The Arctic has increasingly become the focus of public attention in recent years. But even in German-speaking countries, it is no longer climate change alone that characterises interest in the High North. There is an increasing number of reports and features from the High North, in which new harbours, shipping routes, c...
The rejuvenation of the Russian Federation's conventional diesel-electric submarines is slowly nearing completion. The Kilo class (project 877/636) already comprises 24 boats with a fairly equal distribution between the three fleets, with the first boats already looking back on forty years of service. At the end of October, the "Volkov", the second boat of the third...
On 6 October, the Russian Navy released the Tsirkon hypersonic cruise missile from aboard the frigate ADMIRAL GORSCHKOW (Project 22350) for the first time and fired it at a maximum distance of 450 kilometres at eight times the speed of sound at a target in the Barents Sea. The entire sequence lasted less than five minutes. This was...
Presence without "power projection" The very term "Mediterranean region" indicates that maritime influences are also prevalent in North Africa and Southern Europe. Maritime trade has dominated since ancient times, and it was not only with the opening of the Suez Canal that the eastern Mediterranean became a centre for oriental trade. To this day, the region is considered a "strategic bridge"...
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...
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