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The marineforum calendar: Dates!

The marineforum calendar: Dates!

14 Nov 2024 | , ,

15 November 2024 - 1st Meermachen Schleswig-Holstein Future Dialogue, Kiel This maritime future dialogue is organised by and for maritime entrepreneurs and researchers from Schleswig-Holstein. Be part of an exclusive event that focuses on exchanging ideas, making new contacts and promoting forward-looking projects in the maritime industry and marine research. Experience exciting pitches, inspiring impulses and targeted 1:1 matchings that will open up new perspectives and opportunities for cooperation. The expertise in and from Schleswig-Holstein takes centre stage. Further information 19 November 2024 - Virtual regulars' table of the Personnel and Qualification specialist group, online The virtual regulars' table...

"Das Boot" - surfaced in Wilhelmshaven!

"Das Boot" - surfaced in Wilhelmshaven!

10 Oct 2024 | , ,

To be released in October 2024 - pre-order now! U 96 seems indestructible. After the book (1973) and film (1981) "Das Boot" was a hit with millions, its final chapter has now been revealed. The boat on which Lothar-Günther Buchheim collected his material for "Das Boot" as a war correspondent in autumn 1941 still exists, in Wilhelmshaven! Here, on the North Sea, U 96 was bombed shortly before the end of the war and a few years later, in 1948, its remains were used as filling material in the newly built Grodendamm. The journalist duo Gerrit Reichert and Dr Frank Ganseuer have now traced this trail with a wealth of facts. Starting with an aerial photograph taken by the Royal Air Force of the broken U...

"The Reibert" - now available to order from Mittler!

"The Reibert" - now available to order from Mittler!

27 Sep 2024 | , ,

"Der Reibert - Das Handbuch für die Soldatinnen und Soldaten der Bundeswehr" can now be ordered from Mittler! The Reibert has been the standard handbook for the Bundeswehr for decades and offers comprehensive basic knowledge of laws, ordinances, decrees and service regulations. Indispensable for soldiers of all ranks. On 24 September 2024, the new edition of "Der Reibert - Das Handbuch für Soldatinnen und Soldaten der Bundeswehr" was published by Mittler Report Verlag GmbH. The comprehensively revised and updated edition also includes the organisational changes in the branches of the armed forces and in the Ministry of Defence, information on the new organisational area of cyber and information space as well as details on the newly introduced hand weapons...

ASPIDES: Participation of Belgian frigate delayed

ASPIDES: Participation of Belgian frigate delayed

18 Apr 2024 | , , ,

The integration of the Belgian frigate "Louise-Marie" (F931) into the European naval operation EUNAVFOR ASPIDES to protect shipping against attacks by Houthi militias in the Red Sea will have to wait. According to a statement from the Brussels Ministry of Defence on 12 April 2024, the frigate will now remain in the Mediterranean for training purposes and will postpone its passage of the Suez Canal scheduled for that day until technical faults have been rectified. The frigate of the former Dutch M-class left Zeebrugge on 10 March for a deployment in the Red Sea lasting several months. While the official statement does not go into the causes, the error is said to have occurred during a test firing of the RIM-7 Sea Sparrow surface-to-air missile system,...

Mission boats for frigates: Latest technology - proven function

Mission boats for frigates: Latest technology - proven function

9 Feb 2024 | , , , ,

Wilhelmshaven - The first two new and modernised Rapid C-810 rescue and operations boats have been handed over to Flotilla 2. They will be deployed on the F123 and F124 class frigates. The first boat has already been successfully integrated on the "Hamburg", F124 and sister ship of the "Hessen", which left for the Red Sea on Thursday, 8 February 2024 in preparation for the yet-to-be-mandated EUNAVFOR "Aspides" mission, and is operationally available as a so-called boarding boat, for sea rescue and for transporting people and material. The two standby and operational boats have been added to the twelve already existing and up to now...

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Why there will be no German aircraft carrier

Why there will be no German aircraft carrier

May 22, 2012

It comes back every year - the discussion about a German aircraft carrier! Has Germany's security situation and its importance in the world changed to such an extent that a national carrier capability is necessary? Why should Germany invest a lot of money and effort - it takes around 20 years to fully develop a carrier capability - in a capability that is already available in Europe? Incidentally, it is revealing that in such discussions there is usually talk of just one German carrier, as if the proponents already realise that there is no money for more than one ship. Prestige and...

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