On 25 December 2024, the tanker "Eagle S" lost its anchor and dragged for many miles across the seabed of the Baltic Sea. This resulted in damage to critical infrastructure. The captain and the ship's first and second officers were therefore charged with serious damage to five underwater cables of critical infrastructure.
On the day before the first Russian drone attack in Ukrainian waters on 28 August 2025, a US Navy P-8A Poseidon coming from Sicily (NAS Sigonella) and equipped with the AN/APS-154 Advanced Airborne Sensor had flown a reconnaissance mission across the Black Sea lasting several hours. The imminent Russian attack in the Danube Delta was...
Warship replaces tug On Monday, 10 November 2025 at 10 a.m., the tender "Elbe" will leave its home port of Kiel for the Aegean. The provider, which is part of the support squadron, will act as a command platform and thus fulfil the German contribution to NATO's Standing NATO Maritime Group 2.
The first Russian drone attack in Ukrainian waters on 28 August 2025 was preceded by a Ukrainian drone attack on a Buyan-M FK corvette in the Sea of Azov. This attack was carried out in a coordinated manner with a first drone against the sensors in the mast and a second drone directly against the superstructure. As a result, the ship was heavily...
The Armada is not entirely wrong when it says that the continued operation of a flying fixed-wing component on the carrier "Juan Carlos I" (and thus the carrier itself) can only be guaranteed by the purchase of a certain number of American Lockheed Martin F-35B 5th generation short/vertical take-off and landing (STOVL) jets. The...
For its special forces, the city-state has acquired a few mini-submarines that only a few countries have and about which little is reported in the media. These are the so-called CCUs (Combatant Craft Underwater), which can reach high speeds above water with a crew of two and six divers and are capable of...
The existing mutual defence pact between the USA and South Korea restricts Seoul's ability to use nuclear technology for defence purposes. The Trump administration has now agreed an amendment to this treaty with the South Korean government and wants to make the previously closely guarded technology for nuclear-powered submarines available to South Korea. The US President thus authorised the request...
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