Category: Armed Forces

14th Armaments Report - Focus on naval helicopters

14th Armaments Report - Focus on naval helicopters

Posted by | 19 Jan 2022 | , , | 3

Vergangene Woche hat das BMVg seinen mittlerweile 14. Rüstungsbericht zur Lage der militärischen Großprojekte in der laufenden Beschaffung mit Stand Mitte Dezember 2021 veröffentlicht. Wir wollen einen Blick auf die für die Deutsche Marine relevanten Projekte werfen und fangen in dieser Woche mit den Marinehubschraubern an, konkret die beiden Projekte NH90 Naval Transport Helicopter (NTH) SEA LION und NH90 Multi Role Frigate Helicopter (MRFH). Dazu lesen wir im aktuellen Rüstungsbericht: Der NH90 ist ein von Frankreich, Italien, den Niederlanden und Deutschland gemeinsam entwickelter Transport- und Fregattenhubschrauber. Die Kooperationspartner beschaffen national angepasste Serienvarianten. Deutschland beschafft 82 NH90 Leichter Transporthubschrauber (LTH)...

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Review of the Maritime Convention 2021

Review of the Maritime Convention 2021

Posted by | 19 Nov 2021 | , , , , | 2

Originally planned as a face-to-face event, this year's Maritime Convention participants were able to listen to the two-part presentation on China! Maritime driver for Europe?! via webinar. The DMI hosted the event together with griephan in his customary expert manner. The key question of the first panel "China is a littoral on the South China Sea?" was answered by the Ambassador of the Republic of Singapore to Germany, Mr Laurence Bay, in a reversal of the facts: Germany and the EU are littoral states on the South China Sea. He sees this not only in the presence of European merchant ships in this sea area and in the numerous branches of European companies in this region, more than 2,000 in Singapore alone...

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Maritime fact check - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state election 2021

Maritime fact check - Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania state election 2021

Posted by | 24. Sep 2021 | , , | 0

Am Sonntag wird gewählt – nicht nur im Bund! Auch der Landtag von Mecklenburg-Vorpommern sucht mit Ablauf der fünf-jährigen Legislaturperiode sucht auf eine neue Zusammensetzung. Da das Land Mecklenburg-Vorpommern mit seinen über 2.000 Küstenkilometern immerhin die längste Küste aller Bundesländer sein Eigen nennt und mit seinen Häfen, Werften und der maritimen on- und offshore Industrie überregional und teilweise global eine führende Rolle spielt, darf der maritime Blick auf diese Landtagswahl nicht fehlen. Behilflich sein sollen uns dabei die Wahlprogramme der zwei im Landtag vertretenen Volksparteien sowie der Wahl-O-Mat! Dabei handelt es sich um ein digitales Vergleichsangebot für die Programme...

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Questions for German security policy

Questions for German security policy

Posted by | 25 Aug 2021 | , , , | 2

For some time now, questions about German foreign and security policy have been piling up that need to be answered after the Bundestag elections. The COVID pandemic, the flood disaster in western Germany and, most recently, the evacuation from Afghanistan have shown that the Federal Republic of Germany's ability to act is reaching its limits time and time again. These crises affect not only our external security, but also many areas of politics and society. The question arises as to whether the system of government needs to be fundamentally adapted. Do we need a constitutional reform commission of enquiry again, as we did in the 1970s, to make recommendations on a broad parliamentary and societal basis for the reform of...

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Private Public Partnerships - at what price?

Private Public Partnerships - at what price?

Posted by | 13 Jul 2021 | , | 0

Private Public Partnership was the magic word at the beginning of the 2000s, the concept was promised as the saviour for services in the public sector. Essentially, the idea was to privatise services provided by the state and public authorities - in themselves, mind you - in order to make them leaner, more efficient and, above all, profitable. Despite the transfer of the operational business, the federal government was to retain full or at least majority control over the shares of the newly created companies and thus the profits. The Federal Ministry of Defence (BMVg) also acquired a taste for this at the time: For example, the tasks of the clothing treasury of the...

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