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Final "goodbye speedboats"!

Final "goodbye speedboats"!

Gepostet von | 22 Aug 2025 | , , , | 1

A legend has finally embarked on its last voyage - albeit not on its own keel! The last seven of the Class 143A fast patrol boats decommissioned at the end of 2016 and laid up at the Kiel Naval Arsenal (MArs Kiel) have been transferred to the Dutch heavy-lift transport ship MV "Happy Sky" in a loading and securing operation lasting several weeks. An initial transport project failed in November 2024 due to mussel growth on the underwater hulls caused by the long laytime - the growth would have prevented secure mooring with straps on the "Happy Sky" and the short-term cleaning of the hulls would have caused some problems. Even a second attempt with a Chinese transport ship...

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Casualties at sea - Role2Sea exercise

Casualties at sea - Role2Sea exercise

Gepostet von | 22 Aug 2025 | , , | 0

The sub-exercise "Role2Sea 2025" will take place in the western Baltic Sea until 25 August 2025. The German Navy and the Bundeswehr Medical Service are involved in this exercise. The aim of the manoeuvre is to ensure medical care at sea as part of the overarching "Quadriga 2025" exercise series, but also to practise the rescue chain and the transfer of injured people from sea to land to the civilian healthcare system. "Such exercises with large numbers of casualties are very complex to plan and carry out and place a considerable burden on the units involved. However, they are essential for realistic mission preparation and the further development of our procedures. Only here...

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Frigate "Sachsen-Anhalt" leaves home port for UNIFIL mission

Frigate "Sachsen-Anhalt" leaves home port for UNIFIL mission

Gepostet von | 22 Aug 2025 | , , | 0

On 25 August 2025 at 10 a.m., the frigate "Sachsen-Anhalt" will set sail for the mandated UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) mission off the Lebanese coast. The crew, under the command of frigate captain Daniel Läzer, will carry out maritime surveillance and training of the Lebanese navy off the Lebanese coast as part of the UNIFIL mission until the end of January next year. The "Sachsen-Anhalt" will leave Wilhelmshaven with around 150 servicemen and women. The frigate's regular crew will be supported by a shipboard deployment team from the shipboard deployment company in Eckernförde and a dental team. Background information F125 class frigate With the Baden-Württemberg class frigates, the navy has a total of four...

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Quadriga 2025 - Bundeswehr and NATO practise alliance exercises

Quadriga 2025 - Bundeswehr and NATO practise alliance exercises

Gepostet von | 22 Aug 2025 | , , | 0

With the Quadriga 2025 exercise series, the Bundeswehr is training together with armed forces from 13 other nations to protect the Baltic Sea region under conditions of crisis and war. During the core exercise period from August to September 2025, around 8,000 German servicewomen and men from the navy, army, air force, cyber and information space and support units will take part in several large-scale exercises in Germany, along NATO's eastern flank and in the Baltic Sea. After the Bundeswehr's capabilities and interoperability with partner forces have been trained at Quadriga in recent years, primarily in the air (2023) and on land (2024), the focus in 2025 will be on the dimension...

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Documentary: STEALTH - Invisible technology

Documentary: STEALTH - Invisible technology

Gepostet von | 21 Aug 2025 | , , | 0

They look like spaceships from a science fiction film: jets with stealth technology. Their design makes stealth aircraft almost invisible to enemy detection systems, giving them a decisive advantage. Modern warships such as the USS "Zumwalt" also camouflage themselves in this way - their unusual shape and special paint scatter enemy radar beams down to fishing vessel level. Stealth technology is now used in all dimensions: In addition to aircraft and ships, it is also used in submarines and armoured vehicles. Watch video kdk, world...

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