Royal Danish Navy
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 recovery and prevention as well as contributions to international tasks and forces.
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| Size | 3,400 personnel + 200 conscripts
16 ships, 28 vessels and 30 boats |
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| Engagements | Swedish War of Liberation (1510–23)
Count's Feud (1534–36) Nordic Seven Years' War (1563–70) Kalmar War (1611–13) Torstenson War (1643–45) Second Nordic War (1657–60) Scanian War (1675–79) Great Nordic War (1700 & 1709–20) Punitive expedition against Barbary (1769–70) Battle of Copenhagen (1801) Battle of Copenhagen (1807) Gunboat War (1807–14) First Schleswig War (1848–51) Second Schleswig War (1864) Operation Safari (1943) Operation Desert Shield (1990–91) Operation Sharp Guard (1993–96) Operation Iraqi Freedom (2003) Combined Task Force 150 (2008– ) Combined Task Force 151 (2009– ) |
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INSIGNIA
AIRCRAFT FLOWN
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