Ocean currents as a source of energy: the French start-up "Normandie Hydroliennes" (NH) wants to generate energy using the power of the tides. The company is planning to build a field of "underwater wind turbines" on the seabed to convert the power of the ocean's movements into green electricity. Tidal power plant Wind, cooling processes on the surface of the water and the attractive forces of...
The world's first import corridor for liquid hydrogen through the Sultanate of Oman, the Netherlands and Germany has been agreed in a Joint Development Agreement (JDA). This corridor will connect the port of Duqm in Oman with Amsterdam in the Netherlands and important logistics centres in Germany, including Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG...
Stele opened to commemorate a different time The German Navy once again has a place in Kappeln - Olpenitz between the Baltic Sea and the Schlei. In the middle of the harbour, on the large square near a food market on the harbour promenade. A 2 metre high stele now stands there, commemorating the...
After Singapore presented its autonomous MARSEC platform for controlling the waterways off the coast of the city state at the beginning of the year, the island state of Taiwan, which is threatened by mainland China, has now also made its unmanned combat system for the defence of the Taiwan Strait and national waters public. Similar to the system successfully used by Ukraine, the...
Can you imagine going to work every day, on Saturdays and Sundays, seven days a week, for nine years in a row without a break and without pay? It's hard to imagine that this is exactly what happened to Syrian ship engineer Abdul Nasser Saleh against his will. Since 2012, the man had been permanently...
With the Strategic Defence Review 2025 (SDR), the UK is formulating a new security policy direction. The Labour government is focusing on conventional deterrence, nuclear modernisation and technological leadership in NATO. However, the plan is ambitious - and faces structural legacy issues and budgetary conflicts of interest. A turning point for British defence With the SDR, the UK has...
Recently, it has become fashionable to criticise European navies, especially the German Navy. Critics argue, among other things, that European NATO members are completely dependent on the United States for their maritime security and naval leadership in the alliance. The German Navy is criticised as a "Green Water Navy"...
Not at home in the north The NRV "Alliance" is a ship that you rarely see and hardly anyone knows. Even experienced naval personnel have never or rarely seen this ship. And now it's in the Baltic Sea! The research and measurement vessel of the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)...
On 28 June, the German Armed Forces Day will take place at ten locations across Germany under the motto "We are here". A special venue will be the Hanseatic city of Stralsund - known as the cradle of the navy - where the Bundeswehr will be opening its doors. This year, the Parow Naval Technology School is in charge of organising the event...
Major maritime manoeuvre BALTOPS starts for the first time in Rostock Baltic Operations, or BALTOPS for short, has been around for decades. It is NATO's most important US-led naval manoeuvre in the Baltic Sea. The multinational exercise usually lasts two weeks and ends in Kiel at the start of Kiel Week. Rather unnoticed for years, the...
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