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...
The launch of the "Vitse-Admiral Burilichev" (project 22011, 108 metres, 5,200 tonnes), a research vessel that is, however, subordinate to the Deep Sea Research Department (GUGI) of the Ministry of Defence, took place quietly and just before the Finnish border in Vyborg, far away from any journalistic curiosity. It is from there that the communications infrastructure of Western countries is...
By using innovative technologies, the German Navy was able to digitalise its mine countermeasure chain during the RepMus 2025 manoeuvre. Autonomous systems played a key role in this. In Sesimbra, Portugal, a US team from San Diego deploys an autonomous Remus drone (Remote Environmental Monitoring Unit System) from an inflatable boat into the turquoise waters. The autonomously operating underwater vehicle...
The country in the interior of the South American continent - one of two states without direct access to the sea - relies heavily on its navy to secure its borders, as around 60% of its national border lies in the centre of the Paraguay, Parana, Apa and Pilcomayo rivers. However, Paraguay is also considered...
A volunteer lifeboat crew from the UK's Royal National Lifeboat Institution (RNLI) came to the aid of the RoRo vessel belonging to Finnish shipping company Finnlines after the ship made a distress call in the early morning of 11 November 2025. The cause was a fire in the engine room around 20 kilometres south-east of Eastbourne/East Sussex. When the lifeboat crew...
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