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Coalition agreement 2025: light and shade close together

Coalition agreement 2025: light and shade close together

Gepostet von | 16 May 2025 | , , | 0

The coalition agreement is now in place - and perhaps by the time this issue is published there will be a prospect and a date for the election of a chancellor and the formation of a coalition. The coalition agreement refers to the dynamically developing security policy situation, which is characterised by the fact that war is no longer just threatened, but actually waged. However, apart from the mention of Russia, a cloak of silence has been drawn over the very hot global threat. The key aspects of the situation are recognised: "For the first time since the end of the Second World War, Germany and Europe must be in a position to ensure their security...

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Royal Navy - Type 23 frigates secure the aircraft carriers

Royal Navy - Type 23 frigates secure the aircraft carriers

Gepostet von | 15 May 2025 | , , | 0

TAPS - these are the Royal Navy's Towed Array Patrol Ships, which usually traverse the waters of the North Atlantic for two months at a time. Their task: to protect the strategic submarines of the Vanguard class from potential underwater threats - recognised with the help of their highly sensitive towed array sonars. The six remaining Duke-class submarine frigates "Somerset", "Richmond", "Portland", "St Albans", "Sutherland" and "Kent" (Type 23, 133 metres, 4,300 tonnes) are deployed. They take it in turns to depart from their home port of Devonport/Plymouth and take over the permanent watch for the SSBNs. These patrols form the basis of the British deterrent policy - CASD (Continuous At Sea Deterrent) - but remain in...

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Navy 2025: Deterrence and operational readiness

Navy 2025: Deterrence and operational readiness

Gepostet von | 14 May 2025 | , , | 1

When naval inspector Vice Admiral Jan Kaack presents a perfectly styled document a few days after the new and old Minister Pistorius takes office, one thing is clear: you don't produce something like this within a week. This crystal-clear brochure has been waiting to be the first indirect military policy statement from Boris Pistorius, agreed with the Inspector General, after his second oath of office. Today, the Inspector General invited a small group of selected journalists on a "city tour of the sea". He essentially presented the content of the new "Marine Course", after which he answered critical background questions from those present, some of whom were already familiar with the subject. It was about Russian aggression...

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Tamsen Maritim GmbH celebrates its 30th anniversary

Tamsen Maritim GmbH celebrates its 30th anniversary

Gepostet von | 14 May 2025 | , , , | 0

Tamsen Maritim GmbH celebrates the 30th anniversary of the re-establishment of the shipyard site in Rostock-Gehlsdorf In 1995, the shipyard Abeking & Rasmussen (Lemwerder) and Neptun Industrie Rostock jointly founded A&R Neptun Boat Service GmbH on the site of the former Neptun naval shipyard in Gehlsdorf. At that time, around DM 23 million was invested in new halls (total area 4300 m²), workshops and an administration building. The new shipyard also received a ship lift, with which ships and yachts weighing up to 1,000 tonnes can be docked. After an initial change of ownership in 2002, further investments were made in the production facilities. In 2009, the Hamburg entrepreneur Heiner Tamsen finally took over...

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Sassnitz - "Eventin" seized off the coast of Rügen

Sassnitz - "Eventin" seized off the coast of Rügen

Gepostet von | 13 May 2025 | , , , | 7

Update from 10/05/2025 see below With the seizure of the crude oil tanker "Eventin" (152,000 tdw), which is attributed to the Russian shadow fleet, Germany is skipping several stages of escalation, according to a sanctions expert. It is unclear what will happen to the ship and its cargo. Always close by: a ship from the Coast Guard Coordination Organisation. The Federal Coast Guard has been a coordination network of several federal authorities since 1994 - including BPol See, customs, the water police of the coastal states and the fisheries inspectorates. The "Eventin" has been anchored off Sassnitz since mid-January. The tanker was towed there after a total blackout (power failure) off Rügen and detained by the German authorities. End...

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