dpa<\/p>\n
Berlin<\/p>\n
Germany is prepared to contribute minehunters to a potential mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz after the Iran war ends, DPA learnt from government sources on Thursday.<\/p>\n
Chancellor Friedrich Merz is expected to offer German participation for a possible military mission during talks planned for Friday initiated by France and the UK, the sources said.<\/p>\n
Following the end of hostilities, the German Armed Forces or Bundeswehr would provide minehunters, an escort ship and aerial surveillance for such a mission if certain conditions are met, they said.<\/p>\n
The Bundeswehr has eight minehunters and two mine-diver deployment boats. How many of these could be used is still unclear. Merz is not expected to give figures on Friday, according to the information.<\/p>\n
The Bundeswehr\u2019s minehunters, which are more than 50 metres long, have a core crew of 42 soldiers, which can be expanded by mine divers.<\/p>\n
For aerial surveillance, the navy has two P-8 Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft available, equipped with radar, acoustic systems and high-resolution optics.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"dpa Berlin Germany is prepared to contribute minehunters to a potential mission to secure the Strait of Hormuz…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":21467,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[99],"tags":[112,190,18124,34418,1381,34848,34849,25084,217],"class_list":["post-63400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-berlin","tag-berlin","tag-germany","tag-hormuz","tag-minehunters","tag-of","tag-offer","tag-secure","tag-strait","tag-to"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@dk\/116422438242750139","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63400","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=63400"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63400\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/dk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}