Category: Security policy

"Landtag care" by the crew of the Gorch Fock

Back in August, we received a report of unusual maintenance work being carried out on the Schleswig-Holstein Landtag. There is a lower shroud of the Gorch Fock, which has undergone some maintenance work by the crew of the sail training ship. It has been placed on the north side of the state parliament building in Kiel. Another sign of the outstanding sponsorship between the sail training ship of the German Navy and the Schleswig-Holstein state parliament. The lower shroud of the "Gorch Fock" is a sponsorship gift that the ship's command and the German Navy presented to the state parliament during Kieler Woche 2004. It is rigged in a 15 metre high steel frame. Previously, the lower shroud had been on the three-masted barque for 42...

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Change of command on task force supply ship "Berlin"

On Tuesday, 19 September 2023 at 1 p.m., the commander of the Trossgeschwader, Frigate Captain Thorsten Geldmacher, will hand over command of the Einsatzgruppenversorger "Berlin" from Frigate Captain Stefan Klatt to Frigate Captain Karsten Uwe Schlüter. The ceremony will take place on the task force provider "Berlin" at the "German Naval Yards" shipyard in Kiel. Frigate Captain Klatt took over the post of commander on the "Berlin" in 2019. In future, he will work at the naval command in Rostock as a conception and development officer and thus contribute to maintaining and optimising the future viability of the navy. The new commander, Frigate Captain Karsten Uwe Schlüter, previously served on the...

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Waste munitions in the North Sea and Baltic Sea: is there any movement on their removal?

An announcement published on the online platform for public procurement, TED, in mid-July shows that the project to salvage and destroy old munitions in the North and Baltic Seas is picking up speed. Apparently at a German pace. Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke announced an immediate programme at a kick-off conference on 17 February 2023 and referred to the relevant agreement in the coalition agreement. According to the announcement on TED, on 30 June, her ministry awarded Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH - Projektträger Jülich the contract for administrative processing and technical advice as the awarding authority for the award of a pilot project. Experts expect the tender for a pilot project to be...

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Japan's navy exercises off the Russian-occupied Kuril Islands for the first time

Japan's navy exercises off the Russian-occupied Kuril Islands for the first time Japan - Six warships from the US, Japanese and Canadian navies conducted a week-long exercise in the north-west Pacific in August, stretching from the Russian-controlled Kuril Islands to the waters off Tokyo. Multinational and Joint Noble Chinook (Noble Wind) was part of a joint exercise that included manoeuvre and navigation exercises in addition to various surface combatant scenarios. The exercise was part of Large-Scale Global Exercise 23 (LSGE 23), according to a U.S. 7th Fleet spokesperson. The U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) conducted LSGE 23 as a planned exercise from May to August 2023...

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Northern Coasts 23: Major maritime manoeuvre in the Baltic Sea under German command

Aus einer Pressemitteilung des Marinekommandos Rostock Vom 9. bis zum 23. September 2023 findet das diesjährige maritime Großmanöver Northern Coasts (NOCO), eine der wichtigsten multinationalen Übungen zur Stärkung der Zusammenarbeit der Seestreitkräfte Deutschlands und seiner Partnern im Ostseeraum, statt. In diesem Jahr ist die Deutsche Marine mit DEU MARFOR für die Planung und Durchführung verantwortlich. Der Schutz der Nordflanke ist ein elementarer Schwerpunkt der Deutschen Marine bei der Landes- und Bündnisverteidigung. "Der Auftrag der Deutschen Marine ist es, [ds_preview]Deutschland und seine Menschen zu schützen. Tagtäglich, über, auf und unter Wasser. Dass wir dazu bereit sind, haben wir nach Beginn...

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