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Basic training

 

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KSK Operators during a mission in Mazar-e Sharif, Afghanistan (2021)

 

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Luftwaffe Eurofighters now flying routinely with Meteor BVRAAM. 4 x Meteor / x 4 IRIS-T combination, plus drop tanks constitutes an unusually heavy loadout for the service

 

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Luftwaffe Eurofighters now flying routinely with Meteor BVRAAM. 4 x Meteor / x 4 IRIS-T combination, plus drop tanks constitutes an unusually heavy loadout for the service

The small loadout with WVRAAMs only was reserved for air policing, taking into account the rules of engagement requiring a visual inspection anyway. They dropped that proviso after realising that showing wings bristling with weapons to an intruder gets the message through faster.

 

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BP 83 "Bad Düben" and BP 82 "Bamberg" (Potsdam-class) of the Federal Police/Coast Guard, Baltic Sea 2021

 

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Boeing's just released the following image on Twitter … I think they mean to tell us something. ?

 

[Whiskey]

View attachment 311964!i was deplyoed with that gal, she was a supply clerk afaik, and a sight to see!, especcially in the gym tent

 

[Fish&Chips]

BP 83 "Bad Düben" and BP 82 "Bamberg" (Potsdam-class) of the Federal Police/Coast Guard, Baltic Sea 2021

It should be noted that after nearly three decades post Cold War, the larger German coast guard boats are again sporting a main gun (i.e. 57 mm Bofors). The older boats used to have equipment such as 76 mm Oto Melaras but those were dismounted and mothballed in the 1990s because the threat of armed confrontations in German coastal waters was gone and pirates had probably last been seen in the early 19th century. Nowadays though, the possibility of forward deployments in pirate-infested waters or for general peacekeeping business leaves you with the need of something heavier than, say, an MG3 mounted on the guard rail. Not to mention the theoretical threat of suicide speedboats in native German waters.

On a side-note, a Bofors gun would have come in handy a few years ago, when a Chinese freighter started burning sludge oil while still sailing through the city port of Hamburg. Restaurant customers dining outside near the river Elbe were not happy with loads of black soot flakes falling into their soup and air pollution monitoring sensors probably went to "infinite". However, the ship's captain just ignored all radio calls to stop or switch to Diesel fuel and steamed away into the North Sea.

 

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It should be noted that after nearly three decades post Cold War, the larger German coast guard boats are again sporting a main gun (i.e. 57 mm Bofors). The older boats used to have equipment such as 76 mm Oto Melaras but those were dismounted and mothballed in the 1990s because the threat of armed confrontations in German coastal waters was gone and pirates had probably last been seen in the early 19th century. Nowadays though, the possibility of forward deployments in pirate-infested waters or for general peacekeeping business leaves you with the need of something heavier than, say, an MG3 mounted on the guard rail. Not to mention the theoretical threat of suicide speedboats in native German waters.

On a side-note, a Bofors gun would have come in handy a few years ago, when a Chinese freighter started burning sludge oil while still sailing through the city port of Hamburg. Restaurant customers dining outside near the river Elbe were not happy with loads of black soot flakes falling into their soup and air pollution monitoring sensors probably went to "infinite". However, the ship's captain just ignored all radio calls to stop or switch to Diesel fuel and steamed away into the North Sea.

Good for anti-landing craft, just sayin....

 

[Fish&Chips]

Good for anti-landing craft, just sayin....

Wouldn't want to be on the receiving end of it. Think of airburst mode vs open landing crafts... ?

 

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Boeing's just released the following image on Twitter … I think they mean to tell us something. ?

Speaking of Boeing, what ever happened to the plans for the Luftwaffe to operate EA-18 Growlers? I was totally hyped for seeing those with the iron cross on the fuselage.

 

[muck]

Speaking of Boeing, what ever happened to the plans for the Luftwaffe to operate EA-18 Growlers? I was totally hyped for seeing those with the iron cross on the fuselage.

So was I, so was I. The thing is, that deal was to also include an air wing's worth of F/A-18E Super Hornets to ensure a tactical nuclear strike capability after the retirement of the Tornado. That's a big no-no. The Social Democrats, the junior partners in Angela Merkel's coalition government, vetoed it for political reasons.

Any attempts to at least salvage the electronic warfare segment of the deal were then, again, hampered by politics; nobody in the government wanted to conclude a billion dollar-deal with Mr. Orange Man. So Berlin did what Berlin does best: they kicked the can down the road, even spending hundreds of millions on yet another life extension for the Tornado.

It remains to be seen whether the next administration will pick it up, but there's a high likelihood the Greens will be part of that government – and they dream of total nuclear disarmament. They probably wouldn't mind the Growler by itself, but without the Super Hornet that aircraft becomes economically unviable. I mean, no one is daft enough to open up another entire supply train and training pipeline for a single squadron.

 

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Members of Germany's Special Forces Command are pictured during exercise Blue Kite. Involving some 400 troops and various types of vehicles as well as NH90 and A400M aircraft, Blue Kite is a part of exercise Black Star, a four-week, multidimensional manoeuvre confronting special operations forces with a hostage rescue scenario set in a war-torn country. (Pictures: Bundeswehr)

Here's the accompanying video with KSK soldiers introducing members of the press to their gear. Apparently, the Command is launching a bit of a PR offensive.

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EFP Battlegroup in Lithuania​

The Bundeswehr practiced various defensive scenarios at company level with its multinational partners during Ex Raging Leopard

 

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KSK reconnaissance NCO with a G95 (HK416A7) during the SOF-Exercise "Black Star", 2021.

 

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KSK Operators during a Hostage Rescue Exercise, 2021

 

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What is KSK in the German military?? What is it verses the GSG9??

 

[muck]

What is KSK in the German military?? What is it verses the GSG9??

KSK, or Kommando Spezialkräfte, is German for special forces command. The roughly regiment-sized unit is the German Armed Forces' equivalent to e.g. Britain's SAS or the United States' Delta Force. GSG9, on the other hand, is the counter-terrorism unit of the German Federal Police.