Category: Security policy

Four years in the theatre of operations - the British landing ship Cardigan Bay returns

Four years in the theatre of operations - the British landing ship Cardigan Bay returns

Posted by | 2 Jun 2021 | , , , | 0

Nach vier Jahren kehrt das britische Landungsschiff Cardigan Bay zurück in seine Heimat. Schiff und Besatzung waren im Rahmen eines Forward Deployments zusammen mit vier Minensuchern in Bahrein stationiert. Während ihrer Zeit im Persischen Golf diente die zur Royal Fleet Auxiliary (RFA) gehörende Cardigan Bay als Führungs- und Versorgungsschiff und nahm dieser Zeit auch an verschiedenen Manövern teil. Zuletzt war dies bei Artemis Trident der Fall, einer gemeinsamen Übung mit französischen und amerikanischen Einheiten, die alle zwei Jahre stattfindet. Neben der dabei im Mittelpunkt stehenden Minenjagd gab es in diesem Jahr dabei Einlagen zur Selbstverteidigung gegenüber Angriffen aus der...

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AKK besucht USS Charleston

AKK besucht USS Charleston

Posted by | 31. May 2021 | , , , | 0

Verteidigungsministerin Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer hat am vergangenen Wochenende die US-Insel Guam besucht. Auf der Marinebasis von Apra Harbor ließ sie sich über die USS Charleston führen, ein Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) der US Navy. Sie nutzte die Gelegenheit auch, um mit Soldaten ins Gespräch zu kommen. Kramp-Karrenbauer befindet sich derzeit auf einer Asienreise, die sie bereits nach Südkorea geführt hat. Während es für die Ministerin eine der letzten großen Dienstreisen sein könnte, war es für den seit Januar zur Verfügung stehenden Airbus A 350 der Flugbereitschaft eine Premiere: Der erste Delegationsflug auf Langstreckendistanz. Guam ist ein wichtiger Außenposten für die...

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Werra is coming back!

Werra is coming back!

Posted by | 29 May 2021 | , , , | 0

It was a cold Friday with temperatures around zero degrees when the Werra left Kiel at the beginning of January. Under her commander, Corvette Captain Robert Lehmann, 61 male and 10 female soldiers took their leave on board the tender and set course for the Mediterranean. As part of the Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 (SNMG 2), they took on a variety of tasks in the Aegean over the following four months. The focus was on gathering information to build up a picture of the situation and cooperating with the Greek and Turkish coastguards and the European border protection agency Frontex. In order to establish a direct link to the partners on land...

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Holland in the Caribbean

Holland in the Caribbean

Posted by | 27 May 2021 | , , , , | 0

Another of the country's warships is now travelling in the sea area around the Netherlands Antilles. HNLMS Holland was welcomed with 21 gun salutes from Fort Krommelijn on Curacao. The Holland is being deployed as a so-called station ship and will remain on site for several months. This position was last filled by the Groningen, a sister ship of the Holland, which returned to its home port of Den Helder in mid-January. She had to abandon her mission in the Caribbean prematurely because urgent repairs were needed to the starboard shaft. As another ship was not available for this task at short notice, the function of the station ship had to be taken over by...

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Russian ships practise in the Barents Sea

Russian ships practise in the Barents Sea

Posted by | 25 May 2021 | , , , | 0

Together with the nuclear-powered guided missile cruiser Peter the Great (Project 1144), more than ten Russian units have been exercising in the Barents Sea. The minesweepers, submarines, submarine hunters and missile ships of the Northern Fleet trained a range of different scenarios under the command of the Deputy Commander of the Northern Fleet, Vice Admiral Oleg Golubev. After leaving the Severomorsk base, they first had to cross a fairway through simulated minefields and fend off attacks from attackers in speedboats. The exercises on the high seas then centred on submarine hunting exercises, in which Ka-27 helicopters with their APM-73V-MAD submersible sonar system were also deployed. In support of this, an Ilyushin Il-38 submarine fighter...

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