Category: Armed Forces

Bremen march

Bremen march

Gepostet von | 16 May 2022 | , , , | 0

Why is marching a topic for a maritime forum? Well, firstly, it's about the cooperation between active and reserve service personnel - and there are also comrades in blue cloth, and secondly, Bremen is a state on the coast! This is the eighth time that the Bremen state command and the Bremen regional group of the Association of German Armed Forces Reservists (VdRBw) have organised the "Bremen March". Due to the corona pandemic, the march was organised as a remotemarch in the last two years, and the 50 or so reservists taking part will be able to set off together again on 21 May 2022. The 24-kilometre-long...

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"Top Gun" cinema release - Maverick is back

"Top Gun" cinema release - Maverick is back

Gepostet von | 16 May 2022 | , , , , | 0

It's not just fans of the 1986 blockbuster who are delighted, but the aviation community in particular. And whether they admit it or not and hide the sparkle in their eyes behind the RayBan: it's "a thing", even for our naval aviators. Unfortunately, the navy no longer has Tornados to operate over the sea. Admittedly, the German Navy's aircraft are not that fast either. Nevertheless, this is no reason not to use the new edition of Top Gun as PR for the naval aviators. The pilots and crews of the naval aircraft are the heroes and heroines in reality, not in Cinemascope...

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Corvette Cologne - Background

Corvette Cologne - Background

Gepostet von | 5 May 2022 | , , , | 0

Kölle Alaaf - Since 21 April 2022, construction number 6 of the Braunschweig class has been named "Köln". At 10.55 a.m., the Kölsch bottle set in motion by the Lord Mayor of the sponsor city, Henriette Reker, smashed against the bow of the corvette. [ 21 April 2022, construction number 6 of the Braunschweig class was christened "Köln" at the traditional Hamburg shipyard Blohm & Voss, which has belonged to Lürssen Defence, now NVL Group, since 2016. The "Köln" is the first unit of the German Navy's second batch of Class 130 (K130) corvettes]. The Class 130 (K130) corvettes, also categorised as the Braunschweig class, are a key component of the German Navy's crisis response operations.

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Maritime security and Africa: a huge task

Maritime security and Africa: a huge task

Gepostet von | 4 May 2022 | , , , , | 0

The Chief of the South African Navy, Vice Admiral Mosiwa Samuel Hlongwane, at the recent Maritime Security Conference held in Simon's Town, described Africa as the final frontier of maritime security and discussed future threats and opportunities, strategies and business opportunities to improve the security of Africa's seas. Illicit arms and drug trafficking, piracy, armed robbery at sea, crude oil theft, maritime terrorism, human trafficking, waste dumping and environmental degradation, unregulated fishing and overfishing are just some of the major threats to Africa's maritime security. These were some of the issues discussed at the 4th Annual Maritime Security Conference (MSC) held in Simon's Town on 12 April....

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Simulator for training on the NH90 Sea Lion

Simulator for training on the NH90 Sea Lion

Gepostet von | 3 May 2022 | , , , , | 0

Second full-mission simulator for naval aviators The NATO Support and Procurement Agency (NSPA) has ordered a second full-mission simulator (FMS) on behalf of the German Armed Forces to support training on the NH90 Sea Lion naval helicopter. The delivery contract from December 2019 has thus been extended. At that time, the development and delivery of a simulator landscape consisting of an NH90 full-mission simulator, NH90 cockpit procedures trainer, NH90 tactics trainer and NH90 winch and hoist operator trainer had been agreed. (ESuT reported https://esut.de/) The training system is scheduled to go into operation in 2022. The additional simulator that has now been ordered will supplement the existing equipment from 2024. CAE has long been a training partner of the German Navy and has supplied training equipment for the search and rescue helicopter...

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