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Rostock: Deepening the sea canal - but still no room for large ships

Rostock: Deepening the sea canal - but still no room for large ships

Gepostet von | 25 Nov 2024 | , , | 0

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Visiting the Queen

Visiting the Queen

Gepostet von | 22 Nov 2024 | , , | 0

We have already reported on the unusual guest in Hamburg harbour. For shipspotters - British aircraft carrier visits Hamburg On Thursday we had the privileged opportunity to visit the large warship. For security reasons, it was not open to the public, and we from Mittler-Report were not able to get on board without further ado, but had to undergo the professional and very careful security checks carried out by the Hamburg Home Guard. The comrades from the state command obviously had their hands full making sure our friends had a good stay. Once on board, we were met by an officer and a chief, who were very professional and...

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Start of firing of the first fleet service boat

Start of firing of the first fleet service boat

Gepostet von | 22 Nov 2024 | , , , | 0

Naval Vessels Lürssen (NVL) starts the production phase for the fleet service boats The fleet service boats OKER, ALSTER and OSTE, which have been in service for more than 30 years, will be replaced by the new units and will be available to the German Navy from 2029. Together with Annette Lehnigk-Emden, President of the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw), Flotilla Admiral Andreas Czerwinski, Head of the BAAINBw's Maritime Department, and Lürssen Managing Director Justus Reinke, Tim Wagner, CEO of NVL, today pressed the start button to start up the plasma cutting system for the symbolic first steel cut. The order was placed with NVL in 2021. Construction of the technologically highly complex new type will...

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IPD Association commemorates 1997 aircraft collision

IPD Association commemorates 1997 aircraft collision

Gepostet von | 21 Nov 2024 | , , | 0

The IPD24 Association of the German Navy commemorated the 1997 aircraft collision off Namibia. When a BMVg aircraft collided with a US Air Force aircraft, 33 people lost their lives, including twelve comrades from the German Navy. With a short stopover and a commemoration of the dead at sea on the Indo-Pacific convoy's return journey from Cape Town to the Mediterranean, the Navy commemorated the shocking incident when two aircraft collided in the vastness of uncontrolled airspace off the African continent. Background The collision occurred on 13 September 1997 over the Atlantic Ocean about 120 kilometres off the coast of the southwest African state of Namibia at 35,000...

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