German frigate Bayern since her commissioning, including deploying in the Adriatic in 1999 during Operation Allied Force, the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia. Between April and November 2005 she served as the flagship for Wolfgang Kalähne, Commander-in-Chief of Standing NATO Maritime Group 2. "Bayern" was deployed with the Group in various manoeuvres, and to support Operation Active Endeavour. Between September 2007 to March 2008 "Bayern" was the flagship of Hans-Christian Luther, Commander-in-Chief of the Maritime Task Force of the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon. In late January 2008 "Bayern" came to the assistance of the container ship "Gevo Victory", which was in distress
Germany–Kurdistan Region relations missiles, 30 rocket launchers, panzerfaust rockets, G-3 and G-36 assault rifles and ammunition. From April to May 2015, five planeloads of military aid was dispatched for Kurdistan Region. In October 2015, Defece Minister von der Leyen stated that 4,700 Kurdish soldiers had been trained. In January 2016, Germany opened a training base in Erbil to train more Kurdish soldiers. In August 2016, the German government mulled to send more military aid to Kurdistan Region, as a spokesperson from the German defense ministry stated that 70 tonnes of weapons had already been sent. The shipment was received by Kurdish authorities in