European Command, a role she completed in Germany between 20.

Later in her career, Braun earned several flag officer roles, including deputy commander for the Navy recruiting command and deputy director of operations, U.S. Beyond these roles, Braun earned commanding positions across several units, including VR-48-during which time the unit earned a Battle Efficiency Award and Chief Naval Operations Aviation Safety Award-and the Navy Air Logistics Office.

She was attached to various squadrons, including Fleet Logistics Support Squadrons (VR) 51 and 61, and in many staff roles, including as a naval intern on the Joint Staff, as an aviation detailer on the Navy Personnel Command and as the deputy chief of Naval Operations for Operations, Plans and Strategy. Two years later, Braun joined the Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron in Hawaii, where she served in several positions using the EC-130Q aircraft. In 1981, she was stationed at the Naval Air Station in Corpus Christi, Texas, serving as an instructor pilot with the Training Squadron 31. She attended Northern Arizona University and earned her commission after graduating in 1980. The ship’s armament also includes anti-air and anti-ship/land missiles and a number of cruise missiles.Robin Braun was born in Pensacola, Florida. Her main gun is a 100mm A190E and is supported by two Kashtan CIWS ships guns and two torpedo tubes. Her crew complement totals 180 personnel, including 18 officers. Powered by two DS-71 cruise turbines and two DT 59 boost turbines, the ship can achieve a speed of 30 knots. The frigate displaces 4,035 tons loaded and has a length of 125 metres and width of 15.2m. Built in Russia as a modified Krival III class and commissioned in June 2003, she incorporates stealth technologies together with a hull designed to reduce the ship’s radar cross section. INS Trishul is the second frigate of the Talwar class within the Indian Navy. The ship is on an operational deployment in the Indian Ocean and just sailed from Mombasa after a visit to Kenya. The third foreign naval ship to visit South Africa is the Indian Navy frigate, INS Trishul, which arrived off Durban on 6 June. She is commanded by frigate captain Taveira Pinto. NRP Arpão has a crew of 35 and was commissioned in 2010. Her range is 12 000 nautical miles at 8 knots with an endurance of 60 days. Her propulsion consists of two AIP Siemens Sinavy (BZM-120) generators, two MTU 16V396 TB-94 diesel engines, one Siemens Permasyn electric engine, and has a speed of 20 knots submerged and 10 knots surfaced. The submarine was built by HDW and was laid down in 2005. Her speed is 20 knots submerged and 10 knots on the surface. The boat displaces 1 700 tonnes surfaced and has a length of 67.7 metres and width of 6.35 metres. She is visiting Cape Verde, Brazil, South Africa, Angola, and Morocco, which is the longest ever Portuguese submarine deployment. NRP Arpão is a Tridente-class attack submarine and is currently on a 13 000 nautical mile voyage that has taken her for the first time south of the equator. She has a complement of 42 crew and is designed as a non-combatant ship and is therefore lightly armed. For added manoeuvrability she has a bow transverse thruster.īuilt in Portugal, the ship was commissioned in 2019 as one of ten proposed vessels. She has diesel-electric propulsion, and is powered by two Wärtsilä diesel engines, producing 5 200 bhp (3 900 kW), providing power to two electric motors, which drive two controllable pitch propellers for a maximum patrol service speed of 21 knots. The patrol vessel NRP Setúbal is 84 metres in length, and has a displacement of 1 850 tons. There are approximately 500 000 South Africans of Portuguese descent and about 200 000 Portuguese nationals who reside in SA permanently, serving as an important economic link between the two countries. According to an SABC report, Portugal’s president visits a different country to celebrate the Day of Portugal with the Portuguese Diaspora. South Africa is currently hosting naval vessels from two nations, with the Indian Navy frigate INS Trishul in Durban and the Portuguese patrol ship NRP Setúbal and submarine NRP Arpão in Cape Town.Ĭoinciding with the Portuguese vessels being in port, the President of Portugal Rebelo de Sousa is in South Africa for a State Visit and will celebrate Portugal Day on 10 June. The Portuguese Naval submarine NRP Arpao.

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