Airships are a German invention, Count Zeppelin and Hugo Eckener are the great names that have left their mark. Lake Constance and Friedrichshafen will forever be associated with this pioneering era. However, every grandly conceived use of this "giant technology" ended tragically, whether as a weapon of war in the First World War or as a passenger solution in Lakehurst....
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On 4 May 2022, the Royal Danish Navy made history. The "Nils Juel" fired the test shot in a first-of-class shootout at the Andoya Space Defence Test Centre in Norway. An important step towards the optimal deployment of the three "Iver Huitfeldt" class frigates, it was the first SM-2 ship-to-air missile to be fired from this class of frigate. The...
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Blocked sea routes could trigger famine The war is not regional, it has an impact on the whole of Europe, indeed the whole world. In particular, the fact that Ukraine was the second largest grain exporter in the world before the war needs to be scrutinised. According to the figures for the 2019-2020 marketing year, Ukraine is behind...
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The naval base of Sevastopol on the south-western tip of Crimea has been the main base of the Russian Black Sea Fleet since the 18th century. This fleet is part of the former Imperial Russian Navy, or the Soviet naval fleet until 1991, and since then the naval forces of the Russian Federation. Although it is the smallest of the four fleets of the Russian...
The Washington Post literally called it "schadenfreude at sea" - Oligarchs already trying to "go dark" There seems to be something satisfying about tracking the movements of luxury yachts online, as people around the globe gloat about what problems the oligarchs are having and use Twitter, for example, to share names, locations, ownership and...
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