Even 80 years after the end of the war, German waters still harbour masses of old munitions. But there is still no master plan for disposal. Over 1.6 million tonnes of conventional and chemical munitions are rusting at the bottom of the North and Baltic Seas - a legacy of two world wars and a time bomb in terms of both ecology and security policy. While Europe is...
It took almost a year for the Defence Committee in Washington to learn of the results of a series of tests conducted by the Navy in the middle of the year in which four different systems for defence against small UAS drones, known as counter-UAS (C-UAS), were evaluated. Back in August...
In November, the British Navy once again escorted two Russian warships through the English Channel. The British Ministry of Defence spoke of a round-the-clock shadowing operation. British media report that HMS "Severn" (P282), a 1,700-tonne River-class offshore patrol vessel, escorted the Russian multi-purpose corvette RFN "Stoikiy" (2,200 tonnes, project 20380 -...
The American aircraft carrier "USS Gerald R. Ford" (CVN 78), type ship of its class and currently flagship of Carrier Strike Group 12, was in the Barents Sea between Spitsbergen/Svalbard and Nordkapp together with a SAG (Surface Action Group) of four NATO navies for a fortnight at the beginning of September for joint operations. These exercises in the...
While the production of liquefied natural gas (LNG) has increased in West Africa and the USA, there are also delays in unloading at Egyptian LNG terminals. These delays have led to a shortage of available LNG transport capacity, with the result that freight rates have fallen dramatically in recent weeks.
From a press release by the German Aerospace Center (DLR) in Cologne: It weighs just six kilograms and is the size of a shoebox - but its interior makes it an observer of the world's oceans: the miniature satellite OTTER was launched into space on 28 November 2025. At 500 kilometres...
The first frigate newbuilding in the F-110 programme was launched at the state-owned Navantia shipyard in Ferrol on 11 September - one month ahead of schedule and with an equipment level of more than 70 percent! The godmother of the "Ramón Bonifaz" was Queen Sofía of Spain. The Bonifaz class (146 metres, 6,200 tonnes)...
Moscow has switched its economy to war production. If one of the state-owned defence companies such as the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), which is considered a "major supplier of military ships for the Russian Navy" under EU sanctions, starts to falter, things are going to get tight! USC, a conglomerate of various shipyards, was forced to go into...
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