Oker (Class 423)
| Class 423 (Oste Class) class | |
|---|---|
 The Oker (A 53), 2009 in Hamburg |
|
| Overview | |
| Type | Fleet service boat |
| Shipyard | |
| Keel laying | 1986 |
| Namesake | Oker (river) |
| 1. Period of service |
|
| Commissioning | November 10, 1988 |
| home port | Eckernförde , Schleswig-Holstein |
| Technical specifications | |
| displacement |
|
| length |
83.5 m |
| width |
14.6 m |
| Draft |
4.20 m to 6.40 m |
| crew |
36 (Stamm) + 40 (emergency personnel 2. / EloKaBtl 912 ) |
| drive |
Humboldt-Deutz Diesel |
| speed |
20 knots |
| Range |
5,000 nm |
| Armament |
no |
The Oker (A 53) is a fleet service boat of the Oste class of the German Navy . The Oker belongs to Operation Flotilla 1 and there to the 1st submarine squadron with the home port Eckernförde . It is named after the river Oker in Lower Saxony.
description
The fleet service boats of the Oste class were designed as reconnaissance units during the Cold War . In the meantime, the area of responsibility of the Oker and its sister ships Oste and Alster has changed, as it has been expanded to include early warning and telecommunication tasks in cooperation with other units of German and international armed forces .
The current ship Oker was put into service on November 10, 1988 as the successor to the predecessor ship of the same name, a converted former side trawler . The old Oker was sold to the Greek Navy after her service from 1961–1988 and was used there for a few years.
Calls
From January 1999 the Oker was deployed in the Adriatic Sea as part of the Kosovo Verification Mission and then in the course of Operation Allied Force .
The Ministry of Defense rejected a report by Bild am Sonntag in August 2012 about a “spy boat off Syria ”, but confirmed that the Oker is used “in international waters in the eastern Mediterranean”. Although the mission, during which knowledge was also shared with other NATO partners, was described as routine, various opposition politicians doubted the compatibility of the mission with the UNIFIL mandate, especially if information from parties to the civil war should actually be used.
Web links
- Fleet service boat OSTE-Klasse (423) on the official website of the German Navy
- Fleet service boat Oker (A 53) on the website SchiffsSpotter.de
- Assad officers are said to have pushed for the use of poison gas
Individual evidence
- ↑ Battalion Electronic Warfare 912: About Us. Federal Ministry of Defense - The head of the press and information staff, July 9, 2018, accessed on October 23, 2019 .
- ^ Johannes Berthold Sander-Nagashima: The Federal Navy 1950 to 1972: Concept and Structure (= Security Policy and Armed Forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. Volume 4). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-486-57972-7 , p. 577.
- ↑ Oker moved to the Adriatic. In: Marineforum , Edition 3, 1999, p. 35.
- ↑ “No spy boat off Syria”. ( Memento from February 5, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) In: Tagesschau.de , August 19, 2012.
- ^ German Navy off Syria: It is routinely spied - taz, Aug. 20, 2012