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The BAE Systems Tempest is a proposed sixth-generation fighter aircraft that is under development in the United Kingdom for the Royal Air Force (RAF). The aircraft is intended to enter service from 2035, gradually replacing the Eurofighter Typhoon .
Built by Damen shipyards in Cape Town. [8] SAS King Shaka Zulu: P1572 2023 - SAS Adam Kok: P1573 2024 - T class: Inshore patrol vessel: SAS Tobie: P1552 1992 37 tonnes - Built by T-Craft International in Cape Town. SAS Tern: P1553 1996 37 tonnes - Built by T-Craft International in Cape Town. SAS Tekwane: P1554 1996 37 tonnes - Built by T-Craft ...
A small dockyard facility was first established in Simon's Town by the Dutch East India Company in 1743. This was taken over by the British Royal Navy (RN) in the 1790s, under whom the facility was further developed over the following century and a half. A pair of handsome stone storehouses dating from the 1740s stand on the seafront where they ...
TEMPEST (Telecommunications Electronics Materials Protected from Emanating Spurious Transmissions [1]) is a U.S. National Security Agency specification and a NATO certification [2] [3] referring to spying on information systems through leaking emanations, including unintentional radio or electrical signals, sounds, and vibrations.
HMS Birkenhead – The troopship struck a rock near Cape Town on 26 February while ferrying troops to the 8th Xhosa War. The ship sank with the loss of 450 men. 450 1807 United Kingdom: The troopships Rochdale and Prince of Wales – Bound for the Napoleonic war were caught by a storm in Dublin Bay and lost on 19 November. More than 400 people ...
HMS Capetown was a C-class light cruiser of the Royal Navy, named after the South African city of Cape Town. So far she has been the only ship of the Royal Navy to bear the name. She was part of the Carlisle group of the C-class of cruisers. Capetown was commissioned too late to see action in the First World War, but served in the Second World War.
The remaining aircraft collection was subsequently moved outdoors by the Landlord of the Thunder City Hangar in Cape Town. At the end of 2021, Jay Smith, an ex oil entrepreneur with a passion for fast jets and head of South African aircraft maintenance company Hangar 51, bought the remains of the Thunder City collection from Mike Beachy Head's ...
The Tempest World Championship is an annual international sailing regatta for Tempest (keelboat)s, organized by the host club on behalf of the International Tempest ...