And they came! Young and...experienced: you can't get more than an inspector of the navy. Good conversations and naval feeling at the naval base in Kiel. This is how the MOV community of values works. The IPD flag JuMOV of the frigate "Bayern" was there. Text/Photo: R. Engel
...At the Sunday reception of Kiel Week 2023 on the frigate "Bayern", Guido Gerdemann, Managing Director of Hamburg-based MTG Marinetechnik GmbH, presented a model of the "Gorch Fock" to Vice Admiral Jan Christian Kaack, Inspector of the German Navy. As the sail training ship is currently in the North Atlantic and cannot be in Kiel, it had to be...
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.16" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" custom_padding="|||" global_colors_info="{}" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.19.5" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat" hover_enabled="0" global_colors_info="{}" sticky_enabled="0"] Diving with the Federal President On Tuesday, 13 June 2023, Federal President Frank-Walter Steinmeier paid a visit to the German Navy in Eckernförde. Among other things, he was scheduled to...
The German Navy has barely celebrated its 175th anniversary when the German government publishes a national security strategy entitled "Wehrhaft. Resilient. Sustainable. Integrated Security for Germany" as a gift. Long awaited Apart from the fact that the bodies responsible for Germany's national security have been waiting for such a basic paper for decades, e.g. for...
On 30 May 2023, ABEKING & RASMUSSEN Schiffs- und Yachtwerft SE in Lemwerder ceremoniously handed over the two minehunting boats built for the Indonesian Navy on the Weser. The client had set a tight schedule for the shipyard with its almost 500 employees. The contract, which was signed on 29 January 2019 by the Indonesian...
The diplomat Boris Ruge (61), currently Deputy Chairman of the Munich Security Conference (MSC), is to replace his German colleague Bettina Cadenbach and become NATO Deputy Secretary General for Political Affairs and Security Policy. Profil Ruge joined the Foreign Service in 1989. Before joining the MSC, he was Commissioner for the Middle East and North Africa...
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According to media reports from the beginning of May, new satellite images from a Washington-based think tank show that China has resumed construction of its fifth Antarctic research station after a break of around five years. According to Chinese sources, the aim is to open up new shipping routes and expand its own research in the Antarctic. However, Western governments are concerned about the current...
For a good two weeks now, NATO navies have been accompanying a Russian formation on its way from the Mediterranean around Western Europe to the harbours and shipyards of the Baltic Fleet. The small group is led by the frigate "Admiral Grigorovich" (494), the type ship of the three combat units built for the Black Sea Fleet - intended...
From press releases of the German Armed Forces and the Naval Command Rostock Naval Command, 28 April 2023 Order of the day at the end of the military evacuation operation Sudan On 14 April, bloody unrest broke out in Sudan. The long-simmering conflict within the security apparatus is increasingly plunging Africa's third-largest country by area into chaos. It quickly became clear that the country...
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