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Cold Response: "Bad Bevensen" returns from major manoeuvre in the Arctic Circle

Cold Response: "Bad Bevensen" returns from major manoeuvre in the Arctic Circle

Gepostet von | 11 Apr 2022 | , , | 0

On Saturday, 9 April 2022 at 10 a.m., the minehunting boat "Bad Bevensen" arrived in its home port of Kiel. The boat, which belongs to the 3rd Minehunting Squadron, took part in the multinational Cold Response exercise, where around 30,000 soldiers from 27 nations with 50 ships and boats as well as 200 aircraft practised the defence and military reinforcement of Norway until the beginning of April. The exercise has been held regularly every two years since 2006. There is no connection with the Russian war of aggression against Ukraine. The German Navy was on site with several hundred men and women. Norway's neighbouring countries Sweden and Finland took part in the...

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Stahlbau Nord has completed the first frigate for the Egyptian Navy

Stahlbau Nord has completed the first frigate for the Egyptian Navy

Gepostet von | 9 Apr 2022 | , , | 0

Stahlbau Nord, a member of the Rönner Group, has completed the first frigate for the Egyptian navy. It is now going on test runs in the North Sea. One day later than originally planned, the "Al Aziz", the first of three Egyptian frigates from Stahlbau Nord (SBN), has set sail for its first sea trials in the North Sea. According to current information, the sea trials of the frigate with the military identification 904 will probably last until next weekend. Stahlbau Nord is part of the Bremerhaven-based Rönner Group. The company was subcontracted by the Kiel shipyard TKMS to build the three Meko 200 frigates....

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+++ German shipowners are worried about their seafarers+++

+++ German shipowners are worried about their seafarers+++

Gepostet von | 8 Apr 2022 | , , | 0

Danger for German ships? German shipowners are worried that Moscow could react to the closure of Western ports to Russian ships and that ships could be used as pawns in the Ukraine war. "We fear possible countermeasures by the Russian side with regard to the EU-ordered closures of European ports for Russian ships," said Gaby Bornheim, President of the German Shipowners' Association (VDR). "There is a risk that our ships will be tied up in Russian harbours. We appeal not to allow seafarers and civilian merchant ships to become pawns in this conflict." The EU states have previously announced the closure of EU ports to...

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Mines in the Black Sea: Russia accuses Ukraine

Mines in the Black Sea: Russia accuses Ukraine

Gepostet von | 8 Apr 2022 | , , , | 0

Ukraine and Russia have accused each other of releasing Soviet-era YaM and YarM mines floating in the northern Black Sea, three of which have been discovered and neutralised so far. According to Russian claims, there are hundreds of mines near its coast. Some of them are floating in the open waters of the Black Sea and are a danger to commercial shipping. This comes a day after Kiev claimed that Moscow was responsible. The Ukrainian Foreign Ministry said on Wednesday that Russia was laying sea mines in the Black Sea as "uncontrolled drifting ammunition" and making them "a de facto weapon for...

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Head of the French military intelligence service dismissed

Head of the French military intelligence service dismissed

Gepostet von | 7 Apr 2022 | , | 0

General Eric Vidaud, France's head of military intelligence, has been sacked for failing to forecast the war in Ukraine. The department had poorly analysed the history of the Russian invasion and failed to correctly predict the war, reports AFP. L'Opinion reported on Thursday, 31/03/22, that this was due to inadequate briefings and a lack of expertise. The army's chief of staff, Thierry Burkhard, had already publicly pointed out the service's failings in an interview with the daily newspaper Le Monde. Compared to the US intelligence services, "our services tended to think that the conquest of Ukraine would come at a tremendous price and that the Russians had other options," said Burkhard.

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