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The Royal Danish Navy ( Danish: Søværnet, lit. 'The Navy') is the sea-based branch of the Danish Armed Forces force. The RDN is mainly responsible for maritime defence and maintaining the sovereignty of Danish territorial waters (incl. Faroe Islands and Greenland ). Other tasks include surveillance, search and rescue, icebreaking, oil spill ...
The Royal Danish Defence College (Danish: Forsvarsakademiet; FAK) is an independent authority in the Armed Forces under the Armed Forces Commander's Defense Command, which provides training, research, advice, and consultancy services in core military areas. The activities of the Defense Academy primarily target the staff of the Armed Forces ...
The purpose of the Danish Defence is to prevent conflicts and war, preserve the sovereignty of Denmark, secure the continuing existence and integrity of the independent Kingdom of Denmark and further a peaceful development in the world with respect to human rights. This is defined in Law no. 122 of 27 February 2001 which took effect 1 March 2001.
The Royal Danish Naval Band ( Danish: Søværnets Tamburkorps), which is the sole musical ensemble in the Danish Navy, is a unit of the Royal Danish Naval Academy. In is composed of 24 musicians who play a wide range of instruments, including piccolos, althorns, and the euphonium. It has been active since 1964 and is based in Copenhagen.
An RDAF Supermarine Spitfire on display at the Stauning Aircraft Museum Danish Air Force AW101 hoisting from water. The Royal Danish Air Force (RDAF) was formed as a military service independent from the army and navy in 1950 from the merger of the Danish Army Air Corps (Danish: Hærens Flyvertropper) founded on 2 July 1912 [8] and the Danish Naval Air Service (Danish: Marinens Flyvevæsen ...
The Danish Defence IT Agency ( Danish: Forsvarets Koncernfælles Informatiktjeneste, abbrev. FKIT) is a joint service under the Danish Defence Command, tasked with service and support of IT-equipment in the Danish Armed Forces. In 2014, it was placed under the control of the Acquisition and Logistics Organization. [4]
The Royal Danish Navy ranks follows the NATO system of ranks and insignia, as does the rest of the Danish Defence.Outside this ranking system there are physicians (who may wear the same insignia in the Army/Air Force but with a slight variation in the Navy), nurses and veterinarians, while priests and judicial personnel wear completely different insignia and are without rank.
In March 2019, a variant of Denmark's Iver Huitfeldt class emerged as a front-runner for the Indonesian Navy 's US$ 720 million two-frigate acquisition programme. [ 22] The Indonesian Navy expected to purchase two Iver Huitfeldt -class frigates, with a budget plan of US$720 million for its MEF Phase 3 in 2020–2024.