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Corvette defended incoming drone
On Oct 17, 2024, the "Ludwigshafen am Rhein", which has been deployed as part of the UN UNIFIL force off the Lebanese coast, fended off an incoming drone amid growing tensions in the region. The unmanned aircraft was brought down in a controlled manner off the coast of Lebanon using a defense system.
German corvette saved 121 migrants
On Mar 6, 206, the "Ludwigshafen" rescued 121 migrants from a distressed boat. The corvette responded alongside Spain’s “Numancia” frigate to a distress callin the early morning20 miles northwest of Tripoli. The 121 rescued people, among them seven women, have been handed to the EU’s Frontex external border agency.
Corvette saved 128 migrants and sank rubber boat
The "Ludwigshafen" saved 128 distressed migrants 80 kilometers NW of Tripolis on Feb 23, 2016, from a rubber boat and recovered one dead body from it which was transferred as well as the castaways, among them nine women and two children, onto the Italian patrol boat "Cigala Fulgosi" which also took on board the remainder on the rubber boat. The dead had boarded the boat in Libya already seriously ill and died underway. The rubber boat was sunk as a navigational hazard by the "Ludwigshafen" once the castaways were safe.
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