detected and detonated an extremely heavy German...
As noted before in Defence Watch, the Netherlands has been hit by a series of military cutbacks. The Ministry of Defence in the Netherlands has...
A Royal Netherlands Navy team is conducting tests on the interceptor model of the new, high-speed Fast Raiding Interceptor and Special Forces Craft...
Keelhauling was a type of naval punishment in the 17th and 18th century. Although officially only the Dutch Navy practiced it, under the name of kielhalen. The Dutch Navy did not ban keelhauling until 1853, when a more humane era of sailing ...
The Royal Dutch Army is the military force in the Netherlands. Soldiers can serve in the Netherlands Army as reservists or full-time soldiers. All soldiers must be at least 17 years old to begin military training and citizens of the Netherlands with ...
The word ?memory' was originally derived from ?cyclic memory', meaning that a Nickel Cadmium (NiCd) battery can remember how much discharge was required on previous discharges. Improvements in battery technology have virtually eliminated this phenomenon.
The problem with NiCd is not the ...
