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Hanse Sail - Festival on the Warnow

Hanse Sail - Festival on the Warnow

Gepostet von | 8 Aug 2023 | , , , | 0

German Navy with a full programme here too. From 11-13 August 2023, the gates at the Warnemünde naval base will open again for the Hanse Sail. The German Navy will be attracting visitors with a special highlight: the training sailing ship "Gorch Fock" will be there. But it will also be interesting internationally: on the one hand, the Indonesian Navy will be visiting Warnemünde with its sail training ship "Bima Suci". On the other hand, NATO's Standing Mine Defence Force 1 and the Danish home defence cutters "Lyra" and "Aldebaran" will also be guests. In addition, the corvette "Ludwigshafen am Rhein" and the hollow-barrelled guided missile boat "Pegnitz" will be on public display. Visitors can look forward to the...

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Modern hunters for Indonesia

Modern hunters for Indonesia

Gepostet von | 7 Aug 2023 | , , , | 0

Abeking & Rasmussen delivers after just three years In 2020, the Indonesian Navy signed a contract for the construction of two minehunting vessels. The three units have now been delivered on time. The "KRI Pulau Fani - 731" and the "KRI Pulau Fanildo - 732" (construction numbers 6508 and 6509) are currently being shipped home on the dock ship "Combi Dock I" from Reedereit Harren und Partner. A & R employees will accompany the commissioning at the Indonesian Navy. When the minehunters were undergoing trials in the Baltic Sea, the Kieler Nachrichten cheered with the headline "the most modern minehunters in the world"....

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South Korea: US demonstration of power - Part 2

South Korea: US demonstration of power - Part 2

Gepostet von | 31 Jul 2023 | , , , | 0

In April 2023, the presidents of South Korea and the United States agreed that a US Navy submarine equipped with nuclear weapons would visit South Korea again. This is part of a bilateral agreement to improve the "regular visibility" of US strategic assets on the Korean peninsula and a response to repeated threats and North Korea's advancing nuclear programme. North Korea has fired 17 ballistic missiles on 12 separate test days this year. In July, a solid-fuelled intercontinental ballistic missile (Hwasong-18) and cruise missiles. However, the South Korean Ministry of Defence did not disclose how many of these were fired. Show of force II Now USS "Annapolis" (SSN-760/Los Angeles class), a 110 metre-long hunting submarine, was underway....

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German marines train in Australia

German marines train in Australia

Gepostet von | 28 Jul 2023 | , , , | 0

From a report on the Bundeswehr portal The German Navy's naval battalion is also involved in the large-scale multinational manoeuvre "Talisman Sabre" from 22 July to 4 August. Australia has hosted this largest joint training activity of its defence forces with the US military every two years since 2005. Talisman Sabre 2023 is now the tenth and largest iteration of the manoeuvre series to date. More than 30,000 military personnel from 13 nations are taking part this year: in addition to the organisers Australia and the USA, these are Fiji, France, Indonesia, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Tonga, Great Britain, Canada and Germany. The Philippines, Singapore and Thailand are sending observers to the exercise. Another...

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USA: President nominates Lisa Franchetti as new CNO

USA: President nominates Lisa Franchetti as new CNO

Gepostet von | 24 Jul 2023 | , , , | 0

US President Joe Biden has nominated Admiral Lisa Franchetti to succeed Admiral Michael Gilday as Chief of Naval Operations (CNO - Chief of Staff U.S. Navy), who has been in office since August 2019. If the decision is confirmed, she would be the first woman to head a branch of the US military and also the first female member of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. She is currently Gilday's deputy, who will soon be retiring. Competition Biden's nomination of Franchetti comes as a surprise. In doing so, he overrode the recommendation of his defence minister Lloyd Austin, who, according to information from the Pentagon in June, opted for Admiral...

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