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Germany Sends Frigate To Help Secure Red Sea Shipping

The "Hesse" frigate will be able to respond to potential Yemeni rebel attacks including from missiles, drones and remotely controlled "kamikaze boats", Germany's navy chief said (Credit: AFP)

A German navy frigate set sail for the Red Sea on Thursday with the aim of protecting commercial ships from attacks by Yemeni rebels, as part of a planned European Union mission.

The deployment marked "the most serious engagement of a unit of the German navy in many decades," navy chief Jan Christian Kaack told reporters in Berlin.

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