Russia must expand its production capacities for icebreakers if it wants to achieve its goals for expanding trade via the Arctic North-East Passage, as Russia lacks ice-class vessels. Alternative route Russia has been planning for some time to expand the North-East Passage as an alternative to the Suez Canal and to open up trade via this northern route as early as next...
Russia - The 18-boat construction programme of Project 22800, the KARAKURT class (60 m, 800 t), currently stands at 16 units laid down, four of which are in service, two are undergoing trials, five have been launched and five are under construction. After one each at the end of 2018, 2019 and 2020, the...
With the EU-funded Miricle project, European navies will benefit from high interoperability and new capabilities in the field of mine defence. Naval Group Belgium plays a key role in this. The Mine Risk Clearance for Europe project, Miricle for short, which is continuing in the shadow of Russia's unexpected attack on Ukraine,...
Der Rohöltanker LUCIA (ca. 107.000 Tonnen, Flagge Palau) wurde vor der Mittelmeerküste Nordafrikas nach viermonatiger Liegezeit auf Reede entladen. Die rund 100.000 Tonnen Ural-Rohöl, die ursprünglich im russischen Ostseehafen Ust-Luga (westlich von Sankt Petersburg) geladen wurden, übernahm die unter vietnamesischer Flagge fahrende TIBURON (ca. 110.000 Tonnen). Sanktionsregime Mit diesem „Seeversorgungsmanöver“...
At first glance, the Russian-Ukrainian war appears to be a purely land-based conflict. However, the epochal conflict also has a maritime dimension. When Russian President Putin brought the "Great" or state war back to Europe on 24 February 2022, a new era began, and not just in European history. Chancellor...
The European Union is planning to lay a new 1,100-kilometre data cable in the Black Sea in order to bypass the existing terrestrial connection (fibre optic) to Georgia, which is considered "unsafe" and "unstable" because it runs through Russia. Such a connection was already being considered before Russia's invasion of Ukraine,...
Should there be an armed conflict with Russia, the question arises as to where. Is the Baltic Sea still a suitable area for this? With Finland's accession to NATO and the hoped-for accession of Sweden in the near future, the military geography in the Baltic Sea region is changing significantly. Spatial organisation, command structure and the...
The war in Ukraine has shaken our country out of a deep security-policy slumber. In the course of this awakening, we are rediscovering a self-evident fact that had been forgotten in the meantime: armed forces must be ready for deployment and combat and be able to wage war if deterrence fails. NATO has already reacted; deterrence and defence are the central elements of the NATO...
The first source of advice on all maritime issues, a bridge between science, practice and politics with a comprehensive view of the sea and the world: who else in Germany fulfils this role if not the navy? Germany has become increasingly maritime over the past 30 years - with its economy, but also in its foreign policy....
"Not during our watch!" was the decisive reaction of the inspector of the navy to the invasion of Ukraine by Russia in violation of international law. What does this mean in concrete terms for those on watch on board? Just a few days after the turn of the year, the frigate Mecklenburg-Vorpommern set sail to take part in the task force for the third...
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