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South Korean Navy in Hamburg

South Korean Navy in Hamburg

Posted by | 20 Oct 2023 | , , , | 0

Visit by two South Korean naval vessels to the Hanseatic city The training ship ROKS HANSANDO and the supply vessel 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 moor at the Überseebrücke at around 10.00 a.m. on Sunday, 29 October 2023. The ROKS HANSANDO is a training ship that was commissioned in 2021, is 142 metres long and 25 metres wide and has hybrid propulsion. In addition to a regular crew of around 120, there can be up to 300 student officers on board. All cadets are in their third...

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Bremerhaven: T-AKR 112 "Cape Texas" is the old "Reichenfels"

Bremerhaven: T-AKR 112 "Cape Texas" is the old "Reichenfels"

Posted by | 17 Oct 2023 | , , , , | 1

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, appeared modest and inconspicuous. She had moored in Kaiserhafen III on the Weser, not far from the terminal of the US armed forces in the north of Bremerhaven, which is still well known from the Cold War era. Coming from Charleston (South Carolina), she had delivered a number of military vehicles to Europe, the final destination of which was not specified but should not be difficult to guess in the current situation. The classically cut, elegant and dignified appearance of the...

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Aircraft carrier group "Eisenhower" on its way to Europe

Aircraft carrier group "Eisenhower" on its way to Europe

Posted by | 16 Oct 2023 | , , , | 7

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 trip abroad, which only began in May, a transfer to European waters had long been planned for the aircraft carrier "Dwight D. Eisenhower" and its associated strike group. And yet: with the second carrier group heading for Europe, the USA is once again sending a signal to the states surrounding Israel not to start an additional dispute in support of Hamas and Hezbollah troops. "DON'T" - as the US Secretary of State just said it in the shortest possible form. The...

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Pacific Airshow: Flight demonstration of the F-35 Lightning II

Pacific Airshow: Flight demonstration of the F-35 Lightning II

Posted by | 9 Oct 2023 | , , , | 0

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 more likely to be flying the F-35B and F-35C, but they are the same aircraft types. The US Air Force pilot, Major Kristin Wolfe, flies this aircraft as if the Swiss physicist and mathematician Daniel Bernoulli (1700 - 1782) had just retired. The high humidity also contributes to the flow of air through the fuselage...

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We are defending Spain. From the sea.

We are defending Spain. From the sea.

Posted by | 5 Oct 2023 | , , , | 0

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 service posts, but also because of its tonnage, it is the fifth strongest naval force in NATO. Even within Spain, the navy is considered to be the best-equipped armed force on the Iberian Peninsula. Aircraft carriers with helicopters and VSTOL jets, amphibious landing ships with matching land combat forces, frigates and the latest submarines. Well - not superlative, not much of anything, but...

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