Category: Armed Forces

Nordholz naval aviators train submarine hunting in formation

National and alliance defence are once again in focus. As part of the "Vision 22" manoeuvre, which lasted several weeks, several naval vessels trained submarine hunting in the North Sea together with the Nordholzer naval aviators over a period of five days. The focus of the last training days in the Skagerrak sea area was on the testing and further development of modern submarine hunting procedures in co-operation with the various units at sea and from the air. This allowed the crews to advance their formation training and practise in threat scenarios for national and alliance defence. According to confirmed information, there was probably also an incident on board one of the submarines belonging to the Nordholzer Marineflieger-Geschwader 3...

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Frigate "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" returns from Alliance defence mission

On Tuesday, 8 November 2022 at 9.30 a.m., the Brandenburg-class submarine frigate "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" (F123) returned to Wilhelmshaven from a NATO mission. This marks the end of the second deployment this year for the crew and its commander, frigate captain Hendrik Wißler (45). Firstly, they travelled with the NATO Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF) to the Atlantic off the Portuguese coast in summer, before the frigate then travelled in a national formation across the Arctic Circle to Andoya in the already slightly wintry north of Norway. The almost three-month tour was characterised throughout by demanding manoeuvres in a multinational and national framework,...

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EuroNaval: BAE Systems with modularity to success - Adaptable Strike Frigate

BAE Systems used EuroNaval to present the concept of an "adaptable" frigate for the first time. Its key features are modularity and the integration of autonomous systems, which are intended to be deployed in all three dimensions (above, below and on the water). This should enable the frigate to bring combat power and presence to the theatre of operations. It should also be configurable for different scenarios, e.g. as part of an aircraft carrier task force or as a single operating unit. According to BAE, this requires a new approach to the design of warships in order to be able to effectively utilise the systems integrated on board in different command and operational structures. Open architectures are intended to increase the adaptability...

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German Navy contributes to energy security

From a navy press release On Monday, 24 October 2022, the minehunter "Bad Bevensen" and the minesweeper "Bad Rappenau" departed from the naval base in Kiel to actively participate in the search for contaminated sites in the sea area off Lubmin (east of Greifswald). The construction of an LNG terminal is planned there. The two mine countermeasure units will search the seabed to determine the absence of explosive ordnance. The units of the 3rd mine detection squadron and the sea battalion mine divers on board are specially equipped and trained for this task. By detecting contaminated sites, they will contribute to the German Navy's energy security in Germany. Background The...

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George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group under NATO command

The George H.W. Bush Carrier Strike Group was placed under NATO command on Friday as part of the Neptune Strike 2022 exercise series, the Pentagon's deputy press secretary announced. The exercise officially began Friday at Strike Force NATO headquarters in Oeiras, Portugal, according to a press release from the U.S. 6th Fleet. In addition to the US, Albania, Canada, Croatia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Italy, Lithuania, North Macedonia, Poland, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Turkey and the United Kingdom will also participate. It was not clear from the press release what the carrier battle group will be doing in detail as part of the exercise, apart from conducting...

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