{"id":47998,"date":"2025-08-22T11:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-22T09:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=47998"},"modified":"2025-09-29T20:46:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-29T18:46:36","slug":"frigate-saxony-anhalt-leaves-home-port-for-unifil-deployment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/fregatte-sachsen-anhalt-verlaesst-heimathafen-fuer-unifil-einsatz\/","title":{"rendered":"Frigate \"Sachsen-Anhalt\" leaves home port for UNIFIL mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>On 25 August 2025 at 10 a.m., the frigate \"Sachsen-Anhalt\" will set sail off the Lebanese coast for the mandated foreign mission UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon).<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The crew, under the command of frigate captain Daniel L\u00e4zer, will carry out maritime surveillance and training for the Lebanese navy off the Lebanese coast until the end of January next year as part of the UNIFIL mission.<\/p>\n<p>The \"Sachsen-Anhalt\" leaves Wilhelmshaven with around 150 servicemen and women. The frigate's regular crew is supported by a shipboard deployment team from the shipboard deployment company in Eckernf\u00f6rde and a group of dentists.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_48025\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-48025\" style=\"width: 1243px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-48025\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/deu-F224-Sachsen-Anhalt_Kim-Brakensiek-1-e1755847308698-300x105.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1243\" height=\"435\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/deu-F224-Sachsen-Anhalt_Kim-Brakensiek-1-e1755847308698-300x105.jpeg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/deu-F224-Sachsen-Anhalt_Kim-Brakensiek-1-e1755847308698-1024x357.jpeg 1024w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/deu-F224-Sachsen-Anhalt_Kim-Brakensiek-1-e1755847308698-768x268.jpeg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/deu-F224-Sachsen-Anhalt_Kim-Brakensiek-1-e1755847308698-1536x536.jpeg 1536w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/deu-F224-Sachsen-Anhalt_Kim-Brakensiek-1-e1755847308698.jpeg 1920w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1243px) 100vw, 1243px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-48025\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Frigate \"Sachsen-Anhalt\" passes the Kaiser Wilhelm Bridge in Wilhelmshaven. Photo: Bw\/K.Brakensiek<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>Background information<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Frigate class F125<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>With the Baden-W\u00fcrttemberg-class frigates, the navy has a total of four of a type of frigate designed from scratch specifically for stabilisation missions and developed from German operational experience over the past decades. The range of tasks of the F125 class primarily includes maritime surveillance in crisis regions worldwide, such as missions for embargo controls or anti-piracy operations.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundeswehr.de\/de\/ausruestung-technik-bundeswehr\/seesysteme-bundeswehr\/baden-wuerttemberg-klasse-f125-fregatten\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><button class=\"mfo-button\">More information on the F125 class<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>UNIFIL: <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The core task of the marines is maritime surveillance. In addition to the German blue helmets, ships and boats from Greece, Bangladesh, Indonesia and Turkey are also involved in the UN mission in the Mediterranean. The tasks also include cooperating with the Lebanese authorities and training the Lebanese navy in coastal defence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bundeswehr.de\/de\/auftrag\/einsaetze\/missionen\/mittelmeer-unifil-irini-sea-guardian\/die-bundeswehr-im-libanon\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\"><button class=\"mfo-button\">More information on UNIFIL<\/button><\/a><\/p>\n<p>marine.de, ajs<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Am 25. August 2025 um 10 Uhr wird die Fregatte \"Sachsen-Anhalt\" zum mandatierten Auslandseinsatz UNIFIL- (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) vor der libanesischen K\u00fcste auslaufen. Die Besatzung unter dem Kommando von Fregattenkapit\u00e4n Daniel L\u00e4zer f\u00fchrt bis Ende Januar n\u00e4chsten Jahres vor der libanesischen K\u00fcste Seeraum\u00fcberwachung und Ausbildung der libanesischen Marine im Rahmen des Einsatzes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":48055,"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":"2normal","footnotes":""},"categories":[42,486,51],"tags":[1286,182,1197,951,10415,3114],"class_list":["post-47998","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-headlines","category-streitkraefte-news","tag-bordeinsatzkompanie","tag-deutsche-marine","tag-einsatzflottille-2","tag-fregatte-sachsen-anhalt","tag-seebata","tag-seeraumueberwachung"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47998","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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47998"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47998\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":48955,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47998\/revisions\/48955"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47998"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47998"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47998"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}