Category: Security policy

Ceremonial handover on the Weser

Ceremonial handover on the Weser

Gepostet von | 31 May 2023 | , , , | 2

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 awarded by the Indonesian Ministry of Defence on 29 January 2019, is worth 204 million US dollars (approx. 183 million euros). The design of the 62-metre vessels is based on the German Navy's Frankenthal class. The boats are equipped with a state-of-the-art sonar system and drones for mine warfare. As with MCM mission systems deployed by the German Navy on the Frankenthal class, drones will be used...

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NATO: Names are news

NATO: Names are news

Gepostet von | 26 May 2023 | , , | 0

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. Prior to joining the MSC, he was Commissioner for the Middle East and North Africa at the Federal Foreign Office, Ambassador to Saudi Arabia and Deputy Ambassador to the USA. He has also focussed on security policy and the Western Balkans. During the NATO operation against Serbia in 1999, he worked at NATO headquarters in Brussels and later served as a political advisor to two commanders of the NATO forces in Kosovo (KFOR)....

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Germany remains sea-blind

Germany remains sea-blind

Gepostet von | 26 May 2023 | , , | 0

With the title "Rediscovered - the northern flank area", the German Maritime Institute (DMI) once again attracted experts, interested parties and trade visitors to the Hotel Atlantic in Wilhelmshaven this year. This was the ninth time that the organisers had repeated the now prominent format, which is made possible together with griephan, the German Navy's Operational Flotilla 2, the German Armed Forces Association (DBwV), the German Naval Association (DMB) and the German Atlantic Society. And that is why the Lord Mayor Carsten Feist did not miss the opportunity to personally convey the city's greetings on 24 May. With his usual humour and undisguised pride in his city, he summed up the...

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Satellite photos: China on the advance in Antarctica

Satellite photos: China on the advance in Antarctica

Gepostet von | 15 May 2023 | , , , | 0

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, in view of the current global political situation, Western governments fear that the increasing presence of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in the polar regions is aimed at strengthening reconnaissance and surveillance. China's fifth station in the Antarctic The new research station on Inexpressible Island on the edge of the Ross Sea is to include an observatory with a satellite station, according to the Centre for Strategic...

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Ukraine war: What is the Russian navy doing?

Ukraine war: What is the Russian navy doing?

Gepostet von | 15 May 2023 | , , | 7

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 as an escort for the cruiser "Slava" and now itself in flagship duty ("Admiral Makarov"). They will be followed by two Steregushchiy-class corvettes (105 metres, 2,200 tonnes), "Stoikiy" (545) and "Soobrazitelniy" (532), which originally belong in the Baltic Sea and have already been mentioned in connection with the acts of sabotage on the Nord Stream pipelines. These...

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