Little did Grand Admiral Alfred Tirpitz or his boss, Kaiser Wilhelm II, anticipate that their “risk fleet theory” would take on the meaning it has now under Kier Starmer’s government in the United Kingdumb, as the Royal Navy has to borrow a German warship… with that kind of incompetence in London, I would not put the German navy under that kind of “risk”:
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It has been a while since one of Great Britain’s inconspicuous offshore havens have been in the news, Falkland Islands, Hong Kong, Cayman Islands and now Cyprus.
Was the ship lend to Britain or did the Germans borrow a British driver, We better not ask what business the Germans are up to on Cyprus, since they never got to land on the island in WWII
Also, does the choice of “Sachsen” replacing the “Dragon” have any significance in History, like 5th century migration of the Saxons to Britain?
The German frigate Sachsen (F219) has undergone comprehensive modernization starting in 2022 to extend its operational relevance through the 2030s
Key upgrades include the replacement of the legacy SMART-L radar with the TRS-4D/LR ROT AESA system, which provides ballistic missile detection capabilities up to 2,500 km and enables participation in NATO’s Active Layered Theatre Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) framework.