Vice Admiral Jan Christian Kaack received the "Medal for the support of the Armed Forces of Ukraine" on behalf of the German Navy. This was reported by @deutschemarine on their X-Account. Literally: "For the support of the Ukrainian Armed Forces in the field of mission-orientated...
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A watershed project - for the navy, for procurement, for industry The largest shipbuilding project in the history of the Bundeswehr to date is the class 126 frigate. The Niedersachsen class is a defence project for six ships, with 5.27 billion euros already budgeted for the first four. The "F 126" defence technology report describes what the ship is to be capable of and who is building, equipping and planning it. The operational and security policy derivation as well as the expected utilisation in the navy are explained. With a foreword by the Inspector of the Navy. Report Frigate F126...
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On 18 October 2024, the Russian training ship "Smolny" returned to Kronstadt from a training voyage lasting almost four months.
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The workhorse of the Leibnitz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), the research vessel "Elisabeth Mann Borgese", had sudden technical problems with the steering gear and stabilisers and had to be taken to the Peene shipyard in Wolgast for an unscheduled repair. The ship was built in 1986 at the former Kröger shipyard in Schacht-Audorf near Rendsburg in Schleswig-Holstein and the steering gear is still original. It was necessary to find specialists who were still familiar with the technology, as a retired shipbuilder had already been activated in the past who was still able to use a certain hand-polishing process. The ship was docked for maintenance work at the beginning of the year and it had to be...
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After 58 years in service, the multi-purpose landing craft "Lachs* was decommissioned.
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