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60th Historical Tactical Conference 2020 available online!

60th Historical Tactical Conference 2020 available online!

Gepostet von | 16 Mar 2022 | , , | 2

All presentations with a foreword by Dr Heinrich Walle The 60th Hi Ta Ta in Linstow in January 2020 was exceptional in every respect. As in the six previous years, Vice Admiral Rainer Brinkmann, Deputy Inspector General of the Navy and Commander of the Fleet, opened the 60th Hi Ta Ta. He explained the choice of topics and justified this with the intention of asking what from our recent history is still relevant to our own responsibility today. The thematic canon ranges from the question of what we have inherited from our predecessor navies to the question of...

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Crews leave their ships in Ukraine

Crews leave their ships in Ukraine

Gepostet von | 16 Mar 2022 | , , | 0

Shipowners have started to ask the crews of ships stranded off the Ukrainian coast to leave. M.T. Maritime has evacuated 22 Filipino seafarers from its oil tanker MTM Rio Grande and left the vessel unmanned in the Ukrainian port of Nika-Tera. The crew is currently in Romania awaiting a return flight to the Philippines, the company announced. The Ukrainian ports were closed on 24 February when the Russian troops began their invasion. At least five of the 140 ships stuck in the country's waters were damaged by shelling. One Bangladeshi sailor was killed. As the fierce...

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Exclusion of the Russian maritime register

Exclusion of the Russian maritime register

Gepostet von | 16 Mar 2022 | , , | 0

The members of the International Association of Classification Societies (IACS) have decided to exclude the Russian shipping register from their ranks, citing the impact of allied sanctions. Following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the EU states imposed tough sanctions on the Russian economy, cut off most Russian banks from the international money transfer system and imposed far-reaching sanctions on Russian state-owned companies. The Russian Maritime Register of Shipping (RS Class) was added to the list of EU financial sanctions last week. In addition, the UK - where the IACS is based - has taken action to freeze the assets of all Russian banks, going further and...

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Last corvette laid down

Last corvette laid down

Gepostet von | 15 Mar 2022 | , , | 0

With today's keel laying, the platform production of the last of a total of five new Class 130 corvettes for the German Navy is in full swing. Due to the pandemic, the keel laying ceremony at the Peene shipyard took place in the smallest possible project group in the presence of representatives of the client and the sponsor city. The new corvettes are being built at several shipyards in northern Germany under the leadership of the NVL Group (formerly: Lürssen Defence). At the same time as the keel is being laid at the NVL site in Wolgast, the final forecastle is being built at the GERMAN NAVAL YARDS shipyard in Kiel. The forecastle and stern are then transported to the Blohm+Voss NVL site in Hamburg for joining. In Hamburg, the approximately...

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Where have they gone?

Where have they gone?

Gepostet von | 15 Mar 2022 | , , , , | 0

After reunification in 1990, Germany's navy suddenly had hundreds of boats and ships at its disposal. Many of them were dispensable for political purposes and were sold or utilised worldwide. At the end of the Cold War in 1990, the Bundesmarine was a powerful and operationally ready navy capable of high-intensity combat. The Bundesmarine's mission was based on credible, conventional deterrence against the Warsaw Pact navies in the North Atlantic and in the North and Baltic Seas. At the time, the German Navy comprised around 175 boats and ships as well as 110 Tornado fighter-bombers. With the end of the bloc confrontation, politics and society demanded a clear peace dividend...

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