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Wedel - "Willkomm Höft" ship welcome system active again
The town in the district of Pinneberg had publicised the fact that the tourist magnet on the Elbe is defective and, due to the poor budget situation, ...
From the steam operating theatre to high-tech simulation
FLASH - hostile air contact at bearing 090 distance 50 nm, it sounds on a Monday morning at 10:15 a.m. from a ...
AI against the silent threat under water - Helsing's glider
New underwater glider from Helsing On 13 May 2025, Helsing, a young Munich-based software developer, presented its new underwater glider at parallel events in Portsmouth and ...
Submarines - the capital ships of the Baltic Sea
Even the possible presence of submarines in a sea area binds the enemy forces. Because their core contribution to modern naval warfare is ...
Great Britain: Four destroyers receive DragonFire laser weapons
The kingdom wants to spend almost 3 billion euros on upgrading the weaponry of the Type 45 destroyers (Daring class) - not ...
Shipspotting: Corvette "Emden"
Underway on a test voyage in the North Sea - Baltic Sea Canal Corvette "Emden" in the lock The K 130 II class corvette. Go ...
Lithuania - small multi-purpose combat boats for the Baltic States
Lithuania procures Jehu-class combat boats - NATO cooperation in the Baltic region strengthens maritime security To strengthen regional maritime security, Finland, Latvia and Lithuania have ...
Combined Joint Task Forces fuelled by multi-domain operations
The Combined Joint Task Forces (CJTF) concept is a NATO concept proposed in 1994 and approved in 1996 by Allied force commands for the command and control of ...
Germany is not "not affected"
In the third edition of its "Institute Plenum", the German Maritime Institute once again posed a topical question on the security policy situation