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Ready for Japan

Ready for Japan

Gepostet von | 14 Apr 2021 | , , , | 0

Damen Shiprepair returned the frigate Evertsen to the Dutch Navy this week. Over the past six weeks, the ship, which was commissioned in 2005, has been repaired in the Amsterdam shipyard and prepared for its next task. As part of the British Carrier Strike Group around Queen Elizabeth, the Evertsen will embark on a voyage of around 40,000 kilometres towards Asia from May. It will also call at Japan. Manoeuvres will also be held together with the Japanese Self-Defence Forces. In addition to the aircraft carrier, the group also includes two Type 45 destroyers (HMS Diamond and HMS Defender), two Type 23 frigates (HMS Richmond and HMS...

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Relocation of US troops via Rotterdam completed

Relocation of US troops via Rotterdam completed

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Around 1,200 vehicles and containers as well as 54 helicopters from a brigade of the 101st Airborne Division are on their way to their home base in Kentucky. They are on board a ship that left the port of Rotterdam a few days ago. As mfo already reported, the Dutch military supported the transport as part of Host Nation Support. With success, as the operation was carried out quickly and without any major problems. The US unit is returning after nine months in Eastern Europe. There, it was part of the troop reinforcement that the United States deployed in response to Russia's annexation of Crimea in 2014.

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Seafaring with chip fat

Seafaring with chip fat

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In March last year, UECC launched the trial with MS Autosky, a 20-year-old car transporter with a capacity of around 2,000 vehicles travelling on European routes. Over the course of the one-year pilot project, the ship consumed around 6,000 tonnes of biofuel, significantly reducing CO2 emissions. In addition, 9,000 kilograms less sulphur oxide and hardly any particulate matter are said to have been produced. Overall, CO2 per tonne kilometre was reduced by 60 %, far beyond the reduction of 40 % targeted by the IMO in 2030.

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Kiel minehunting boats replace each other in the NATO task force

Kiel minehunting boats replace each other in the NATO task force

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Minehunting boat "Datteln" returns to its home port of Kiel after three months of NATO deployment. The boat was part of one of NATO's two standing mine countermeasures groups, the "Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1", or SNMCMG 1 for short. The crew will hand over the baton to its sister boat "Sulzbach-Rosenberg", which will leave Kiel one day later on Thursday, 15 April 2021 and rejoin the NATO group as a new German contribution. For the 42 men and women on the crew of the "Datteln", including a US Navy soldier, the past deployment was strenuous but very successful. Under the leadership of Corvette Captain Tanja Merkl (35), the...

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Rotation in Rota

Rotation in Rota

Gepostet von | 14 Apr 2021 | , , , | 0

After a two-week voyage, the USS Arleigh Burke arrived in her new home port of Rota on 11 April. At the end of March, she left her previous home in Norfolk for the last time for the next few years. On her way to Europe, the destroyer took part in a number of sub-hunting manoeuvres with her sister ship USS Roosevelt, the attack submarine USS Vermont and a P-8A. The Arleigh Burke is now an important part of the US European Phased Adaptive Approach (EPAA) and thus serves to protect Europe from ballistic missiles of all ranges. It is also intended to ensure freedom of navigation in the waters around Europe and...

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