Copenhagen - at whose gates and in whose bays Russian ships from the dubious Shadow Fleet and the civil-military Syria/Mediterranean Express parade - reaches into the state coffers and releases funds for an equipment programme for the Royal Navy. Their equipment is inevitably ageing and is becoming increasingly outdated.
As a first step, half a billion euros are already being spent on better protection for vulnerable underwater infrastructure in the form of a new class of ship specifically for these tasks.
In addition, four new vessels are to be built as platforms for monitoring compliance with environmental regulations in such a way that the approaches to the Baltic Sea can also be mined at any time. Further funds will then be used to replace obsolete "home defence cutters" with flying and floating drones, which will enable more complete surveillance of the Danish sea area from the Skagerrak to east of Bornholm.
However, the good old "home defence cutter" for patrol tasks, search and rescue, coastal logistics and other civil-military tasks in the Danish archipelago is far from obsolete - as a central point of the programme, the boats of the MHV 800 and 850 classes are to be replaced regionally by 21 newbuildings from small shipyards.
In another part of the plan, decisions are to be made on air defence frigates, Arctic guard ships and manned/unmanned maritime reconnaissance. Even if the image of the brave 100-tonne MHV in front of the bow of an 800,000-tonne tanker remains in the mind - the concept, the network and the means behind it are important.
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