Aus einer Pressemitteilung des Landeskommandos Hamburg Am Freitag, 20. Februar 2026, wird die HNLMS MERCUUR im Hamburger Hafen erwartet. Das U-Boot-Unterstützungsschiff der Königlich Niederländischen Marine wird gegen 13:30 Uhr an der Überseebrücke festmachen und bleibt bis Montag, 23. Februar zu Gast in der Freien- und Hansestadt Hamburg. Die HNMLS MERCUUR...
The Littoral Combat Ships were once planned as an all-purpose weapon. Following the failure of the concept and a reorganisation, the last units will be commissioned this year. On 15 November 2025, the nineteenth and last ship of the INDEPENDENCE class, the PIERRE, was ceremoniously commissioned. The fifteenth and penultimate...
The new Dutch Combat Support Ship (CSS) "Den Helder" (179 metres, 22,400 tonnes) has officially been in royal service since mid-October. It is the first and probably only ship of this class to be built by Damen Shipyards in Galati/Romania and equipped in the Netherlands. She is intended to fill the logistical gap...
At the beginning of October, India celebrated the resurrection of the small submarine hunter, as it was mainly known from the Baltic Sea during the Cold War, with the commissioning of "Androth", the second "Anti-Submarine Warfare Shallow-Water Craft" (ASW-SWC), in Visakhapatnam. Previously planned with eight units, the corvette-sized Arnala class (78 metres, 900 tonnes) is intended to use the shallow...
While ten of the twelve Soryu boats (84 metres, 4,200 tonnes submerged) are still equipped with Saab Kockums' external air-independent propulsion system and only the last two of the construction series from 2020 have been fitted with lithium-ion batteries for propulsion, the Taigei boats (85 metres, 4,300 tonnes) developed from this class are exclusively battery-powered. "Sougei",...
The news is quite ordinary, the photo is absolutely worth seeing! "Aotearoa" (173 metres, 26,000 tonnes), New Zealand's ice-capable multipurpose fleet provider, which is so long and wide that it doesn't fit into any national dock, carried out its first routine maintenance phase in Singapore at Babcock/Seatrium after entering service in 2020. Needless to say that...
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