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Berlin: new national security and defence industry strategy

Berlin: new national security and defence industry strategy

Gepostet von | 10 Jan 2025 | , , | 0

Die Bundesregierung hatte Anfang Dezember 2024 die bereits seit längerem geplante „Nationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungsindustriestrategie“ noch auf den Weg gebracht. Der Kabinettsbeschluss ersetzt das bisherige Strategiepapier von 2020 und reagiert auf die veränderten sicherheitspolitischen Gegebenheiten, insbesondere in Folge des russischen Angriffskriegs auf die Ukraine. Die Nationale Sicherheits- und Verteidigungsstrategie soll die politischen und wirtschaftlichen Voraussetzungen schaffen, damit die Industrie die benötigten und erforderlichen Güter und Dienstleistungen zum Schutz der zivilen Sicherheit und[ds_preview] militärischen Landes- und Bündnisverteidigung liefern kann. Innovationstreiber Verteidigungsminister Boris Pistorius sieht die Strategie als einen Meilenstein, der die Beziehungen zwischen Staat und Industrie auf eine neue Basis...

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Frigate 127 - first study funded

Frigate 127 - first study funded

Gepostet von | 9 Jan 2025 | , , , | 3

The federal government has not yet placed the order for the construction of the new F127 anti-aircraft frigates, but the Defence and Budget Committees have nevertheless approved the first funds. The members of both committees voted in favour of concluding a contract with the US defence company Lockheed Martin on 18 December 2024. Lockheed Martin is to use the initial funding of 44.5 million euros to conduct a study to examine whether the Aegis system and the ultimately favoured design of the F127 with a focus on anti-air warfare (AAW) and ballistic missile defence (BMD) are a good match. The money for this air defence system will come from the 2022...

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Energetic growth of Taiwanese underwater capabilities

Energetic growth of Taiwanese underwater capabilities

Gepostet von | 8 Jan 2025 | , , | 0

The submarine component of the Taiwanese navy currently consists of two boats from the Dutch Zwaardvis-class replica programme from the 1980s, not counting the two American Guppy-class boats from the Second World War era. Following the decision in 2014 to launch its own four-year development programme for six conventional 1,500-tonne Hai Kun-class (Narwhal) boats in the face of insufficient offers from the USA and Italy, the CSBC (China State Shipbuilding Corporation) in Kaohsiung (south-west coast) set up the necessary infrastructure. The newly elected President Tsai Ing-wen commissioned the construction of the prototype back in 2016. This was derived from the previous...

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Russian Karakurt class - progress is being made

Russian Karakurt class - progress is being made

Gepostet von | 7 Jan 2025 | , , | 0

At the end of August, the Russian Navy in Dagestan on the Caspian Sea commissioned the fifth boat of the Karakurt class (project 22800, small missile ship), the "Amur", equipped with eight Kalibr cruise missiles. The "Amur" is already equipped with the navalised Pantsir-M air defence system, a six-barrel 30mm calibre rotary cannon with eight FK 57E6 short-range anti-aircraft missiles (reload: 32). The keel was laid seven years ago at the Zelenodolsky shipyard near Kazan in Tatarstan, deep in the centre of Russia. The programme is running slowly due to problems with the production of the propulsion systems, admitted the commander, Admiral Aleksandr Moiseyev, during his visit to the Caspian Flotilla - but things are progressing! Construction number 1...

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Russian submarines pushed out of the Black Sea

Russian submarines pushed out of the Black Sea

Gepostet von | 6 Jan 2025 | , , | 0

At the beginning of the war against Ukraine, the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation had six conventional submarines of the Varshavyanka class (Project 636.3, Improved Kilo). Two boats ("Novorossiysk", "Krasnodar") were transferred to the Mediterranean before the start of the war and have not yet been able to return to the Black Sea, while "Rostov-on-Don" was presumably irreparably damaged by a Ukrainian Storm Shadow FK in dry dock in Sevastopol in September 2023. According to Ukrainian sources, the three remaining submarines are now believed to be in the Sea of Azov, where they cannot be located by Ukraine. Out of range of Ukrainian drones, they are deploying their weapons load of 4 to 8 Kalibr land-based cruise missiles from there against...

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