France's ears in the Baltic Sea
A few hundred metres past each other When the Russian corvette RFS "Stoikiy" (Steregushchiy class) "turned" into the Langelandbelt on Friday last week (we reported) after passing Fehmarn running north-west, the French reconnaissance vessel FS "Dupuy de Lome" (A 759), which was on the opposite course, had a convenient "found meal". The two ships met at the southern end of the island of Langeland at a distance of a few hundred metres. The modern reconnaissance platform, which entered service with the German Navy in 2006 and is 101 metres long and displaces 3,600 tonnes, only had to activate its sensors and hope to detect as many emissions of any kind as possible.
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