Category: Armed Forces

NATO ends Neptune Strike 2022

"Neptune Strike 22" took place from 24 January to 4 February 2022. This was a NATO activity that centred on the interoperability of naval and air forces. Over 20 nations took part. The theatre of operations extended from the Mediterranean to Central Europe. Neptune Strike 22 was characterised by the temporary subordination of a US aircraft carrier battle group under NATO command. This exercise marked the long-planned integration of command and control of the Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (CSG) into the NATO alliance. The operation began on 24 January from the Adriatic Sea and...

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Berlin on the road!

The task force provider "Berlin" has left Wilhelmshaven The # task force provider #Berlin was unable to depart from #Wilhelmshaven as planned on 1 February to take part in #SNMG1. 14 crew members tested positive for coronavirus in a PCR test. In the meantime, the EGV "Berlin" has cast off today at 2.00 pm. On board is the command staff of the association. The crew members who tested positive for coronavirus have been disembarked and isolated. Marineforum wishes you a safe journey!...

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Aircraft accident on the Carl Vinson

The accident occurred on Monday in the South China Sea. The F-35 pilot was injured but is in a stable condition, the Navy announced. He was ejected from the aircraft after the failed landing on the deck of the "Carl Vinson". Six other crew members were also injured. The Navy did not provide any information about their condition, only that three of the injured were flown to Manila. The F-35C Lightning II fighter jet belongs to Carrier Air Wing 2 and landed after a routine flight; the pilot was rescued by an on-board helicopter. There was also no information on the cause of the crash. The "Carl Vinson" and the "Abraham Lincoln"...

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Russian naval manoeuvre also in the Black Sea

Following manoeuvres by the Baltic Fleet in the Baltic Sea and the Russian Northern Fleet in the Barents Sea, units of the Black Sea Fleet have now also left their bases for exercises, according to the Southern Military District of the Russian Federation. Here, too, more than twenty ships and boats from the ports of Sevastopol and Novorossiysk on the Black Sea and from Kerch and Rostov-on-Don at both ends of the Sea of Azov are to form formations close to the Russian coast, but also for further-reaching projects (beyond the Bosporus?). From almost every one of the units stationed in this region...

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Daily command with a clear message

Rear Admiral Jan Christian Kaack is acting inspector of the German Navy His order of the day on Monday refers to the Naval Compass guide, a work compiled over the past four years on the self-image of the members of the armed forces: "We serve Germany. Our state, our fatherland, the people in our country, and people beyond our country. Faithfully and bravely. Worldwide. Every day. We are the instrument and arm of our state. Our uniform symbolises this. We are aware that our appearance and actions express the state's self-image and political will. With the way we are and the way we act, we express...

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