Category: Security policy

Drones monitor sulphur emissions in the Baltic Sea

Drones monitor sulphur emissions in the Baltic Sea

Gepostet von | 22 Apr 2022 | , , , , | 0

Remotely piloted aircraft will be used to search for ships that do not comply with the sulphur limits in the region. The project, carried out by the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) together with the Federal Maritime and Hydrographic Agency, is a continuation of similar projects that EMSA has carried out in this area. Over the next three months, a drone will measure the sulphur content in the exhaust plumes of ships travelling through the Baltic Sea. The "sniffer" will be able to detect any breaches of the applicable limit values. At the same time, image data will also be collected for hydrographic surveying. The remote-controlled aircraft will take off from the Staberhuk military base...

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New international task force for the Red Sea established

New international task force for the Red Sea established

Gepostet von | 22 Apr 2022 | , , , , | 0

The Combined Maritime Forces (CMF) have established a new international naval task force to enhance maritime security in the Red Sea region. During a ceremony at the US Navy's regional headquarters in Bahrain on 17 April, Vice Admiral Brad Cooper, commander of US Naval Forces Central Command, US 5th Fleet and the CMF, commissioned Combined Task Force (CTF) 153, the US Navy said. As the fourth task force of the CMF, CTF 153 will focus on international maritime security and capacity building in the Red Sea, Bab al-Mandeb and the Gulf of Aden. The CMF is the...

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For the sinking of a cruiser

For the sinking of a cruiser

Gepostet von | 22 Apr 2022 | , , , , | 0

Wrong place, insufficient capability or arrogance? On 15 April, Russia was forced to admit that the missile cruiser "Moskva" had sunk while being towed back to port. The Russian and Ukrainian versions differed, marineforum reported. Will this have consequences for the way naval forces operate and the risks they take? The last time a ship of comparable size to the Moskva was sunk by an enemy force was in 1982, when the Argentinian light cruiser "General Belgrano" was torpedoed by the Royal Navy's submarine "Conqueror" during the ten-day Falklands War. However, this is hardly comparable, because the submarine...

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Russian fleet movements in the Baltic Sea

Russian fleet movements in the Baltic Sea

Gepostet von | 20 Apr 2022 | , , , , | 0

The Steregushiy-class corvettes RFS "Stoykiy" (545) and RFS "Soobrazitelny" (531), as well as the seagoing tug RFS Viktor "Konetskiy" returned to Baltiysk from the Skagerrak on 15 April 2022. Observers assume routine manoeuvre activity in the North Sea and Atlantic. On 16 April 2022, the large landing ship RFS "Ivan Gren" (010) of the Russian Northern Fleet then moved through the Kattegat and Great Belt into the Baltic Sea, where it arrived in Baltiysk on 18 April 2022. Whether the background to the relocation of the landing ship is a shipyard stay at the Yantar shipyard or the loading or unloading of weapons and equipment is speculation. Possibly...

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Flagship of the Black Sea Fleet damaged and sunk

Flagship of the Black Sea Fleet damaged and sunk

Gepostet von | 14 Apr 2022 | , , , | 0

Last message Thursday, 14.04.2022, 23:00 Russian Ministry of Defence confirms according to several media reports that the Russian cruiser "Moskva", the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet, presumably damaged by at least one Ukrainian sea target missile "Neptune", sank last night. While the burning ship was being towed from its last position about 25 miles east of Snake Island to Sevastopol, it lost its "stability" in heavy seas and sank. Thursday, 14.04.2022, 10:00 a.m. A week ago, NavalNews had published a report on the "Moskva" by "Covert Shores" editor H.I. Sutton, in which the ship was portrayed very well in a striking way see link! www.navalnews.com Now we receive news...

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