On 17 October, the naval aviators from Nordholz supported the German Maritime Search and Rescue Service (DgzRS) in a SAR mission. A seriously ill crew member of the Oslo ferry "Color Magic" was to be rescued by the sea rescuers from the DGzRS station in Laboe and was taken directly to hospital in close cooperation with the German Navy's naval aviators.
The International Maritime Bureau's (IMB) third quarter report is the second in a row to show the lowest level of piracy and armed robbery at sea in three decades. The IMB is a London-based division of the International Chamber of Commerce (ICC). Its director, Michael Howlett, praised and welcomed...
Diehl Defence, HENSOLDT and Airbus deliver deficits to NATO Diehl Defence has delivered a combat unit of the IRIS-T SLM air defence system to Ukraine with HENSOLDT and Airbus. The contract was signed in June 2022 and, as Diehl announced in a press release, further IRIS-T SLM combat systems will follow as soon as the contract is signed.
A section of the Nord Stream 1 gas pipeline in the Baltic Sea at least 50 metres long is missing, the Swedish daily newspaper Expressen reported on Tuesday after taking what it said were the first publicly published pictures of the damage. Swedish police and the public prosecutor's office suspect that the leaks, which began on 26 September,...
The managing directors of the four companies involved in the development of the European Patrol Corvette signed a preliminary consortium agreement on the opening day of EuroNaval, 18 October 2022. According to Naviris, the agreement is intended to regulate the implementation of the tender. The agreement will enable the consortium consisting of Fincantieri, Naval Group and Navantia...
Sweden does not share findings The German Navy's minehunting boat "Dillingen", the multi-purpose vessel "Mittelgrund" and the German Federal Police patrol vessel "Potsdam" have completed their mission in the Baltic Sea and are back in their home harbours. The joint operation following the request for administrative assistance from the Federal Police focussed on the leaks north-east of the Baltic Sea island of Bornholm. There were...
The Bulgarian counterintelligence service DANS (State Agency for National Security) in Sofia is investigating Russian allegations that the lorry blown up on the Crimean bridge came from that country. The previous Sunday, the head of the Russian investigative committee, Alexander Bastrykin, announced at a meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin that...
Acting Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson on Monday rejected Russia's demands for transparency in the Swedish investigation into the gas leaks in the Baltic Sea last week. Russia had sent a letter to the Swedish government asking it to investigate the gas leak. This came after Sweden rejected Russia's repeated demands for more...
The German Federal Public Prosecutor General has opened an investigation into alleged "anti-constitutional sabotage" following reports of leaks from the Nord Stream 1 and 2 pipelines, which are widely attributed to Russia. The spokesperson for the public prosecutor's office announced on Monday that an investigation had been launched against persons unknown. The Attorney General only intervenes in special...
The Neue Züricher Zeitung of Tuesday, 11.10.2022, has analysed the missile attack on Ukraine by Russian troops in an interesting article, with which the Kremlin is obviously retaliating for the sabotage attack on the Crimean bridge near Kerch, which has not yet been attributed to Ukraine, and comes to very revealing assessments, which are published here in...
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