{"id":52589,"date":"2026-01-26T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=52589"},"modified":"2026-01-19T11:06:59","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T10:06:59","slug":"royal-navy-mine-defence-with-civilian-ships","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/royal-navy-minenabwehr-mit-zivilen-schiffen\/","title":{"rendered":"Royal Navy - Mine defence with civilian ships"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_52590\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-52590\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6b-gbr-stirling_castle-rn-crwn.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-52590 size-medium\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6b-gbr-stirling_castle-rn-crwn-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"Stirling CastlePhoto: Royal Navy\/Crown Copyright\" width=\"300\" height=\"202\" srcset=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6b-gbr-stirling_castle-rn-crwn-300x202.jpg 300w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6b-gbr-stirling_castle-rn-crwn-768x518.jpg 768w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6b-gbr-stirling_castle-rn-crwn-18x12.jpg 18w, \/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/6b-gbr-stirling_castle-rn-crwn.jpg 831w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-52590\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stirling Castle \/ Photo: Royal Navy\/Crown Copyright<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Stirling Castle, purchased in 2023 for the Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service (RFA), but then decommissioned in 2024 due to a lack of personnel, was taken over by the Royal Navy at the beginning of the year and reactivated in July with a qualified crew under the White Ensign (white naval flag of war). The ship, which still looks quite civilian, completed its first sea voyages as a military mother ship for autonomous mine defence platforms towards the end of October and relocated to Portsmouth. From there, she is to organise the Royal Navy's modern mine defence with autonomous platforms, which were developed in cooperation with Thales\/France, together with the newly established Mine and Threat Exploitation Group (MTXG).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stirling Castle, 2023 f\u00fcr den Royal Fleet Auxiliary Service (RFA) gekauft, dann allerdings wegen Personalmangels in 2024 stillgelegt, wurde Anfang des Jahres von der Royal Navy \u00fcbernommen und noch im Juli mit qualifizierter Besatzung unter dem White Ensign (wei\u00dfe Seekriegsflagge) reaktiviert. Das noch recht zivil aussehende Schiff hat gegen Ende Oktober seine ersten Seefahrten als [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":52592,"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":[23,486,32],"tags":[606,872,11658,1449,11655,11404,8856,491,11654,1022,11657,11656],"class_list":["post-52589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marinen-aus-aller-welt","category-headlines","category-magazin","tag-autonome-systeme","tag-minenabwehr","tag-minenabwehrplattformen","tag-minenjagd","tag-mtxg","tag-portsmouth","tag-rfa","tag-royal-navy","tag-stirling-castle","tag-thales","tag-uk-navy","tag-white-ensign"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589","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=52589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52593,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52589\/revisions\/52593"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/52592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=52589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=52589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=52589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}