Royal Danish Navy

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The Royal Danish Navy (RDN; Danish: Søværnet, lit. 'The Navy') is the sea-based branch of the armed forces of Denmark. The RDN is mainly responsible for maritime defence and maintaining the sovereignty of Danish territorial waters, which include those of 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. During the period 1509–1814, when Denmark was in a union with Norway, the Danish Navy was part of the Dano-Norwegian Navy. Until the copenhagenization of the navy in 1801, and again in 1807, the navy was a major strategic influence in the European geographical area, but since then its size and influence has drastically declined with a change in government policy. Despite this, the navy is now equipped with a number of large state-of-the-art vessels commissioned since the end of the Cold War. This can be explained by its strategic location as the NATO...

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