Visit by two South Korean naval vessels to the Hanseatic city The training ship ROKS HANSANDO and the supply ship ROKS HWACHEON are visiting the Hanseatic city for the first time and will be offering open ship from 29 to 31 October 2023. Arriving from Halifax/Canada, both South Korean navy ships will set sail on Sunday, 29 October 2023, around...
Painted grey and for years part of the Ready Reserve Force (RRF) of the Maritime Administration (MARAD) of the US Department of Transportation, the "Cape Texas", or in military terms: T-AKR 112, made a modest and inconspicuous appearance. She moored in Kaiserhafen III on the Weser, not far from the still existing Cold War...
While the new super aircraft carrier "Gerald R. Ford" was deployed somewhat hastily to the warlike scenario in the eastern Mediterranean a week ago on its very first foreign voyage, which only began in May, the aircraft carrier "Dwight D. Eisenhower" and its associated strike group had long been planning to relocate to European waters....
Even those who need no more convincing of the flight and manoeuvrability of the single-engine F-35A Lightning II must be allowed to watch this video from this year's Pacific Airshow on 30 September over Huntington Beach in California south of Los Angeles! The U.S. Marine Corps and the U.S. Navy are...
Once again this year, the Armada shows a cross-section of its capabilities in one hundred seconds - short, concise, with strong images. "We are navy" is the title of the world's second-oldest navy with a sense of history and self-confidence (only the Portuguese navy has been in the business a few years longer). Not only because of its 27,000 posts, but also with its tonnage...
In August 2023, the two-week Southeast Asia Cooperation and Training (SEACAT 23) took place in Singapore under the leadership of the US 7th Fleet. The naval ship's command (MSchLtg) from Hamburg took part in the multinational exercise series for the second time in a row. For the first time, however, members of the MSchLtg also gave lectures on maritime issues during the exercise.
Japans Marine übt erstmalig vor den russisch besetzten Kurilen Japan - Sechs Kriegsschiffe der US-amerikanischen, japanischen und kanadischen Marine haben im August eine einwöchige Übung im nordwestlichen Pazifik durchgeführt, die von den russisch kontrollierten Kurilen-Inseln bis in die Gewässer vor Tokio reichte. Multinational und Joint Noble Chinook (Edler Wind) war...
Am 31. August, dem Vorabend des internationalen Antikriegstags, eröffnete der Verein Mahnmal Kilian seine neue Ausstellung „Ein Flakhelfer aus Kiel – Fotos und Erinnerungen von Hans Krohn“ . Im Alter von 15 Jahren wurde in Kiel auch Hans Krohn 1944 zum Marinehelfer eingezogen und am Nordmarksportfeld in der Flakbatterie stationiert....
Deborah G. Rosenblum, Under Secretary of State for Nuclear, Chemical and Biological Defence Programs at the Pentagon, outlined the new course for the modernisation of US nuclear weapons at a press conference on Friday, 25 August 2023. Among other things, Washington wants to replace the Minuteman III with the Sentinel intercontinental ballistic missile system, the Columbia-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN)...
Australia has placed an order with Rheinmetall for the delivery of intelligent naval mines, as the company announced on 29 August. This is a major order with a volume in the three-digit million euro range, with more to follow. Details - such as type and quantity - of the intelligent sea mines, which are categorised as strategic warfare equipment, were not...
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