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  Trials and testing - Danish Army Vehicles Homepage
Four contenders for a Danish Army 4 x 4 armoured patrol vehicle (APV) requirement are undergoing trails in Denmark.
The testing was finished in December and the choice are to be made by the Danish Army Material Command in spring/summer 2001.
The Danish Army conducted the demonstrations, which took place at Borris Base Training Area, Denmark, as part of a development test of the new system.
www.armyvehicles.dk /trials.htm   (1436 words)

  
  Militaryphotos.net :: Battle of Lund Monument
Battle of Lund The Battle of Lund on December 4, 1676 was fought in an area north of the city of Lund in Sweden, between the invading Danish army and the army of Charles XI of Sweden.
During the fighting, the Danish commander Carl von Arensdorff was badly wounded, and the entire left wing was forced to retreat the battle at 10:00, severely crippling the Danish army.
Danish commander Arensdorff made the decision to halt the offensive on the Swedish center and instead tend to the enemy cavalry in the northwest.
media.militaryphotos.net /photos/album236   (1612 words)

  
  Royal Danish Army
The Royal Danish Army is the army of Denmark.
Recently the Royal Danish Army is undergoing a thorough modernization of equipment and training methods, including the replacement of the Leopard 1A5 tanks by Leopard 2A5, and M113 personnel carriers with the Swedish CV9030 infantry fighting vehicle.
The Royal Danish Army is committed to a number of UN peacekeeping operations, especially Bosnia.
www.xasa.com /wiki/en/wikipedia/r/ro/royal_danish_army.html   (272 words)

  
 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Nordic Seven Years' War
Bornholm is a Danish island in the Baltic Sea, to the east of Denmark, the south of Sweden, and the north of Poland (on the map of Denmark to the right, it is not shown in its true location; see the map at the bottom of the article).
In the beginning of the war the Danes advanced from Halland with an army of professional mercenaries of 25,000 strong and captured, after three days of bombardment and a 6 hours assault, Sweden’s gateway to the west, Älvsborg fortress, was lost on September 4th.
The Danish mercenary army was superior to the Swedish peasant army in all but one respect; the professional army would not fight until their pay was current.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Nordic-Seven-Years%27-War   (3513 words)

  
 Achtung Panzer ! - Invasion of Denmark
Danish Army was not in a position to challenge the German Army, because it only consisted of two infantry divisions (Zealand and Jutland), totally unprepared for war, since mobilization began on April 8 of 1940.
Danish airforce had some 50 to 110 obsolete planes divided between the navy and the land forces with some 800 men.
Opposing the Danish Army was German XXI Corps (composed of two infantry divisions and supporting units), commanded by Nikolaus von Falkenhorst.
www.achtungpanzer.com /articles/denmark.html   (473 words)

  
 HighBeam Encyclopedia – Free Online Encyclopedia for Reference, Research, Facts
Drachmann, Holger Henrik Herholdt 1846-1908, Danish poet and dramatist.
Holberg, Ludvig, Baron 1684-1754, Danish dramatist, essayist, poet, and historian, apostle of the Enlightenment in Scandinavia.
He studied law in Copenhagen intermittently from 1841 to 1850, fought in the Danish army, and after his return to Iceland was prefect of various districts...
www.encyclopedia.com /category/Literature_and_the_Arts/Literature_in_Other_Modern_Languages/scanlitbio.html   (3053 words)

  
 English version of "espingolen"
To ensure secrecy, Danish army officers had to swear an oath of silence to be admitted to the rocket corps.
However, when the Danish troops advanced beyond the range of the espingols sited at the Danish infantry's initial line of engagement, the cumbersome espingols lacked the mobility to immediately accompany the advancing Danish infantry units and thus provide them with constant close support, particularly in the difficult terrain over which the action was fought.
Still, many Danish army officers and clerks in the Danish war ministry doubted the continued usefulness of the espingol and, therefore, little was done to explore what advantages the espingol could offer the Danish army in case of war.
www.sunewad.dk /espingol_eng.htm   (2465 words)

  
 Denmark Army flags   (Site not responding. Last check: )
This is a Danish army company marker from the 1864 war, containing the identification of the regiment and the company.
The Danish main army had withdrawn from a position further south (Dannevirke, at Schleswig town) and had taken a position at Dybbøl on the peninsula of Sundeved, to be a flank threat to any German (incl.
From here the Danish army would still be a flank threat, as the strait (and the sea around North Germany) was controlled by the Danish navy.
www.crwflags.com /fotw/flags/dk^army.html   (1511 words)

  
 Major Contract with the Danish Army
The Danish Army Materiel Command has just signed a contract for the delivery of a unified solution for planning, launching and surveying the army's mobile communications network.
When the Danish International Brigade is out in the field, it employs its own mobile communications network (DEOS) to establish safe communications between own units and allied units - independently of civil infrastructure which may well be non-existing as is often the case.
Project Manager in Systematic, Jeppe Buk, explains that the Danish Army is about to receive a solution which is quite ahead when it comes to technology and functionality.
www.systematic.dk /UK/About+Us/News/Major+Contract+with+the+Danish+Army.htm   (398 words)

  
 Denmark (08/06)
The Danish Film Institute, one of the oldest in Scandinavia, offers daily public screenings of Danish and international movies in their original language and plays an active role in the maintenance and restoration of important archival prints.
Danish cultural direction differs from other countries with a Ministry of Culture and a stated policy in that special laws govern each cultural field--e.g., the Theater Act of 1990 (as amended) and the Music Law of 1976 (as amended).
Danish forces were heavily engaged in the former Yugoslavia in the UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR), as well as in NATO's Operation Joint Endeavor/Stabilization Force in Bosnia and Herzegovina (IFOR/SFOR) and the Kosovo Force (KFOR).
www.state.gov /r/pa/ei/bgn/3167.htm   (5335 words)

  
 Danish Army at www.great-travel-france.com
Red danish army cattle have been intensively improved for dairy purposes in Denmark.
Imported bulls were mated with odier breeds in the United States, and the offspring were also bred to Red danish army bulls.
He is an alumnus of The Royal danish army Academy of Fine Arts in Copenhagen (1978-85), first under Sven Dalsgaard and subsequently Hein Heinsen.
www.great-travel-france.com /danish-army.html   (216 words)

  
 Non-Danish vehicles - Danish Army Vehicles Homepage
Over the years soldiers from the Danish army has operated vehicles not owned by the Danish armed forces in missions around the world.
In Kuwait the Danish Contingent operated at least one MAN KAT 1 truck.
In Macedonia the Danish soldiers used a SISU XA-180 APC to perform patrols in the area.
www.armyvehicles.dk /ndv.htm   (167 words)

  
 ARRC trains Danish Army in geo skills
For the past two years, the Danish Army, have been training with the ARRC during exercises to learn enough for an instructor to take the knowledge he has learned and train Danish geo soldiers.
Once the Danish geo soldiers are trained and equipped, they will be a valuable asset for the ARRC to employ during operation.
The Danish contingent attached to the 14th Sqd was given a task in the first week of Fusion.
www.arrc.nato.int /update/2004/danish_geo.htm   (342 words)

  
 The War of 1864
In December 1863 Allied troops entered Holstein without interference from the Danish army and demanded that the Danish forces be withdrawn from Schleswig, The Danes rejected this ultimatum and on the 1st of February 1864 the war began.
On the night of the 5th of February the Danish army retreated from the Dannevirke positions leaving behind most of their guns.
On the 9th of May, the same day as the Danish Navy defeated a combined Austrian-Prussian navy at the battle of Helgoland, a truce were negotiated and a peace conference was initiated in London with participants from most of the European countries.
www.milhist.dk /1864/1864/1864.html   (1294 words)

  
 Udenrigsministeriet   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Political, social, and economic exclusion of large parts of the population, inadequate and non-responsive government, and lack of good governance as well as corruption are important factors.
Danish assistance has a positive impact on development in Nepal and contributes effectively to poverty reduction.
Another example of Danish support to poverty reduction is our support for the development of the Forestry Sector.
www.um.dk /en/menu/AboutUs/TheMinisterForDevelopmentCooperation/SpeechesOfTheFormerMinisterBertelHaarder/NepalInConflictSpeechTheMinisterForIntegrationAndForDevelopmentCooperation.htm?WBCMODE=presentationunpubl   (2182 words)

  
 Al Jazeera English - Archive - Danish Officers Recalled Over Torture   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Danish Defence Minister Soren Gade told national TV he was recalling the officers after a meeting with the auditors investigating allegations of prisoner abuse during interrogations at
Several Danish soldiers stationed in Iraq are being investigated for abusing and torturing prisoners, according to a Danish military spokesman on Tuesday.
Those suspected of having committed the abuses "were denounced by their colleagues, which is positive and which shows that there is a high degree of self-imposed justice among the Danish soldiers, who refuse to participate in any form of torture and who say it", Mathisen said.
english.aljazeera.net /NR/exeres/C47C701E-D607-4035-A036-2C8921A03695.htm   (498 words)

  
 Danish troops in Iraq being kept safely from the action: Danish sergeant   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Noltensmejer, who has spent 30 years in the army, is part of a scouting squadron stationed at Camp Eden near Qurnah, in the region of the southern city of Basra, which is under British command.
Noltensmejer claimed that the Danish officers in Iraq, along with the top brass back in Denmark have realized that most of the Danish soldiers are not trained for the missions expected of them in the war-torn country.
The fact that only one Danish soldier has died Iraq -- killed by friendly fire -- since the Scandinavian country started sending troops there last year, has little to do with their skills, and a lot to do with the fact that they rarely leave their base, Noltensmejer charged.
www.spacewar.com /2004/040106190906.4ko0oq2s.html   (354 words)

  
 DefendAmerica News - Article
The Marines and Danish airfield recovery specialists’ primary jobs are very comparable, with the main difference being they work with different aircrafts, the Danish with the F-16 and the Marines working with the F-18.
The Danish airmen are currently trying to even further the two Marines education by attempting to reserve them a slot in the Bac-12 Arresting Barrier certification school in Denmark.
The Danish airmen had never worked with American service members before their deployment here, and they admit the first time they heard they were going to help Marines, they were a little apprehensive.
www.defendamerica.mil /articles/jul2003/a072403e.html   (734 words)

  
 Royal Danish Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
As a part of the Danish Armys contribution to the collective NATO defence Danmark has a Mechanized Division assigned to the Multinational Corps Northeast, the NATO MNC NE consists of the Danish Division (18,000 troops) the 14th German Mechanized Infantry Division (19,000 troops) and the 12th Polish Mechanized Division (12,000 troops).
The Royal Danish Army is committed to a number of UN and NATO peacekeeping operations, especially in Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan.
The structure of the Royal Danish Army changed in 2001, when all of the remaining infantry regiments were amalgamated together, leaving just four remaining combat regiments, two cavalry and two infantry - the functions of the infantry were spread amongst three of these.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Royal_Danish_Army   (517 words)

  
 Army Times - News - More News.   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Danish and French nurses and medics were on hand at the checkpoint to check feet and treat blisters.
Davis, a South Carolina Army National Guard soldier, had previously served in Afghanistan as an embedded trainer with the Afghan National Army.
The six in the U.S. Army contingent at this awards parade may have been the smallest unit on the field, but their U.S. flag shoulder patches made their presence among their NATO comrades-in-arms readily visible.
www.armytimes.com /story.php?f=1-292925-559909.php   (667 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The Danish troops initially found 36 shells, exposed by rain, in the ground outside a village near Qurnah in southern Iraq on Friday.
The Danish army’s Camp Eden is near Qurnah.
Michelsen said the Danish troops have dug up a total of 50 shells so far and at least 50 more are believed under ground.
www.armytimes.com /print.php?f=1-292925-2553242.php   (564 words)

  
 Danmark-Norge
The Danish enlisted infantry regiments normally in their German name versions have the prefix geworbne (enlisted) to differ the regiments from the national regiments, which were second line regiments mainly raised for fortress service in time of war.
It was not allowed for Danish nor foreign recruiting officers to enlist Norweigians in Norway, only for the guard regiments is was allowed to seek recruits there and so the Norweigians were ceratinly not used to the harsh methods of maintaining discipline used in the German speaking armies of the time.
Under that title a set of drawings from 1758 excists in the Army Archives, originating from when the king ordered all regiments in Denmark to send in drawings of the uniforms they wore, so that it could be decided, how it should be from 1759-61 when new uniforms were to be issued.
vial.jean.free.fr /new_npi/revues_npi/43_2005/npi_4305/43_danish_uniform1.htm   (1509 words)

  
 The Danish Army on April 9th, 1940, Part 1
The Danish troops were scattered in the woods during the fighting, and the woods were finally surrounded by German armoured cars and tanks (unknown type, but perhaps a Pz I or Pz II), thus forcing the Danish soldiers to surrender.
For information regarding Danish army uniforms refer to The Danish Infantry Uniforms and Equipment through-out The Past 200 Years; for information regarding organization (in wargame format) refer to The Danish Army 1940.
The colour illustrations of the Danish Army used in this article are drawn by Christian Würgler Hansen and derive from a sheet (A4 format) which came as enclosure with the magazine Chakoten, in the early 1990'ies.
www.chakoten.dk /dan_army_090440_1.html   (1700 words)

  
 Danish Forces mod - Ghost Recon.net Forums
However, the Royal Danish Army mod can be used on it's own, and having the Jægerkorpset and Frømandskorpset mods activated at the same time, whether activated alongside the Royal Danish Army mod or not), will cause conflicting issues.
One of the Danish Army guys playing the role of terrorist was wearing a standard olive green jacket with wooly hat and Danish camo trousers and webbing, and from the looks of it, he didn't have on any body armour.
I have pics of Danish Royal Engineer corps in Telic, and a Danish female royal engineer is among them (wearing full Danish Army desert camo rig and carrying a C8).
www.ghostrecon.net /forums/index.php?showtopic=30908&mode=threaded&pid=339715   (2586 words)

  
 Denmark
The Swedish factory Landsverk AB built the armor to the drawings made by the Danish army, and it was put on top of a Harley Davidson armed with a light machinegun.
The Danish army fought German armored cars and PzKpfw 1 from motorbikes armed with a 20 mm Madsen machinegun on the morning of the 9th of April 1940.
The Danish words for vengeance and the word for victory hasn't got a V, so it was just to use Churchill V and to throw the German V back on the Nazis, that they used the V3.
mailer.fsu.edu /~akirk/tanks/denmark/denmark.html   (2994 words)

  
 Stars and Stripes: Danish army sports shaggy look at Grafenwöhr training
In the Danish army, which has units training at Grafenwöhr, Germany, this week, long hair, beards and unisex showers for its male and female soldiers are par for the course.
But in the Danish army, which has units training at Grafenwöhr this week, long hair, beards and unisex showers for male and female soldiers are par for the course.
Danish Leopard 2 tank gunner Lance Cpl. Rune Rossen, 25, who also is clean-shaven and short-haired, said training at Grafenwöhr is very different than in Denmark, where, as a safety measure, gunnery happens only on the coast.
www.stripes.com /article.asp?section=104&article=53398&archive=true   (747 words)

  
 "AXIS & FOREIGN LEGION MILITARIA
Meanwhile a separate inclusive Danish volunteer formation was in the plans by the Germans with the approval of the Danish Government.
This formation was open to men who were currently in the Danish armed forces or who had completed their conscript service within a period of ten years.
On 5 December, the Freikorps was dispatched to the southern wing of the 1st SS Infantry Brigade.
axis101.bizland.com /DanishFeldpost.htm   (1382 words)

  
 Danish army captain charged over Iraq prisoner abuse. 04/08/2004. ABC News Online
The 37-year-old intelligence officer "used illegal interrogation methods", according to Benny Holm Frandsen, the head of the army's auditing committee, which is in charge of investigating allegations that several Danish soldiers stationed at Camp Eden in Iraq abused prisoners.
Danish Defence Minister Soeren Gade on Tuesday ordered the immediate recall of the Danish battalion commander Henrik Flash, along with three other superior officers, stating that he had lost confidence in them since they had failed to stop the violations.
Working for the Danish contingent's intelligence unit, Hommel, who has a university degree and who used to work for both the foreign ministry and the Danish parliament, was responsible for making the Iraqi prisoners talk.
www.abc.net.au /news/newsitems/200408/s1169105.htm   (386 words)

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