Although the war of aggression against Ukraine launched by President Putin at the end of February 2022 is mainly taking place on land, its maritime component is of no less strategic importance for the two warring parties. This is made clear by the maritime blockade of the Ukrainian coast and harbour cities by Russia, including the dramatic development around...
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" yesterday evening, has sunk. While the burning ship was travelling from its last position about 25 miles east of Snake Island to Sevastopol, the...
In mid-February - six days before the Russian invasion of Ukraine - we asked ourselves whether the German government was waking up from its slumber in view of the threat on Europe's eastern flank with regard to the defence force and its expenditure. We specifically wrote in an article: The media image is becoming...
With its increased naval presence in the Black Sea, Russia now almost completely surrounds Ukraine, including the previously existing gap in the south. What do these increased naval movements mean? Are they related to the Ukraine crisis? To get a picture of the situation, it is worth taking a look at communications from the Ministry of Defence of the Russian Federation, which...
It was 25 years ago these days that the German Navy evacuated the German Somalia Support Unit from Mogadishu. This army unit had previously supported the United Nations Operation UNOSOM II in Somalia. It was the first major foreign deployment for the army, which came to an abrupt end when the...
A guest article by Raimund Wallner On 3 February 2017, the Norwegian government announced that Germany, and not France, had been selected as the strategic partner for the submarine project to ensure the succession of the ULA class. The aim of the decision is the joint procurement and lifetime management of identical submarines based on the German Class 212A...
In July 2016, the renowned "Center for Strategic International Studies" (CSIS) in Washington D.C., founded by Admiral Arleigh Burke, published the study "Undersea Warfare in Northern Europe". Downloading and reading the almost 50-page work is well worth the time. In the acknowledgements, the attentive reader learns that "experts from Finland, Poland,...
Stories about old captains are a dime a dozen. Axel Prahl, who grew up on the Baltic Sea, loves the sea and has selected the best stories for us and summarises the quintessence of the stories in short, apt commentaries. The stories are about storms, dangers, it's about the...
This is followed by the first-placed entry in the DMI essay competition by Lieutenant Captain Mark Baumert:
...This is followed by the second-placed entry in the DMI essay competition by the team of authors Oberleutnant zur See M.Sc. Benedict Warkus and Oberleutnant zur See M.A. Kian Kottke:
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