Modernización de Fuchs concluirá a fin de año

Modernização de 272 viaturas Fuchs/Fox da Bundeerwehr será concluída até final do ano

Seguranca e Defesa




Até o final de 2020, a Rheinmetall concluirá a modernização de 272 viaturas Fuchs/Fox do Exército alemão, elevando-as ao padrão 1A8. O Fuchs/Fox é um blindado 6x6 da qual mais de 1.400 exemplares já foram produzidos, sendo que 300 dos quais são da variante de reconhecimento químico, Biológico, Radiológico e Nuclear (CBRN), que está em serviço com os Estados Unidos, Alemanha, Emirados Árabes Unidos, Reino Unido, Kuwait, Holanda e Noruega (Foto: Rheinmetall). A viatura já acumulou grande experiência internacional, e atualmente participa de missões de paz no Afeganistão e no Mali. O padrão 1A8 oferece maior proteção contra ameaças balísticas, minas e Artefatos Explosivos Improvisados; para isso, o casco é modificado, bem como portas e outras partes da estrutura. A mais recente variante é o Fuchs/Fox 2, que está em serviço com os Emirados Árabes Unidos e com o Kuwait (além de outro país da região, não especificado), e entre outros melhoramentos tem o teto mais alvo (aumentando o espaço interno), novos sistemas de transmissão e de suspensão.

Alemania: Bundeswehr vende notebook con secretos militares

Bundeswehr sold laptop with secret data

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Laptop given away, data deletion forgotten: The Bundeswehr sold a computer with sensitive files according to a media report. The Ministry of Defense weighed down.

The Bundeswehr is said to have sold a used laptop on whose hard drive confidential information was. It concerns the operating instructions for the rocket launcher "Mars" classified as "classified information - only for official use". This reports the "Süddeutsche Zeitung".

Apparently the hard drive was not deleted before the sale. The Department of Defense told the newspaper that the description of the missile launcher "could not lead to any critical findings." If material is marked as "classified - for official use only", it is subject to the lowest level of secrecy.

According to the report, the purchaser, an Upper Bavarian forester, bought four used laptops from the collecting society of the federal government (Vebeg) in 2018. On one of them was therefore still the operating system installed, by typing in the last user name as a password it could be unlocked. In March, he reported his find to the ministry.

At least one more case

This explained the "South German", it was the utilization of IT equipment to the complaint of the forester "a close scrutiny" and found that in 2016 another calculator with unerelöschter hard drive was sold through the collecting society. Whether it also had been confidential data, can no longer be determined.

According to the newspaper, the ministry initiated a repurchase of the equipment via the Vebeg. The forester returned one, but three were still in possession. The investigation of the hard disks by the journalists had also shown that other classified as secret documents that had previously been deleted, "could easily be restored." In addition, had on one of the computers photos of current or former members of the Bundeswehr.

Neonazis en el Bundeswehr

German military identifies dozens of extremists within its ranks

The Bundeswehr has has identified 89 far-right extremists and 24 Islamists, a German media group reported. The number of extremists has fallen sharply since Germany abolished compulsory military service in 2011.


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The German military has identified 89 far-right extremists and 24 Islamists within its own ranks since 2011, newspapers belonging to the Funkemedia group reported on Saturday, citing a Defense Ministry report.

The German military - known in German as the Bundeswehr - has been under pressure to deal with Nazi sympathizers among its ranks after an army lieutenant was found last year leading a double life as a Syrian refugee and planning a terrorist attack.

But Germany's Military Counterintelligence Service's (MAD) told the Funke Media group that both the number of suspected cases and the number of identified extremists had "decreased significantly" since Germany suspended conscription in 2011.

The number of suspected cases of right-wing extremism have halved to an average of 300 per year, according to Defense Ministry data. Of the nearly 90 right-wing extremists identified, 67 cases date from the period when it was mandatory for all German men to serve in the military.

"The Bundeswehr does not want Nazis in its ranks. If you can fish them out at entry level, all the better," parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces, Hans-Peter Bartels, told the Funke Media group.

The MAD has intensified its security checks on those applying for a job with the Bundeswehr. This has led to several applicants with an extremist background being denied a position in the German military.

The MAD also investigated 300 suspected cases of Islamism in the Bundeswehr since 2011, according to the report.

One third of the cases were eventually confirmed; 76 suspects left the military before charges could be brought against them.

ap/ng (AFP, dpa)

Sigue complicado en Alemania distinguir el pasado

Military history provides traditional dilemma for German army

Germany’s relationship to its military past is difficult at the best of times and the army is now reworking its tradition decree. With soldier and society increasingly at odds, it’s likely to be a complicated process.
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New recruits of the German armed forces Bundeswehr take oath in front of the Reichstag

The top generals were there, as were military historians and social scientists. The defense minister sat in the front row.
But as officials with the German Armed Forces, or Bundeswehr, gathered at the Center for Military History and Social Sciences in Potsdam to grapple with the German military's relationship with its past, the discussion turned frequently to those who weren't present — the troops themselves.
The Bundeswehr is overhauling its traditions decree, a uniquely German document that identifies the acceptable sources of military heritage in a country where the past is divisive, especially as it relates to the armed forces. It's a challenging act that involves balancing the political needs of the moment with a rank and file that is developing more emotional ties to their own identity as they deploy overseas.
"Everyone in this room has studied this topic quite intensively," Bundeswehr Brigadier General Kai Rohrschneider, the current chief of staff for US Army Europe, told the gathered academics. "For the troops it's a lot more difficult."

A growing rift

The debate itself points to the growing rift between German society and its military. After a series of scandals hit the Bundeswehr this spring, most notably the discovery of a right-wing extremist officer posing as an asylum-seeker, political pressure was high to rein in what some saw as a military disconnected from the society it served.
 German barracks named after Rommel
The German defense minister wants barracks named after WWII figures renamed
Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen broadly condemned the Bundeswehr leadership, which responded by searching barracks for further signs of extremism. Von der Leyen suggested she might rename barracks and warships named after Nazi-era soldiers or commanders, including the famed Field Marshal Erwin Rommel.
A backlash quickly followed. Current and former military officers criticized von der Leyen's blanket condemnation. Younger officers voiced their displeasure. The critics were soon joined by public and media commentary questioning the slash-and-burn approach to the past.

Former Chancellor Helmut Schmidt in army uniform

The confusing boundaries of the debate were embodied in the May removal of a photographic portrait of Helmut Schmidt, the former German chancellor, from the Hamburg university that bears his name.
The portrait showed a young Schmidt in his Nazi-era Wehrmacht uniform [The German army in World War II]. Yet as defense minister, Schmidt was key in preserving some of the most progressive reforms built into the Bundeswehr.
Von der Leyen announced around the same time her plan to have the traditions decree refashioned for the third time in Bundeswehr history.

Looking back — but how far back?

The Potsdam discussion was structured to split German military history around the year 1933, when the Nazis rose to power.
Speakers focused on one side of the divide looked to Prussian military reformers of the 19th Century as positive role models. Others pointed to the July 20, 1944 assassination attempt against Hitler carried out by a conspiracy of his own officers. Still others pointed to the very creation of the Bundeswehr in 1955 — the first democratically controlled military in German history — as worthy of celebration in its own right.

Bundeswehr: Cambian nombres de barracas con nombres de héroes de la SGM

Germany's von der Leyen: Rename army barracks honoring WWII-era officers
Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen has said Germany must rename all barracks honoring WWII-era soldiers. The Bundeswehr has been engulfed in a series of scandals - from reports of sexual abuse to right-wing extremism.



German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said on Sunday that the military must rename about a half dozen Bundeswehr barracks that still bear the name of WWII-era officers.
The proposal comes as part of the Defense Ministry's latest push for Germany's army to make a clean break with its Nazi past following a series of scandals this year.
Read more: What draws right-wing extremists to the military?
"The Bundeswehr has to send signals both internally and externally that it is not rooted in the tradition of the Wehrmacht (Germany's Nazi-era military)," von der Leyen told Germany's Bild am Sonntag newspaper. "It needs to confidently put more of an emphasis on its own 60-year history. Why not rename those barracks?"

Among the major barracks named after Nazi-era officers are the Marseille barracks in the northern municipality of Appen, named after the famed Luftwaffe fighter pilot, Hans-Joachim Marseille, and the Feldwebel-Lilienthal barracks in Delemnhorst named after Diedrich Lilienthal, a non-commissioned officer who led a number of the Wehrmacht's anti-tank artillery divisions into the Soviet Union.
Created in 1955 for the defense of West Germany, Germany's Bundeswehr does not consider itself as a successor to the Wehrmacht. However, the German military has this year been plagued by a series of extremist scandals. The most notable incident saw the arrest of a lieutenant who posed as an asylum seeker to carry out an attack on a migrant center.
Last month, von der Leyen opened an investigation into whether there are right-wing extremists in the German military. In a related move, the head of the armed forces last week called for an inspection of all Bundeswehr barracks after investigators discovered Nazi memorabilia in a garrison in Donaueschingen.

Von der Leyen under fire

The scandals have piled pressure on von der Leyen, a senior figure in the Christian Democratic Party (CDU) and a close ally of Chancellor Angela Merkel, less than five months before the German election. The defense minister drew criticism from an army association after she called out the armed forces for supposed "weak leadership." She later apologized for her criticism of the military but also warned there could be further revelations.



The German defense minister's handling of the probe into extremist factions within the military has prompted criticism. Former Defense Minister Volker Rühe (CDU) told the Welt am Sonntag newspaper that it was "completely inappropriate and absurd to place the whole Bundeswehr under suspicion of being an extension of the Wehrmacht." Von der Leyen's response to the scandal had created a "distorted picture of the Bundeswehr," he added.
Germany's parliamentary commissioner for the armed forces, Hans-Peter Bartels, a Social Democrat, said that "the issue of ties to the Wehrmacht and its traditions are now largely behind the Bundeswehr." Speaking to the Frankfurter Allgemeines Sonntagszeitung newspaper, Bartels said that von der Leyen's probe was merely about excluding a handful "problematic remaining devotees" but that her disproportionate response to the problem had spurred resentment among many soldiers.
dm/cl (dpa, Reuters, AFP)

Símbolos nazis en barracas del Bundeswehr

Berlin orders barracks to be searched after Nazi-era symbols discovery
The head of Germany's armed forces has ordered an inspection of all military barracks after Nazi-era memorabilia was discovered in two garrisons. The army is probing far-right sympathizers in its ranks.





Bundeswehr Inspector General Volker Wieker (pictured above, center) has instructed senior officials to search all military properties and remove any Nazi symbols, the Defense Ministry said Sunday.

According to the mass market "Bild" newspaper, Wieker sent around a memo last week asking army inspectors to hand in an interim report by Tuesday and complete the building checks one week later.

"This examination covers all official properties, premises and offices under the army's responsibility," the directive said.

The move comes amid a deepening scandal over right-wing extremism among some members of the German military.

Wehrmacht memorabilia

The controversy ignited last month after the arrest of a 28-year-old soldier stationed at a Franco-German base near Strasbourg who had expressed far-right views and was said to be plotting a terrorist attack disguised as a Syrian refugee. At his base at Illkirch in northeastern France, officials had found Wehrmacht memorabilia openly displayed in the common room without any apparent effort to remove it.

The Wehrmacht was the name of the Nazi regime's army. Investigators looking into far-right sympathizers in the army later discovered similar Wehrmacht items at another base in the Black Forest town of Donaueschingen in southwestern Germany.

News magazine "Spiegel" reported on Saturday that a display case containing Nazi-era Wehrmacht helmets was found, as well as a room decked out with Wehrmacht memorabilia including pictures of soldiers, pistols, more helmets and military decorations.

'No criminal offense'

A Defense Ministry spokesman said the objects found at Donaueschingen did not include Nazi items punishable under German law such as swastikas. However, on a visit to Illkirch on Wednesday, Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen said she would not tolerate the veneration of the Wehrmacht.

With a federal election less than six months away, the Defense Ministry and the army are scrambling to contain the scandal. Von der Leyen, who is close to German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has demanded her generals show zero tolerancetowards any extremist leanings within the ranks.

The minister has sharply rebuked the armed forces for leadership failures, criticizing "a misunderstood esprit de corps" that led superior officers to "look the other way."

"This process of clarification demands courage and tenacity," she told "Bild" on Sunday.

"We must all support it, from the general down to the new recruits because it concerns the reputation of the Bundeswehr."

Nuevo cibermando del Bundeswehr

German army launches new cyber command
The military's computers are attacked from online sources thousands of times each day. To improve defense, the Bundeswehr has now launched its own cyber command.
DW



Germany's military, the Bundeswehr, is a high-value target for hackers and foreign spy agencies – not only because of its military secrets, but also due to its IT-supported weapons systems. If hackers were ever to gain control of them, the results could be devastating.
In the first nine weeks of this year alone, the Bundeswehr's network was attacked some 284,000 times. The Bundeswehr has also been affected by targeted disinformation campaigns online. Thus, German Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen from the ruling Christian Democrats views attacks from cyberspace as, "a growing threat to our security."

Future cyber attacks are to be fended off by the new "Cyber and Information Space Command" (CIR), which will become operational on April 1. The command will have its own independent organizational structure, thus becoming the sixth branch of the German military – on a par with the army, navy, air force, joint medical service and joint support service. Although other countries, such as the USA, set up cyber commands long ago, the Bundeswehr now sees itself "at the international forefront."
Eventually, 13,500 German soldiers and civilian contractors currently dealing with cyber defense from a number of different locations will be brought together under the CIR's roof. The Bundeswehr is also desperately seeking IT specialists in the labor market. It is currently running elaborate advertising campaigns in order to pitch the army as an attractive and modern IT employer – not exactly the Bundeswehr's trademark to date.
- The internet is like the high seas
- Bundestag cyber campaigns take to Facebook and Twitter
West Germany officially joined the trans-Atlantic alliance in 1955. However, it wasn't until after reunification in 1990 that the German government considered "out of area" missions led by NATO. From peacekeeping to deterrence, Germany's Bundeswehr has since been deployed in several countries across the globe in defense of its allies.

Can the Bundeswehr keep up the pace?
In the past, the fast pace of hardware and software innovation has proven incompatible with the protracted tempo of the Bundeswehr's procurement process. IT specialists are in unanimous agreement: the Bundeswehr must become much more flexible in the future. The cyber command's first inspector, Air Force General Ludwig Leinhos, will thus have to ensure what is known as "agility" in the IT sector – the ability to quickly adjust to changes.
Leinhos is familiar with the task: he is a cyber warfare specialist and was responsible for "Cyber Defense" at NATO's Brussels headquarters until early 2016. But a team is only as good as its personnel. The Bundeswehr is therefore counting on bringing in people from the private sector and other branches of its military, as well as those studying at the army's Bundeswehr University in Munich – where it has founded a "Cyber Cluster." The Bundeswehr also wants to work with IT branch start-ups and has initiated a so-called "Cyber Innovation Hub." The hub allows young IT entrepreneurs from Berlin to get in contact with the Bundeswehr.
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 Deutschland Bundeswehr Cyberabwehr Symbolbild (Bundeswehr/Tom Twardy)
The German rapid reaction team (Blue Team 04) has taken part in several NATO manoeuvres
On April 5, Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen will assemble the new cyber command for a celebratory installation in Bonn – initially the unit will consist of 260 members, who will, nevertheless, have to wait for their new building be completed before being able to move in for good. The unit is to be at full strength, and the Bundeswehr completely capable of comprehensive defense in cyberspace, by 2021.

Ministra de defensa alemana se acuerda que las FFAA son para combatir

German defense minister wants to remove Bundeswehr personnel limit: report
Defense Minister Ursula von der Leyen wants to increase the German army's flexibility by boosting its numbers, a media report says. It says the new concept is based on the principle of a "breathing personnel structure."


 Deutschland Gebirgsjägerbataillon der Bundeswehr

According to Saturday's report by German news outlet RedaktionsNetzwerk Deutschland, von der Leyen wants to abolish the Bundeswehr's current upper personnel limit of 170,000 short-service and professional soldiers plus 15,000 volunteers.
The report said she is planning to increase the number of positions in the German army by 7,000 on the principle of a "breathing personnel structure" that would allow more flexibility in the face of new threats and deployments.
Her new concept also envisages an increase in the number of professional soldiers in comparison with those who serve with the Bundeswehr on a short-term basis, according to the report.
Von der Leyen has been defense minister since the end of 2013
Von der Leyen also reportedly wants to allow local Bundeswehr commanders more say in who is employed in the belief that they are better placed to judge whether someone is qualified than the central personnel department. In another bid to boost flexibility, applicants will also be required to fulfill less stringent physical qualifications if they are seeking a job as an IT expert than if they want to be a soldier eligible for active combat duty.
The report said von der Leyen planned to make her new concept public in the coming week.

'More money needed'

The defense expert for the conservative bloc of the Christian Democratic Union and the Christian Social Union, Henning Otte, told the RedaktionsNetzwerk that the new concept was "the right answer for being able to react flexibly to changed security situations."
Rainer Arnold, the defense spokesman for the Social Democrats, also welcomed the abolition of an upper limit for personnel numbers, but warned that the proposal could function only if the defense minister obtained additional money for Bundeswehr employees and equipment.

Deutsche Welle

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Presentación anual del Bundeswehr

Alemania: Jura de la bandera en el Reichstag, Berlin (2010)

La Jura de la Bandera en el Bundeswehr 2010 - Reichstag Berlin. 




 

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