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Arctic Blue - Successful documentary about power poker in the Arctic

marineforum has been following developments in the Arctic and the North Atlantic for some time now. Because the ice is melting - faster than some would like - too slowly for others. The landscape is changing faster than in the rest of the world, and with it the conditions. There is new, easier access to natural resources, new transport and shipping routes are emerging - and new claims to power. Documentary on the situation in the Arctic In the two-part film Arctic Blue - Power Poker in the Melting Ice, ZDF reporter Johannes Hano and his team travel through the north of the USA, Canada, Greenland, Norway and Russia....

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Impulses for defence policy 2022 - Symposium on 7 March 2022

The DEUTSCHE GESELLSCHAFT FÜR WEHRTECHNIK e.V. is holding the symposium "Prospects for the defence industry 2022" on 7 March 2022. Offline. For more than 10 years, the Defence Industry Perspectives Symposium has been the kick-off event of DWT and SGW for the respective event year. It has proved extremely successful in this function. Statements made by the Federal Ministry of Defence (BMVg) and senior representatives of the security and defence industry at the beginning of the year always provide important points of reference for the further development of defence policy, but above all for equipping the Bundeswehr in the current year. This applies in particular to the Symposium 2022, which is now being held a few months after the formation of the...

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IRIS-T SLM air defence system successfully tested

Ground-based air defence system IRIS-T SLM proves its capabilities under realistic operating conditions. Abbreviations are always a marvellous thing - everyone thinks they know it, only the insiders actually do! IRIS-T stands for Infra Red Imaging System - Tail/Thrust Vector-Controlled; SLM stands for Surface Launched Medium Range. Or, to make it even more legible: IRIS-T is an air-to-air missile with an infrared seeker head for the near and short range, which can now also be launched from ground-level platforms in the SLM version. It was developed in Germany under the leadership of Diehl BGT Defence in Überlingen together with six other countries. From a press release issued by the manufacturer: "Successful firing with the enhanced system:...

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