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Emergency rescue centre - better without a container

Emergency rescue centre - better without a container

Gepostet von | 30 Oct 2022 | , , , | 0

The German Navy is taking another important step into the future with the new emergency rescue centre. The focus is on modernisation and efficiency. The loss of the Naval Rescue Centre (Merz), which was part of the FRANKFURT AM MAIN task force provider (EGV), in 2015 due to a major fire in a shipyard hall made it necessary to procure a new one. The development of the new rescue centre is based on the experience gained with the container modules Marine Operations Rescue Centre I and II in the technical operational network with the task force supply vessels BERLIN and FRANKFURT AM MAIN since 2002. The rescue centre is now integrated in a deckhouse that is permanently connected to the upper deck and the ship's superstructure and provides the necessary rescue services as part of the...

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German Navy procures RAM Block 2B

German Navy procures RAM Block 2B

Gepostet von | 27 Oct 2022 | , , , | 0

On 27 October 2022, RAMSYS (RAM-System GmbH, Munich) was awarded a procurement contract for 600 state-of-the-art Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) Block 2B guided missiles (LFK) for the German Navy. The new LFKs will be delivered to the navy from 2024. Clever seeker head A newly developed infrared seeker head and the introduction of a data exchange (missile-to-missile link) between several RAM Block 2Bs in a salvo significantly increase the combat value of the weapon system. Together with the more powerful radar seeker, the outstanding accuracy of the highly agile RAM LFK against current and future conventional and asymmetric threats is improved, thus strengthening the German Navy's ability to assert itself. Who invented it? The development was realised by RAMSYS...

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Book tip - Innovating Victory

Book tip - Innovating Victory

Gepostet von | 27 Oct 2022 | , | 0

Vincent P. O'Hara and Leonard R. Heinz: Innovating Victory: Naval Technology in Three Wars, Naval Institute Press, Annapolis 2022 The current maritime debate about future technologies, platforms and strategies is characterised by questions of effectiveness against equal opponents and their new weapon systems. Here, the innovative approach of the two authors O'Hara and Heinz could help to analyse this problem more promisingly in the future. Both analyse six key technologies of naval warfare from the Russo-Japanese War, the First and Second World Wars, such as new platforms (submarines and aircraft), new weapons (torpedoes and mines) and new tools (radar and radio). They compare their early or late introduction to the...

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German Navy contributes to energy security

German Navy contributes to energy security

Gepostet von | 26 Oct 2022 | , , | 0

From a navy press release On Monday, 24 October 2022, the minehunter "Bad Bevensen" and the minesweeper "Bad Rappenau" departed from the naval base in Kiel to actively participate in the search for contaminated sites in the sea area off Lubmin (east of Greifswald). The construction of an LNG terminal is planned there. The two mine countermeasure units will search the seabed to determine the absence of explosive ordnance. The units of the 3rd mine detection squadron and the sea battalion mine divers on board are specially equipped and trained for this task. By detecting contaminated sites, they will contribute to the German Navy's energy security in Germany. Background The...

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