At the beginning of August, Canberra surprised everyone with the news that the Japanese design of the "modified Mogami class" had been selected as the successor to the multi-purpose frigates of the ageing Anzac class. The revised export design of the frigates already in service with the Japanese Navy (JMSDF) - albeit with slightly larger dimensions, newer sensors and more powerful armament - is said to have been...
Firing exercise with IRIS-T SLM on the F125 off Andøya Extensive missile firing phases are currently taking place at the Andøya test site in Norway. These include the firing of the frigate "Baden-Württemberg" with the IRIS-T SLM air defence system, which has already been completed. The F125 class frigate was specially retrofitted with a navalised version of the IRIS-T SLM system for this test....
70 years of the Bundeswehr: Bremen State Command and Bundeswehr-Sozialwerk e.V. invite you to a benefit concert in Bremerhaven Bremerhaven - On Tuesday, 28 October 2025, the Bremen State Command and the Bundeswehr-Sozialwerk e.V. invite you to a benefit concert in the Bürgermeister- Smidt-Gedächtniskirche in Bremerhaven. On this evening, we want to honour the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Bundeswehr together and...
German security and defence industry is not unprepared As Dr Hans Christoph Atzpodien, Managing Director of the BDSV, announced in a press release, the "latest announcements by the People's Republic of China (...) have not caught our industry unprepared. The same applies to the EU Commission and the German government, which are concerned with the security of supply for critical and...
The Fassmer shipyard in Berne has been a successful and internationally recognised shipbuilding company for five generations and is a fascinating example of entrepreneurial perseverance, technical innovation and family continuity. The history of the shipyard begins in 1850 with the boatbuilder Johannes Fassmer. Founded as a one-man business in Berne-Bardenfleth in the Wesermarsch district of Lower Saxony, the company initially built small wooden...
German shipping companies are concerned about the geopolitical and trade situation in the world. The President of the German Shipowners' Association (VDR), Gabi Bornheim, said at the beginning of the year that around 62 per cent of German exports and 60 per cent of imports are handled by sea and emphasised that without a strong, independent merchant shipping industry,...
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