Workers of the Blohm+Voss shipyard in Hamburg found a steel chip within the engine of the brand new corvette of the German naval forces, the SewedDeutsche Zeitung and WDR and NDR tv and radio corporations say within the investigation of the German publication.
Dozens of kilograms of chips have been discovered within the engine whereas checking earlier than the primary launch of the ship to water. In response to specialists, if that they had not discovered chips, a major injury may very well be precipitated to Corvet. This might for a very long time detained the switch of the ship of the German Navy.
Journalists declare that the corvette may develop into the thing of sabotage. Who’s behind her is unclear. The consultant of the Blohm+VOSS and the German Navy refused to touch upon the alleged sabotage. The Hamburg prosecutor’s workplace and the prison police division additionally didn’t present any data.
The Commander-in-Chief of the Navy of the Federal Republic of Germany, Vice Admiral, Yang Christian Kaac, unequivocally didn’t verify the knowledge from the investigation of SueDdeutsche Zeitung, WDR and NDR, Writes Deutsche Welle. In response to him, saboteurs have repeatedly tried to wreck the ships, and since 2022 the German fleet has been taking particular measures to guard in opposition to such threats.
In response to SueDdeutsche Zeitung, the German Navy was going to make use of the Emden corvette to watch the ocean zone within the Baltic Sea as a part of NATO. Within the early 2000s, the German army ordered 5 such corvettes of sophistication 130. In 2017, the German authorities ordered a second batch-out of 5 extra ships. Their price amounted to about two billion euros.