In early 2024 an Israeli Saar (Sa’ar) corvette experienced its first combat action off the Israeli Red Sea port city of Eilat at Israel’s southernmost tip at the north end of the Gulf of Aqaba, which is on the east side of the Sinai Peninsula
Later this year Israel will finally have all four of their new Saar (Sa’ar) 6-class corvettes operational This comes two years after the ships were completed in Germany At that point the Saars had most of their weapons and other equipment but it
Later this year Israel will finally have all four of their new Saar (Sa’ar) 6-class corvettes operational This comes two years after the ships were completed in Germany At that point the Saars had most of their weapons and other equipment but it
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March 12, 2021: Israel is introducing a new, larger helicopter to operate from its new Saar 6 corvettes. The American SH-60 Seahawk will complement and eventually replace a smaller French helicopter. Since the late 1990s, the Israeli navy has maintained a squadron of French AS 565 naval helicopters. These were based on land and used to support warships at sea. The only Israeli warship the 4.3 ton AS 565 could land on were the three 1,075-ton Saar 5 ships. Israel obtained the Saar 5s in the early 1990s and while these ships had a helicopter landing pad, there was no hangar so that a helicopter could be carried and used regularly. The Saar 6 was deliberately made two meters longer than originally planned to accommodate a hangar and the 10.4-ton SH-60.