{"id":2521,"date":"2018-06-27T09:16:12","date_gmt":"2018-06-27T07:16:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/meerverstehen.net\/?p=2521"},"modified":"2021-01-27T16:13:43","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T15:13:43","slug":"federal-police-lake-from-40-mm-to-57-mm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/bundespolizei-see-von-40-mm-auf-57-mm\/","title":{"rendered":"#me understand: Federal Police Sea: From 40 mm to 57 mm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>How times change! In the days of the East-West confrontation, the seagoing units of the Federal Border Guard had eight boats in the Baltic Sea that were equipped with 40 mm guns. In the event of a conflict, they were to be transferred from the Baltic Sea to the German Bight to escort incoming Atlantic convoys on the final stretch. The end of the Cold War and the need for the peace dividend led to the Federal Police Sea being \"demilitarised\": The 40 mm Bofors were disarmed.<\/strong><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In the context of increasing international operations and the maritime fight against terrorism and piracy, the question repeatedly arises as to whether the seagoing units of the <strong>BPol<\/strong> <strong>Lake<\/strong> was to be equipped with machine guns. Among other things, a containerised 27 mm light naval gun solution was under discussion. The container could have been quickly equipped depending on the task. It is now rumoured in relevant specialist circles that, as one of his last official acts, the retired Federal Minister of the Interior, Thomas de Maizi\u00e8re, has proposed arming seagoing units of the <strong>BPol<\/strong> <strong>Lake<\/strong> has been approved. To the astonishment of representatives of German defence technology companies, the 57 mm Bofors gun (BAE Systems) is actually in the selection process. The most modern version of this tried-and-tested weapon is fitted on the Swedish Visby-class corvettes and the US Coast Guard cutters, among others. One can speculate that it was the US Coast Guard's model that tipped the scales in favour of BPol's decision.<\/p>\n<p>We ask ourselves in this blog:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Isn't the 57 mm gun basically a \"symmetrical\" artillery piece, as the installation on a Swedish warship and in the larger units of the US Coast Guard - which comes under the command of the US Navy in the event of tension - shows?<\/li>\n<li>In view of the greater likelihood of \"asymmetric\" threats, would it be <strong>Lake<\/strong> (fast motorboats, helicopters, drones) would a smaller, more dynamic calibre (for example the available 35 mm Millennium gun (Rheinmetall) have been the better choice?<\/li>\n<li>Can the procurers of the <strong>BPol<\/strong> reproach them for not thinking \"outside the box\"?<\/li>\n<\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wie sich die Zeiten \u00e4ndern! In den Zeiten der Ost-West-Konfrontation verf\u00fcgten die seegehenden Verb\u00e4nde des Bundesgrenzschutzes \u00fcber acht Boote in der Ostsee, die mit 40 mm Bordkanonen ausger\u00fcstet waren. Im Konfliktfall sollten sie aus der Ostsee in die Deutsche Bucht verlegt werden, um eingehende Atlantikkonvois auf der letzten Strecke zu begleiten. Das Ende des Kalten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3085,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,33,41],"tags":[272,273,274,275,276,277,278,279,280,281],"class_list":["post-2521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sicherheitspolitik-blog","category-blog","category-technologie-blog","tag-bae-systems","tag-bewaffnung","tag-bpol-see","tag-bundesgrenzschutz","tag-bundespolizei-see","tag-innenminister","tag-marineleichtgeschuetz","tag-millenium-geschuetz","tag-mlg","tag-rheinmetall"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2521\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3085"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}