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Aegis on land

The US Navy's newest base is now in Poland! The first crew members have moved into their accommodation and facilities. The move into the 50 million dollar multi-purpose building at the Naval Support Facility Redzikowo took place on Thursday. The strategic facility in northern Poland is part of NATO's European missile defence system. The NSF Redzikowo is located around 120 kilometres west of Gdansk on the Baltic coast. The Aegis Ashore missile defence system integrates the systems of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyers stationed in Rota (Spain) and the Aegis capabilities of the Naval Support Facility Deveselu in Romania. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has taken over the airbase, which was once...

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Ladies' electric patrol

The Dutch are faster again: Dutch battery system supplier EST-Floattech has delivered three 273kWh units for the new electrically powered patrol boats to Amsterdam. There, the police will patrol the canals in an environmentally friendly way. These are the Patrol Vessels 1304 built by Damen, and two more boats are currently under construction. EST-Floattech supplied the complete package of Green Orca batteries, battery management systems and battery control units, all in its own design. Source: EST-Floattech B.V.- Jan Hein Reeringh...

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Russia's naval manoeuvres

Addendum from 30.01.2022: Russia has withdrawn the notification of the firing project in the Irish EEZ - the exercises are now to take place outside the Irish area of interest. For more details see further "News" on Russian naval movements on this page. Article from 27.01.2022: These days it is probably necessary to bring together all available information and create an overall picture. Here, too, it is important to separate appearance from reality as far as possible. The information provided here is therefore not quite as fresh as we had hoped, but it is backed up by at least two reliable sources. That takes time. Baltic Sea Already on Monday...

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Russian naval manoeuvre also in the Black Sea

Following manoeuvres by the Baltic Fleet in the Baltic Sea and the Russian Northern Fleet in the Barents Sea, units of the Black Sea Fleet have now also left their bases for exercises, according to the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation. Here, too, more than twenty ships and boats from the ports of Sevastopol and Novorossiysk on the Black Sea and from Kerch and Rostov-on-Don at both ends of the Sea of Azov are to form formations close to the Russian coast, but also for further-reaching projects (beyond the Bosporus?). From almost every one of the units stationed in this region...

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Almost done: last F 125 handed over to the Bundeswehr

On 28 January, the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) took delivery of the frigate "Rheinland-Pfalz" (F 225) from ARGE F125 (Arbeitsgemeinschaft F125), which is made up of thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (tkMS) from Kiel as the lead company and the Naval Vessels Lürssen (NVL) Group. It will be some time before the ship is commissioned by the navy. In the case of the type ship "Baden-Württemberg", it was seven weeks before the "complete requirements for the operability of the ship", as it is called in official German, were met. The systems and equipment on board the "Rheinland-Pfalz" are tested during the sea trials. This includes safety inspections (for example...

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