Bridging the Gap (English) - PDF

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December 2022 (in English)

Size: 108 pages

Content includes:

• Strenghtening Military Mobility (Dr. Thomas Kauffmann, Managing Director and Vice President GDELS International Business & Services)
• We Enable Mobility (Dr. Christian Kauth, Managing Director and Vice President, GDELS–Bridge Systems)
• „Aluminium is the best combination of the disadvantages of all possible materials.“ Interview with Dr. Christian Kauth, GDELS–Bridge Systems

• Building Bridges over the Centuries. Continuities and technical change: from antiquity to today, engineers master similar challenges (Andreas Himmelsbach)
• 70 Years of Experience in the Construction of Amphibious Bridge Systems (GDELS–Bridge Systems)

• Military Mobility and Interoperability from an EU-NATO perspective (Lieutenant Colonel Holger Poeppe)
• Solutions for NATO’s Current and Future Gap Crossing Capability
• The CEPA Project “Military Mobility” Interview with Lieutenant General (ret.) Ben Hodges, Senior Advisor Human Rights First
• Rail Loading Ramps (GDELS–Bridge Systems)
• Interoperability of Floating Bridge Systems (GDELS–Bridge Systems)
• GDELS’ Bridging Helps Underpin UK, NATO Mobility and Interoperability (Tim Guest)
• The German/British Amphibious Engineer Battalion 130 (Lieutenant Mario Kissel)
• Establishment of the German/British Amphibious Engineer Battalion 130 Minden 30.09.2021 (Lieutenant General Alfons Mais, Chief of the German Army)
• Military Mobility – Core Element of a Credible NATO Strategy (Lieutenant General (ret.) Heinrich Braus)

• The Floating Bridge Family IRB-M3-HYDRA (GDELS–Bridge Systems)
• Evolution of the Amphibian M3. How constant development has kept the M3 amphibious bridge and ferry system up-to-date over the decades (GDELS–Bridge Systems)
• A New Approach to Mobility (GDELS–Bridge Systems)
• Flexibility Follows Function (GDELS–Bridge Systems)
• Use of VIPER Bridge System by the U.S. Marine Corps (GDELS–Bridge Systems)
• MAMBA – The All-Rounder (GDELS–Bridge Systems)
• Testing the limits of the Improved Ribbon Bridge (Carol C. Coleman)
• GDELS–BS – the Partner for High Military Load Class Equipment (GDELS–Bridge Systems)

• Building Bridges and Interoperability in a Strong Europe. River-Crossing Operations during
• Exercise Anakonda 16 (Major James M. Kadel and Captain Olufemi O. Apata)
• Wet Gap Crossing. Keys to success, doctrine, principles and Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures from inside a Multi-Role Bridge Company (1st Lt Taylor M. Ross and Cpt Russell L. Bettencourt)
• Future of Gap Crossing in the Royal Netherlands Army  (Captain Elmar J. Hoogterp)
• Medium Gap Crossing (Captain Elmar J. Hoogterp)
• M3 Meets Swedish Requirements for Cold Weather Operations (Erik Wistedt)
• Operational in Iraq with GDELS’ Bridging (Tim Guest)
• The MAMBA in Service with the Austrian Armed Forces (Lieutenant Colonel Stefan Schulz)
• Mobility Support Equipment for the Republic of Korea Armed Forces (Hanwha Defense)
• Future Strategy of Engineer Operations for Water and Dry Obstacles – from the Perspective of the German Army Corps of Engineers (Lieutenant Colonel Michael Frick and Captain Torsten Patzak)

• Floods: Involving the Bundeswehr in Disaster Management (Juliane Thümmel)
• Disaster Protection Deployment of Military Bridges in the Bundeswehr (GDELS–Bridge Systems)
• The Amphibious Bridge and Ferry System M3 has proven itself in numerous missions. Interview with Colonel Jorg Busch, German Army Engineer School

• Quality Assurance at General Dynamics European Land Systems-Bridge Systems (GDELS–Bridge Systems)
• How do we learn in the future? About the future of learning from a technical and didactic point of view (Dr. Uwe Katzky and Klaus Bock-Müller)
• Welding like Professionals. The General Dynamics European Land Systems-Bridge Systems
• Welding Centre (GDELS–Bridge Systems)

• PoBo Development Project. „Development of an Improved, Multifunctional Pontoon Boat“ (GDELS–Bridge Systems)
• General Dynamics European Land Systems presents Pontoon Boat in Hamburg (GDELS–Bridge Systems)
• Autonomously Operating Reconnaissance Unit – BASILISK (GDELS–Bridge Systems)
• Civilian Bridges for Disaster Control and Construction (GDELS–Bridge Systems)

• GDELS participated in the NATO event Wide Wet Gap Crossing (WWGC) in Ingolstadt (Germany) (GDELS–Bridge Systems)