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Three carrier groups in the Mediterranean

Three carrier groups in the Mediterranean

Gepostet von | 9 Feb 2022 | , , | 0

The question "what comes after Neptune Strike" is answered We are looking spellbound at the East-West crisis in Ukraine. And what is NATO doing? Three different NATO carrier groups are operating together in the Mediterranean, impressively demonstrating the Alliance's naval power. The Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (HSTCSG) is taking part in the latest exercises, working together for two days with the French Task Force 473, which is stationed on the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, and an Italian battle group around the aircraft carrier Cavour. Neptune Strike 22 (marineforum reported) also involved the Cavour Strike Group and the amphibious command ship USS Blue Ridge (LCC-19), which...

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Dragon taming for beginners

Dragon taming for beginners

Gepostet von | 9 Feb 2022 | , , | 0

With its drive for expansion, China is turning more and more nations against itself and fuelling fear in the region. This leads to the formation of security co-operations. China's aggressive expansionist policy is increasingly turning the Indo-Pacific region into the theatre of a global political conflict that is primarily maritime in nature. In the South China Sea, from which China wants to push the USA out in the long term, there is a constant risk of a military incident between US ships during their regular Freedom of Operations missions (Fonops) and Chinese ships. For the USA, the Pacific region with East Asia is the focus of its geostrategic security policy. As a guarantor of stability and security, it has traditionally enjoyed strategic supremacy there, which...

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CO 2 pollution: Rotterdam is the front runner

CO 2 pollution: Rotterdam is the front runner

Gepostet von | 9 Feb 2022 | , , | 0

In European comparison: Hamburg in third place! Transport & Environment (T&E), a non-profit organisation that campaigns for clean transport, has published a ranking of European ports by carbon emissions. This shows that ports need to do more to make shipping cleaner. Rotterdam was categorised as Europe's port with the highest carbon dioxide emissions. The port of Rotterdam, Europe's busiest seaport, emits almost 14 million tonnes of CO2 every year, putting it on a par with Europe's fifth largest industrial polluter - the Weisweiler coal-fired power plant in Germany, according to a new T&E study assessing the carbon emissions of ports. Antwerp...

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USA offers Aegis offshore inspections to Russians

USA offers Aegis offshore inspections to Russians

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Transparency to reduce tensions in Ukraine. To ease tensions over Russia's military build-up in Ukraine, NATO and US negotiators have offered Moscow the opportunity to inspect two ballistic missile defence sites to prove that the alliance has not deployed offensive missiles. (marineforum reported several times). In return for the insight into the Aegis Ashore sites in Romania and Poland, Moscow is expected to offer similar transparency for two ground-based missile defence bases selected by the US. The US clarifies that no Tomahawk land-based missiles are deployed. Both sites have the same aerial reconnaissance radar and Mk-41 vertical launch system as...

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Argentina also defends itself against Chinese fishermen

Argentina also defends itself against Chinese fishermen

Gepostet von | 9 Feb 2022 | , , | 0

New French-built patrol vessels deployed The Argentine Navy has deployed its two newest offshore patrol vessels (OPVs), ARA Bouchard (P-51) and ARA Piedrabuena (P-52), to monitor an international fishing fleet travelling in the South Atlantic near the country's economic zone (EEZ). While there are no confirmed reports that these vessels are engaged in illegal, unregulated or unreported fishing, it is suspected that this is or will soon be the case. Bouchard and Piedrabuena, along with a Beechcraft B-200 Super King Air, were monitoring vessels travelling through the Strait of Magellan to the...

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