Category: Security policy

Frigate "Brandenburg" returns from the Mediterranean

Frigate "Brandenburg" returns from the Mediterranean

Gepostet von | 12 Jul 2024 | , , , | 0

On Saturday, 13 July 2024, the frigate "Brandenburg" is expected back in Wilhelmshaven from the UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) mission in the Mediterranean. Under the command of frigate captain Andreas Scheiba, the crew left Wilhelmshaven in March 2024 to assist with maritime surveillance off the Lebanese coast and training the Lebanese navy as part of the UNIFIL mission. Numerous manoeuvres took place with international partners. Furthermore, the Lebanese armed forces were trained as part of the mission and there was an exchange between crew members of the frigate and their comrades from the Lebanese Navy stationed on the mainland.

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Over 6 months ....

Over 6 months ....

Gepostet von | 11 Jul 2024 | , , | 0

Tender "Donau" returns to Kiel Tender "Donau" is expected back in its home port of Kiel on 12 July 2024. Over the past six months, the tender has made the German contribution to one of NATO's standing formations. The tender was also part of the Very High Readiness Joint Task Force Maritime (VJTF (M)) for the North and Baltic Seas. Under the command of Corvette Captain Stefan Huber, the Kiel-based tender and its 68-strong crew have experienced a lot over the past six and a half months. "The intensity of the various manoeuvres we have completed in the last few months has been enormous. And that was...

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The German "Seals" turn 60

The German "Seals" turn 60

Gepostet von | 11 Jul 2024 | , , , | 0

Today, on 11 July 2024, the Naval Special Forces Command is celebrating its sixtieth anniversary. With a roll call and a dynamic demonstration in the presence of the President of the Schleswig-Holstein State Parliament, Kristina Herbst, the Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein, Daniel Günther, as well as numerous guests from society, politics and the military, the combat swimmers will face the public, which does not happen that often. They have been around since 1958, when the aim was to prepare back-up for amphibious landing operations in the rear of attacking Eastern Bloc units. The combat swimmers evolved from small combat units and the naval task forces of the Second World War. The training was modelled on French elite units. In August 1959, the...

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Indo-Pacific task force: We are very prominently recognised

Indo-Pacific task force: We are very prominently recognised

Gepostet von | 9 Jul 2024 | , , , | 0

Marineforum conducted an interview with Flotilla Admiral Axel Schulz, commander of Flotilla 2, also CTG 500.01 and thus commander of the German Navy's Indo-Pacific task force. The Navy's IPD24, Pacific Waves 24, has completed its first third. With the start of RIMPAC, the project is entering another, operationally more demanding phase. How do you rate the journey so far? All I can say is: "Once in a Lifetime"! A great endeavour. And I am proud and happy to be able to lead this organisation. I would like to avoid stringing together superlatives, but the hospitality in Halifax was outstanding as always, and the opportunity to be in the parade line-up for the...

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Rügen: Green light for gas pipeline - court rejects lawsuits

Rügen: Green light for gas pipeline - court rejects lawsuits

Gepostet von | 9 Jul 2024 | , , , | 0

The Federal Administrative Court in Leipzig has dismissed several appeals by Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) and the Nature and Biodiversity Conservation Union (NABU) against the operating licence for the gas pipeline between the port of Mukran and Lubmin. This means that the approximately 50-kilometre-long gas pipeline operated by Gascade, which connects the LNG terminal in Sassnitz-Mukran to the gas pipeline network in Lubmin to the east of Greifswald, is expected to go into operation as planned in mid-May. Specifically, the environmental organisations wanted the planning approval decision issued by the Stralsund Mining Authority last year to be revoked. They had criticised the pipeline on two points in particular: firstly, nature conservation concerns in the sensitive ecosystem of the Greifswald Bodden were not taken into...

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