The "new" tugboat has arrived in Kiel...
The "new" tugboat has arrived in Kiel...
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Is Russia circumventing the oil embargo?
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Germany's nuclear ship
The OTTO HAHN was launched 60 years ago. The much-noticed ship was powered by a nuclear reactor. Germany has phased out nuclear power. The issue seems to have been put to bed. A different mood prevailed in the 1950s, when the Federal Republic was still young. The USA and the Soviet Union faced each other as nuclear powers, while at the same time US President Dwight D. Eisenhower had invoked the peaceful use of nuclear power in a famous speech. This zeitgeist also reached Germany, according to cultural scientist Katharina Bothe: "Nuclear energy was to be the technology of the future." CSU politician Franz Josef Strauß headed the newly founded Federal Ministry for Nuclear Affairs, and money flowed into the...
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New MUS commander
Longest-serving naval captain retires Klaus Heermeier joined the navy 47 years ago. Now he is handing over his last command to his successor. He was in command of the Naval NCO School for three and a half years. "The navy is the branch of the armed forces that knows how to deal with each other very well," he said, and it was always particularly important to the experienced officer to live a "sanction-free counselling of subordinates and superiors" and to promote his subordinate soldiers as head of department. His time as commander was characterised by Russia's attack on Ukraine and the coronavirus pandemic, among other things. His successor is Captain...
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Long live the king!
The striking Sea King has been flying for the German Navy since 1974. Over the past five decades, the helicopter has proven its flexibility and reliability - especially when rescuing people at sea. Hurricane-like storms with wind speeds of up to 160 kilometres per hour swept in from the Atlantic through the English Channel and piled up waves up to 20 metres high. On the rocky south coast of Cornwall, a house-high surf broke with deafening thunder and roar. The paths and roads in the south-west of the island were largely deserted. All airfields in the south of England had been closed. Even the...
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