The Emden Corvette, which should have been active for weeks, remains in the Blohm+Voss Hamburg shipyard. After repeated rumors, the Vice Admiral of the Navy, Jan Christian KaackHe has acknowledged that War Ships of the German Army have recently suffered Sabotajes … .
Do not explicitly quote EMDEN or other ships by name, for security reasons, but it is very possible that it refers to it. He has also spoken of repeated attempts to penetrate the naval bases, which keep the German Navy alert. “The growing threat of Russia is more urgent in early 2025 than two years ago,” he warns, and confirms the trial that the German defense minister, defense minister, Boris Pistoriusit has been spreading months: “We are not in a declared war situation, but we are not in a peace situation either.”
In more than one case so far, saboteators have caused selective damage to warships in Germany. “There is destruction, that is, sabotage, in more than one unit,” Kaack has admitted in the framework of the “Navy Talks,” in Berlin.
In the shipyards, adequate measures have been taken to avoid new cases of sabotage, but the forms of attack are alien to military practices, accessible to civilians, and hence the difficulty in anticipating risk situations. According to a filtered report to German media, during an inspection made in January it was discovered that Several kilos of metal chips They had been poured into the propulsion system of the warship, for example.
If it had not been detected, this would have caused considerable damage. But apparently sabotage has not been made by military personnel, but by employees or false employees of the shipyards, it is suspected that by cleaning personnel, in an area outside the German Navy.
A spokesman for the Blohm+Voss shipyard, who has manufactured the Emden corvette and is pending to deliver it to the Navy, has replied that it will not provide any information.
“They are trying to destabilize both our defense forces and our society,” says Kaack, who adds that in addition to sabotage attempts to warships, several cases of intrusions have been recorded in naval bases from land and sea and “attempts to approach »To uniformed soldiers who returned home.
It also records a recent increase in flycards with unknown unknown aircraft on Bundeswehr, industrial plants and also on the American military base Ramstein and the base of the Schwesing to the Aaérea force, in Schleswig-Holstein, where Ukrainian soldiers are being being Trained in Patriot Air Defense Systems.
«Our assessment is that they are putting us to the test, we are being examined, surely in search of weak points. They are trying to destabilize, both nationally and in the Atlantic Alliance. And possibly they are creating the bases for future active military activities, ”says the Vice Admiral.
In response to this danger, the Navy is taking measures since 2022, tries to reassure, although it is forced to admit that since the beginning of this year the incidents have multiplied and reach a unpublished intensity so far.
All this requires a higher level of preventive measures and also more preparation of the countermeasures. The recent cases of attacks in the Baltic against energy and communications infrastructure have led the German Navy to adapt new training against mines and an increase in the depth of the water in which their divers are trained, from 54 to 84 meters, “Approximately the depth to which the Nord Stream 1 and 2 attacks occurred.”
The Navy also creates specialized security companies in specific procedures. «Experts and intelligence agencies agree that Russia will be in a position to find a conflict with NATO from 2029″, puts Kaack term, “so we have initiated a strategic extension of the existing plans, the” Marine course 2035+ ». «We don’t have time to lose. In the coming weeks we will coordinate the necessary measures, first internally, and then we will make them public ”, advances on the new strategy about to be applied.
Kaack does not hide the severity of the situation. The EMDEN corvette is urgently needed for maritime surveillance, before the NATO alert due to the increase in Russian hybrid attacks in the Baltic Sea region.
In May 2023, when the Emden War Ship was baptized, the mayor of the Homonymous Homonymous Sponsorship City of Eastern Frisia proudly declared: «The ‘Emden’ embodies the strength and courage of our Navy». And the Vice Admiral Frank Lenskisub -inspector of the Navy, described the new corvette as “another important step in the rejuvenation of our fleet.”
This feels the foundations for “increasing our presence and combat power on the north flank and especially in the Baltic Sea.” The Bundeswehr has commissioned a total of five new corvettes of class 130 for a price of 2,000 million euros. They are being built under the direction of the Naval Shipyard Group Vessels Lürssen (NVL) of Bremen in several shipyards in North Germany, including Blohm+Voss in Hamburg, which belongs to NVL.
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