On 7 January, the tender WERRA set course for the eastern Mediterranean to relieve the frigate BRANDENBURG as the flagship of Standing NATO Maritime Group Two (SNMG 2). The seventy or so crew members had already been in the currently prescribed quarantine for days. And so the men and women...
The frigate "Hamburg" has been back from the Mediterranean since 20 December 2020. Since the beginning of August, the ship had taken over the second operational contingent of the European Union's Irini foreign mission. Over the past few months, the frigate's main task was to contribute to the implementation of the United Nations Security Council's...
The inspector regularly draws up this policy document, but the directive for 2021 is being issued under unusual circumstances. "The side effects and consequences of the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic have permanently shaken much of what was considered safe and plannable at the beginning of last year," says Krause. The consequences will foreseeably also affect the Bundeswehr and...
107 days in action, 125 interceptions of merchant ships and two boardings. A proud record for preventing the smuggling of weapons to Libya. The ship is expected back in Wilhelmshaven next Sunday, 20 December. Until the next ship patrols off the coast of Libya, a German P-3C maritime patrol aircraft will contribute to the situation picture....
We can only do justice to the future by looking ahead. However, this does not mean forgetting or diminishing the achievements of the past that we have grown fond of. In 1973, the DMI was founded as a sister organisation of the Naval Officers' Association. Just one year later, the previously exclusively internal "MOV-Nachrichten" (MOV News) was expanded to include...
After 4750 nautical miles, the minehunting boat "Sulzbach-Rosenberg" arrived in Kiel's naval port on 15 December. Among other things, the crew took part in Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 - a total of 82 days without going ashore. "They have proven that the pandemic has no impact on the operational readiness of the navy," emphasised frigate captain...
Flotilla Admiral Ralf Kuchler, Commander of Operational Flotilla 2 in Wilhelmshaven, visited Bremen to find out about the work of 20 marines who provide support in the area of contact tracing at the health department. In addition to the tasks to be performed there, Kuchler was also interested in the accommodation and care of the soldiers during their time in the...
There is still 'room for improvement' here too, but the naval aviators and Operational Flotilla 1 are once again one step ahead: the first part of the operational test of the unmanned aerial vehicle "Sea Falcon" on the corvette "Braunschweig" has been completed. It will continue in the new year; there is still a lot of work to be done before it can be deployed ...
...On 15 December, the main contingent of Naval Air Wing 3 "Graf Zeppelin" returned to Germany after more than four months of deployment as part of EU Operation Atalanta. A few days earlier, the mission crew had already landed in Nordholz with the P-3C Orion after an eleven-hour flight from Djibouti. The operational contingent, led by the head of department...
It must be the big time for missile tests. On 23 October, India released one of its 16 KH-35 Uranium from the corvette Prabal (Veer class, Tarantul I) and sank a decommissioned frigate at maximum range (75 miles). Even though the Prabal, an Indian replica, only entered service after 2000, it...
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