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Armoured Corps Training Centre
The Armoured Corps Training Centre (german: Ausbildungszentrum Panzertruppen) in Munster is one of the German Army's training centres (''Zentren des Heeres'') with particular responsibility for the basic and continuation training of armoured troops, including the armoured and the mechanized infantry corps of the German Army. By tradition, the centre is nicknamed the Armoured Corps School (''Panzertruppenschule'') whose tasks it partly subsumed on 1 October 2007. Literature * External links Armoured Corps Training Centre German Army (1956–present) Bundeswehr [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bundeswehr
The ''Bundeswehr'' (, meaning literally: ''Federal Defence'') is the armed forces of the Federal Republic of Germany. The ''Bundeswehr'' is divided into a military part (armed forces or ''Streitkräfte'') and a civil part, the military part consisting of the German Army, the German Navy, the German Air Force, the Joint Support Service, the Joint Medical Service, and the Cyber and Information Domain Service. , the ''Bundeswehr'' had a strength of 183,638 active-duty military personnel and 81,318 civilians, placing it among the 30 largest military forces in the world, and making it the second largest in the European Union behind France. In addition, the ''Bundeswehr'' has approximately 30,050 reserve personnel (2020). With German military expenditures at $56.0 billion, the ''Bundeswehr'' is the seventh highest-funded military in the world, though military expenditures remain relatively average at 1.3% of national GDP, well below the (non-binding) NATO target of 2%. Germa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
General Der Panzertruppen
General der Panzertruppe () was a General of the branch OF8 rank of the German Army, introduced in 1935. A ''General der Panzertruppe'' was a Lieutenant General, above Major General (Generalleutnant), commanding a Panzer corps. Rank and rank insignia The rank was equivalent to the long established ''General der Kavallerie'', ''General der Artillerie'' and '' General der Infanterie''. The Wehrmacht also introduced ''General der Gebirgstruppe'' (mountain troops), ''General der Pioniere'' (engineers), '' General der Fallschirmtruppe'' (parachute troops), '' General der Flieger'' (aviators), ''General der Nachrichtentruppe'' (communications troops) and ''General der Luftnachrichtentruppe'' (air communications troops). Position In the present-day German Army, there is a ''General der Panzertruppen'', which is not a ''rank'' but a ''position'', who is usually a brigadier general ('' Brigadegeneral''). The General der Panzertruppen commands the Armoured Corps Training Centre. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heeresamt
The Army Office (german: Heeresamt, HA) in Cologne was one of the two command pillars of the German Army, alongside the Army Forces Command (''Heeresführungskommando, HFüKdo''), until both were merged to create the current Army Command (''Kommand Heer, KdoHeer''). This disbandment and merging was done according to the new direction of the Bundeswehr, and the 2011 Basing Concept (''Stationierungskonzept 2011''). At the time of its merger, the Army Office was made up 1,100 soldiers and civil servants who were responsible for the conceptual development of the Army, as well as its training and equipment. In addition the Army Office was responsible for the organisational structure of the Army, for issues to do with in-service systems, and for managing logistic support to the Army. Reporting to the Army Office were the Training Schools and Training Centres. The Army Office was subordinate to the General Staff A military staff or general staff (also referred to as army staff, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Transformation Der Bundeswehr
Transformation may refer to: Science and mathematics In biology and medicine * Metamorphosis, the biological process of changing physical form after birth or hatching * Malignant transformation, the process of cells becoming cancerous * Transformation (genetics), genetic alteration of a cell by DNA uptake In mathematics * Transformation (function), concerning functions from sets to themselves. For functions in the broader sense, see function (mathematics). **Affine transformation, in geometry ** Linear transformation between modules in linear algebra. Also called a linear map. *** Transformation matrix which represent linear maps in linear algebra. * Integral transform, between a function in one domain to a function in another * Natural transformation between functors in category theory. * Unitary transformation, between two Hilbert spaces * Geometric transformation, between sets of points in geometry ** Infinitesimal transformation, a limiting case of a geometrical trans ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Darmstadt
Darmstadt () is a city in the States of Germany, state of Hesse in Germany, located in the southern part of the Frankfurt Rhine Main Area, Rhine-Main-Area (Frankfurt Metropolitan Region). Darmstadt has around 160,000 inhabitants, making it the fourth largest city in the state of Hesse after Frankfurt am Main, Wiesbaden, and Kassel. Darmstadt holds the official title "City of Science" (german: link=no, Wissenschaftsstadt) as it is a major centre of scientific institutions, universities, and high-technology companies. The European Organisation for the Exploitation of Meteorological Satellites (EUMETSAT) and the European Space Operations Centre (ESOC) are located in Darmstadt, as well as Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung, GSI Centre for Heavy Ion Research, where several chemical elements such as bohrium (1981), meitnerium (1982), hassium (1984), darmstadtium (1994), roentgenium (1994), and copernicium (1996) were discovered. The existence of the following elements were also ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
