Largely unnoticed by the European media, the Chinese navy has experienced breathtaking growth in recent years, upsetting the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific region and posing a serious threat to American supremacy on the world's oceans. In purely numerical terms, the Chinese navy (People's Liberation Army - Navy,...
Commander of Operational Flotilla 1 takes positive stock The commander of Operational Flotilla 1, Flotilla Admiral Christian Walter Meyer, invited numerous guests from politics, business, science, associations and clubs as well as representatives of the navy to the tender "Donau" to experience the windjammer parade together at the end of Kiel Week 2025. The traditional "Sail...
A BAAINBw tender, which expired on 23 June, provides for all three Sachsen-class frigates to be equipped with external gateways by 2026. The aim is to integrate the NATO data link Link 22 and the Joint Range Extension Applications Protocol C, which stands for long-range satellite-based communication, as an interim solution. This measure...
The US Navy finally seems to have found an operational niche for the unloved LCS (Littoral Combat Ships) of the Freedom and Independence class: The hunt for drug smugglers in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific. Although expensive and difficult to maintain, the LCSs have the advantage of high manoeuvrability thanks to their water jet propulsion...
Procurement in Focus - New Opportunities for Europe's Industry The Maritime Security & Defence Conference (MS&D), long established as part of SMM - the leading international maritime trade fair - will take place as standalone event for the first time in 2025. On 25 November 2025, Hamburg Messe und Congress...
MS&D Special 2025: Europe's Maritime Security & Defence Conference returns ahead of schedule - Topic: Focus on procurement - Europe's industry facing new opportunities From a press release by SMM Hamburg A new stage for security and defence The Maritime Security & Defence Conference (MS&D), which has been an integral part of the SMM Hamburg...
According to a press release, thyssenkrupp Marine Systems has been awarded a major contract worth 800 million euros for the comprehensive modernisation of six type 212A submarines for the German Navy. The Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw) has concluded one of the largest service contracts in the company's history with tkMS. The...
At the NAWCWD (Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division, Naval Air Weapon Station China Lake, California) in early May, the BQM-34 Firebee jet-powered subsonic target presentation drone was successfully used for the first time as a carrier and simultaneously as a fire control launch platform for the "air launch" of a solid-fuel ramjet missile (hypersonic) as a demonstrator. Both the Firebee, a development from the 1950s, and the...
The International Day of Seafarers takes place every year on 25 June. The United Nations' International Maritime Organisation (IMO) launched this day of action in 2010 in order to draw public attention to the usually little-noticed concerns of seafarers and to honour their work. Every...
Alongside artificial intelligence, quantum technology is seen as one of the major technological fields of the future. Quantum sensor technology is an important area of this. What principles and technologies are behind the term and what is quantum sensor technology already doing today in maritime applications? Basically, the term quantum sensor technology serves to differentiate it from conventional sensors and describes...
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