Important decisions made in the alliance - In the fourth quarter of last year, two important decisions were made - largely unnoticed by the public - that will shape the future of sea-based air defence in NATO Europe. The following article deals with the selection decision of the German Armed Forces Inspector General regarding the successor to the long-range radar on...
We have carefully read the article on the 59th Naval Historical-Tactical Conference in the current issue of MarineForum. We were particularly interested in the reference to the presentation "Cross-shots - lateral thinking - change of course: Jimmy Mann's Sylt fleet": "Vice Admiral Hans-Joachim Mann took on a new role in 1991 at the beginning of his assignment as eighth...
It was 25 years ago these days that the German Navy evacuated the German Somalia Support Unit from Mogadishu. This army unit had previously supported the United Nations Operation UNOSOM II in Somalia. It was the first major foreign deployment for the army, which came to an abrupt end when the...
Excerpts from the "Preliminary conceptual guidelines for the future capability profile of the Bundeswehr", which is to be adopted vis-à-vis NATO by 2032 (F.A.Z. PLUS article "Up to the stars" from 18 April), are rushing through the press. This is a non-binding declaration of intent; nonetheless, it leads to a - justifiable -...
A guest article by Raimund Wallner On 3 February 2017, the Norwegian government announced that Germany, and not France, had been selected as the strategic partner for the submarine project to ensure the succession of the ULA class. The aim of the decision is the joint procurement and lifetime management of identical submarines based on the German Class 212A...
by Patrick Mundstock, the winner of our essay competition: More than 95 per cent of global international trade passes through the world's seas and oceans. Every year, around 47,000 merchant ships from all over the world travel on them, transporting around seven billion tonnes of economic goods, and the trend is rising. Ever bigger, ever faster and ever...
In July 2016, the renowned "Center for Strategic International Studies" (CSIS) in Washington D.C., founded by Admiral Arleigh Burke, published the study "Undersea Warfare in Northern Europe". Downloading and reading the almost 50-page work is well worth the time. In the acknowledgements, the attentive reader learns that "experts from Finland, Poland,...
[et_pb_section][et_pb_row][et_pb_column type="4_4"][et_pb_text] Fleet shrinks to historic low Shortly before the turn of the year, the German Navy shrank by a further five units. Last week, two tankers, two speedboats and a minesweeper were decommissioned. This reduces the number of floating units in the German Navy to 62 - a...
The German Navy is pooling its infantry forces in a new but historically unprecedented organisation! As a result of the realignment of the Bundeswehr decided in 2010, the specialised infantry forces of the German Navy will be combined in a naval battalion from 1 April 2014. Specifically, this involves the naval protection forces, the boarding forces and...
This is followed by the second-placed entry in the DMI essay competition by the team of authors Oberleutnant zur See M.Sc. Benedict Warkus and Oberleutnant zur See M.A. Kian Kottke:
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