An announcement published on the online platform for public procurement, TED, in mid-July shows that the project to salvage and destroy old munitions in the North and Baltic Seas is picking up speed. Apparently at a German pace. Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke announced an immediate programme at a kick-off conference on 17 February 2023...
Japan's navy exercises off the Russian-occupied Kuril Islands for the first time Japan - Six warships from the US, Japanese and Canadian navies conducted a week-long exercise in the northwest Pacific Ocean in August, stretching from the Russian-controlled Kuril Islands to the waters off Tokyo. Multinational and Joint Noble Chinook (Noble Wind) was...
From a press release by Rostock Naval Command This year's major maritime manoeuvre Northern Coasts (NOCO), one of the most important multinational exercises to strengthen cooperation between the naval forces of Germany and its partners in the Baltic Sea region, will take place from 9 to 23 September 2023. This year, the German Navy is participating with DEU MARFOR for...
A great success, also in terms of donations! It was to be a wonderful evening. A charity concert was to take place in July against the unique historical backdrop of the Mürwik Naval School, the mother house of German naval officers. But the approaching hurricane worried the organisers and the concert was cancelled. And now finally...
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)...
[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.16" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" custom_padding="|||" global_colors_info="{}" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.21.0" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat" global_colors_info="{}"] Today, 29 August 2023, the second STS boat for the Wehrtechnische Dienststelle 71 in Eckernförde was christened "Holstein" at the TAMSEN MARITIM shipyard in Rostock. Was TAMSEN MARITIM...
From a Bundeswehr press release
...[et_pb_section fb_built="1" _builder_version="4.16" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_row _builder_version="4.16" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat" global_colors_info="{}"][et_pb_column type="4_4" _builder_version="4.16" custom_padding="|||" global_colors_info="{}" custom_padding__hover="|||"][et_pb_text _builder_version="4.16" background_size="initial" background_position="top_left" background_repeat="repeat" global_colors_info="{}"]The search and rescue pilots' meeting took place at the naval air base in Nordholz from 24 August to 28 August 2023. The fly-in on Thursday already gave an idea of what visitors to this year's event can expect....
The crude oil tanker LUCIA (approx. 107,000 tonnes, Palau flag) was unloaded off the Mediterranean coast of North Africa after lying in the roadstead for four months. The approximately 100,000 tonnes of Urals crude oil, which was originally loaded in the Russian Baltic port of Ust-Luga (west of St. Petersburg), was taken over by the Vietnamese-flagged TIBURON (approx. 110,000 tonnes). Sanctions regime With this "sea supply manoeuvre"...
Iranian news agencies are reporting that the Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC) has been armed with long-range drones and missiles. Armament The Iranian state news agency IRNA reported that various types of drones, cruise missiles and ballistic missiles with a range of 300 to 1,000 kilometres have been added to the armament of the Revolutionary Guards. This is Iran's response...
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