In view of the Chinese navy's unabated bullying behaviour towards the Philippine units in the South China Sea, Japan has agreed to make its six Abukuma frigates (109 metres, 2,500 tonnes) available to the island state after their imminent decommissioning. Although these ships have over thirty years of service under their keels,...
After almost seven years of legal wrangling, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence and the Spanish shipyard Navantia reached an out-of-court settlement in the case of the frigate "Helge Ingstad", which sank in 2018, at the beginning of June. The settlement stipulates that Navantia will receive discounts of almost 50 million euros on maintenance and modernisation work on the ship over the next six years.
As a strategic hub between Central and South America, between the Caribbean and the Pacific, as well as the most important drug trafficking routes from South to North, Colombia has a small but very agile navy. The country receives a great deal of material support from the USA (guard boats) and South Korea (2 corvettes), as well as operational support from the USA. Germany...
Imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) have picked up speed in recent months, reaching a new high following the launch of the first terminal in Wilhelmshaven in December 2022. In mid-June, a total of three terawatt hours of natural gas were fed into the German grid within a week, roughly the same amount as a German...
Since the start of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the German Navy has once again focussed on the Baltic Sea. The crews of the 1st Corvette Squadron are well equipped to defend against the various threats. In recent years, the German Navy's corvettes have been deployed on missions in the Mediterranean - but...
At the beginning of June, the Canadian frigate "Calgary" with its striking camouflage livery completed a general overhaul that lasted more than two years - including the planning lead time and the reactivation phase that is now beginning, it will have been more than three years in the shipyard. She was the second unit of the twelve Halifax-class patrol frigates (135 metres, 4,800 tonnes) to be built after...
The Defiant, a prototype of a potentially armed, medium-sized unmanned surface vehicle, is undergoing several months of sea trials this spring. In future, the boats will be able to perform a variety of different tasks autonomously. USX-1 was developed on behalf of the Pentagon's technology agency, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (Darpa). The programme...
Constantly under power, wind or sun, always wide awake, hear and see everything, under and above water, but never seasick! The Danish Ministry of Defence has put four Voyager naval drones from US manufacturer Saildrone into service in order to be able to detect and fend off potential espionage and sabotage attempts on critical infrastructure at an early stage. The autonomous vehicles are controlled by...
The Royal Netherlands Navy operated together with the Belgian and Estonian navies as part of the "Sandy Coast 25" exercise. The focus this year was on protecting Eemshaven on the Ems estuary, which is important for the transit of NATO military equipment and the harbour of Delfzijl on the Ems, as well as...
The order volume includes generator sets, propulsion units and systems such as methanol treatment and exhaust gas aftertreatment. In September 2025, TKMS signed contracts with three suppliers to procure the propulsion technology for the new Polarstern on behalf of the Alfred Wegener Institute. The aim is to utilise technologies that enable particularly low-noise and low-emission research at sea and in...
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