Category: Armed Forces

Eckernförde: Fleet commander sets up new KSM units

Eckernförde: Fleet commander sets up new KSM units

Gepostet von | 31 Mar 2023 | , , | 2

On 5 April 2023 at 14:30, the new units of the Naval Special Forces Command (KSM) will be commissioned by the Commander of the Fleet and Support Forces and Deputy Inspector General of the Navy, Vice Admiral Frank Lenski (61), as part of a formal roll call. The new structure and thus a significant expansion of the KSM was approved by the Ministry of Defence some time ago. The "KSM 2023+" structure is now taking great strides forward. Starting on 1 April 2023, the oldest special forces unit in the Bundeswehr will grow to around 600 posts by 2025. This means that by then, the number...

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German Navy: We are puzzling a corvette!

German Navy: We are puzzling a corvette!

Gepostet von | 31 Mar 2023 | , , , | 0

In order to give as many German shipyards as possible a slice of the cake, construction is split between them: one builds the forecastle, another the stern, the third puts everything together and turns it into a proper hull - and the fourth gives the ship an electronic interior! This is what happened again with the German Navy's latest newbuilding, the corvette Luebeck. The towing train with the corvette's forecastle section was towed from German Naval Yards Kiel (GNYK) through the Kiel Canal (NOK) to Blohm+Voss in Hamburg on 25 March 2023. One day later, on 26 March 2023, the corvette, built by the Lürssen-Peenewerft...

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Marine Special Forces Command - back from the desert!

Marine Special Forces Command - back from the desert!

Gepostet von | 28 Mar 2023 | , , , , | 1

Successful cooperation - roll call for returnees for Gazelle training mission On Monday, 3 April 2023 at 1 p.m., a roll call will be held as a symbolic act for the end of the Joint Special Operations Task Force (JSOTF) Gazelle. This was part of the European Union Training Mission (EUTM) Mali and will take place with invited guests from politics and the military at the Eckernförde naval base. This special recognition goes not only to the men and women of the Naval Special Forces Command (KSM), but also to all the Bundeswehr units involved, who worked together successfully to make this mission a success. Initially, it was a training mission, which became...

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175 years of German navies - 175th foreign training voyage of the "Gorch Fock"

175 years of German navies - 175th foreign training voyage of the "Gorch Fock"

Gepostet von | 16 Mar 2023 | , , | 0

From a press release by the Naval Command: On Monday, 20 March 2023 at 10 a.m., the German Navy's sail training ship, the "Gorch Fock", will leave the city of Kiel after a long winter break for its 175th training voyage abroad and will therefore not be in its home port for the 175th anniversary of the founding of the German Navy. Under the command of Captain Andreas-Peter Graf von Kielmansegg (56), the voyage will initially head south to Spain and Portugal in the anniversary year. The return journey will take the ship and crew back to Kiel via Ireland. A good 250 naval officer candidates from the 2022 crew will take part in three voyages as part of their "Seamen's Training Programme".

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EU with revised maritime security strategy

EU with revised maritime security strategy

Gepostet von | 14 Mar 2023 | , , , | 0

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