Category: Armed Forces

Flagship "Grömitz" back from the Aegean

Low number and availability of units necessitates the use of minehunting boats as command and control platforms From a press release by Rostock Naval Command: On Thursday, 4 July 2024 at 10 a.m., the minehunting boat "Grömitz", which belongs to the 3rd Minehunting Squadron, will return to its home port of Kiel from a six-month deployment to the NATO Aegean Support Mission. Over the past six months, the Kiel-based boat has been the command platform and the German contribution to NATO's Standing NATO Maritime Group 2 and the NATO Aegean Support Mission. The task of the "Grömitz" was to provide the situational awareness required to control the Aegean in order to prevent illegal refugee flows...

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Traditionssegler bei der Kieler Woche

Marineeinheiten aus aller Welt, Sportboote, Kreuzfahrtschiffe, Regatten, Prominenz aus Sport, Politik und Gesellschaft: aber was wäre die Kieler Woche ohne Traditionssegler? Es sind die wahren Helden der Sportseeschifffahrt: Eigner, Skipper, Bootsleute und Vereine, die die alten Schiffe am Leben halten – und nicht nur Schwimmen ist damit gemeint – sondern sie der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich machen und dadurch etwas Geschichte in die Gegenwart holen. Es sind die alten Traditionen und handwerklichen Fertigkeiten, die Leidenschaft und die Erzählungen hinter alten Schotten, Hellegatts und Bilgen, die das historische Kulturgut so faszinierend macht. Allen Widrigkeiten zum Trotz, die Schiffe in Bewegung zu halten,...

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Helicopter demonstration during the Kieler Woche

The "King" shows what it can do once again! It is always impressive to see what the good old SeaKing - or Mk 41 multi-purpose transport helicopter - can do for visitors to Kieler Woche. Whether it's lifting people out of the water or off the ship or dropping off rescue teams: when the unmistakable sound of the "King's" turbine announces its approach, everyone's head goes up. But most of the time it wasn't there, as you can see from the pictures, you were close to this #SeakingSaturday - so old and still fascinating. For the last few months, this SeaKing, photographed here, has been...

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