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The downfall of the Westerners

Man las die Schlagzeile „4-Tage-Woche bei der Marine!“ Das stiftet Verwirrung. Unser Minister, Boris Pistorius, unser Generalinspekteur, General Carsten Breuer, und unser Inspekteur der Marine, Vizeadmiral Jan Christian Kaack erwähnen es immer wieder: „Einfach mal machen!“ Und sie sagen auch, dass die bestehenden Vorschriften und Weisungen dafür durchaus mal ausgereizt werden dürfen – sofern dadurch niemandem Nachteile entstehen und die Einsatzbereitschaft nicht leidet. „Einfach mal gemacht“ hat das 3. Minensuchgeschwader im aktuellen Pilotprojekt der Einsatzflottille 1. [ds_preview]Dort wird der Freitag einer Woche im Hafen für die seegehenden Einheiten des Geschwaders als dienstfreier Tag festgelegt. Es werden keine Vorhaben für...

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marineforum: 2,000 posts online in three years!

Dear readers and friends of maritime topics! Since we launched the portal of the Marine-Offizier-Vereinigung e.V. (MOV) and the Deutsches Maritimes Institut e.V. together with ElbBureaux GmbH in Hamburg almost exactly three years ago (a good 1,000 days), we have succeeded in publishing over two thousand (2,000!) articles - short and longer, news and explanatory pieces, twice a day - on our web platform and making them accessible to you. That's some news! Stay tuned, stay with us - also in the coming year - and look forward to interesting and interesting facts that we will publish as...

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Aid for Ukraine: Alliance to rebuild the naval forces

London: Norway and the UK announce maritime alliance to provide sustainable support to Ukraine in building coastal and maritime defence The Norwegian Minister of Defence met his British counterpart on 11 December 2023 to jointly present the Maritime Capability Coalition (MCC). The aim is to enable Ukraine to exercise better control over its coast and the neighbouring sea area in the future. Russia should then no longer be able to use the Black Sea as a base for missile attacks on the Ukrainian mainland. Open sea routes and free trade are important, not only for the Ukrainian economy, but also in order to transport grain to the...

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Prove operational capability

Turning point, return to national and alliance defence. This means that the navy must once again be able to hold its own in high-intensity combat. An important component in achieving this goal is the Multidimensional Naval Warfare Training Centre of Operational Flotilla 2. "Good morning crew, today is Thursday, Weekly War! 'Ginger' will not make it easy for us today. But we'll get through it." This announcement over the ship's loudspeaker system on board a frigate in the sea area around Helgoland suggests an exciting and strenuous day of sweaty work. The frigate is in the German Operational Sea Training German Authorities (Gost GEA).... during its operational training programme to achieve the operational capability level Bravo

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Seabed Infrastructure Security: Northern Europe gets going!

Six northern European countries (Denmark, Germany, Finland, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden) are intensifying their cooperation in the field of maritime infrastructure. One part of this is the Seabed Security Experimentation Centre (SeaSEC), which has just been inaugurated in The Hague. The establishment of the SeaSEC is part of the Northern Naval Capability Cooperation (NNCC), which was officially ratified in Washington in early December 2023. The NNCC was established to strengthen the northern maritime industry and develop the best available systems and equipment. Rethinking PPPs Public, private and military partners are now working together to examine how important underwater infrastructure such as data cables, pipelines and platforms for fossil fuels and...

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