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140 years of the Fr. Lürssen shipyard

140 years of the Fr. Lürssen shipyard

Posted by | 25 Nov 2020 | , , | 0

Bremen shipbuilder celebrates anniversary - The family business Fr. Lürssen Werft GmbH & Co. KG celebrated the 140th anniversary of its foundation in June. Within four generations, the Lürssen family has transformed a small boatbuilding workshop into a world-class shipbuilding company in northern Germany, which today, with over 1,000 highly qualified employees at the Bremen site alone, is not only one of the world's leading suppliers of yachts, but also one of the recognised system houses for the construction of naval vessels. The foundation stone for the shipyard was laid by the then 24-year-old boat builder Friedrich Lürßen on 27 June 1875. Since then, the Fr. Lürssen shipyard has built more than 13,000 boats and...

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France gives the Germans déjà vu in Australia

France gives the Germans déjà vu in Australia

Posted by | 25 Nov 2020 | , , | 0

The contract for the 37 billion euro submarine project was awarded to DCNS "DCNS of France has been selected as our preferred international partner for the design of 12 future submarines; the commercial terms are subject to further discussion." Good news for the structurally weak region, which Australia's Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull announced on 26 April against the backdrop of the South Australian shipyard ASC in Adelaide, but bitter pills for the German and Japanese competitors. Shortly before the general election scheduled for 2 July, the Prime Minister was able to promise that "this 50 billion [Australian] dollar investment will directly create 1,100 Australian jobs and a further 1,700 jobs in the...

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The Russian Navy in the Mediterranean

The Russian Navy in the Mediterranean

Posted by | 25 Nov 2020 | , | 0

Presence without "power projection" The very term "Mediterranean region" indicates that maritime influences are also prevalent in North Africa and Southern Europe. Maritime trade has dominated since ancient times, and it was not only with the opening of the Suez Canal that the Eastern Mediterranean became a centre for oriental trade. To this day, the region is considered a "strategic bridge" to the Middle East and beyond to South (Asia). Bosphorus eye of the needle Russia's Tsar Peter I, who founded the Russian navy in the Baltic Sea at the beginning of the 18th century, also endeavoured to gain maritime influence in the south of his empire. He sought access to the Mediterranean via the Black Sea, but as early as the...

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The Egyptian Navy

The Egyptian Navy

Posted by | 25 Nov 2020 | , , | 0

In eternal competition with the army and air force 3,000 years before the turn of time, one of the early advanced civilisations emerged on the Nile, but the Egyptians were initially focused on their inland: "Maritime" activities - both military and mercantile - only took place on the Nile. It was only with the expansion of regional influence that the open sea also gained in importance. Pharaoh Thutmose III (1486-1425 BC) finally founded the first navy and had numerous ships built at a shipyard in Memphis, which was huge by the standards of the time, to support his campaigns into Babylonia. However, these were mostly only used to transport troops, horses and material across the eastern...

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Wake-up call for the navy

Wake-up call for the navy

Posted by | 24 Nov 2020 | , , | 0

Poland's new naval strategy A maritime strategy is a comprehensive orientation of all aspects of national power to achieve specific political goals in a given situation through a certain degree of control at sea (John Hattendorf). National naval strategies provide important guidance for the concrete planning of naval procurement. At the same time, published naval strategies are important instruments of deterrence, as they inform friend and foe of the intentions involved. During the Cold War, the Baltic Sea could be seen as an important battlefield in a future confrontation between NATO and the Warsaw Pact. Since the 1990s, the Baltic NATO members and their partners have viewed the Baltic Sea as a...

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