Training flying personnel is time-consuming and cost-intensive. A look abroad shows how innovative concepts could increase the availability of personnel and material. At the beginning of April, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces, Eva Högl, was quoted as saying the following about the Bundeswehr: "The challenge with personnel is even greater than...
With the hull number 108, the Xianyang, the eighth destroyer of the Renhai class (Type 055), was officially presented to the public two months ago at the Dalian Shipbuilding Industry Company (DSIC) in the northern Chinese harbour complex of Dalian. A video praising the beauty and strength of this super destroyer - or FK cruiser - also serves this purpose....
An announcement published on the online platform for public procurement, TED, in mid-July shows that the project to salvage and destroy old munitions in the North and Baltic Seas is picking up speed. Apparently at a German pace. Federal Environment Minister Steffi Lemke announced an immediate programme at a kick-off conference on 17 February 2023...
Japan's navy exercises off the Russian-occupied Kuril Islands for the first time Japan - Six warships from the US, Japanese and Canadian navies conducted a week-long exercise in the northwest Pacific Ocean in August, stretching from the Russian-controlled Kuril Islands to the waters off Tokyo. Multinational and Joint Noble Chinook (Noble Wind) was...
On 31 August, the eve of International Anti-War Day, the Kilian Memorial Association opened its new exhibition "An anti-aircraft helper from Kiel - photos and memories of Hans Krohn". At the age of 15, Hans Krohn was also drafted as a naval helper in Kiel in 1944 and stationed at the Nordmark sports field in the anti-aircraft battery....
International experts meet at the invitation of GIDS and iFMS Naval officers and scientists from five continents recently exchanged views on maritime strategies and security in Hamburg's Speicherstadt warehouse district. They accepted an invitation from the German Institute for Defence and Strategic Studies (GIDS) and the interdisciplinary research focus Maritime Security (iFMS)...
In September 2021, Frigate Captain Kenneth Harms took command of the 1st Corvette Squadron in Warnemünde. Now he is turning his attention to new tasks. In an interview with marineforum, Harms summarises his time in Warnemünde. Your squadron is developing, what will you remember fondly and what worries you?
Even before its official commissioning, the US Navy sent its newest INDEPENDENCE-class Littoral Combat Ship (LCS), CANBERRA (LCS-30), to the Australian port city of Sidney for the ceremony on 22 July. This was the first time that a Navy ship was not commissioned in American waters.
The Class 404 tenders are due to be replaced in less than ten years. The navy wants the new ships to be able to take on additional tasks. The NVL shipyard has submitted an initial draft on this basis. In the target picture for the years after 2035, the naval command envisages six support units...
The car freighter Fremantle Highway, which caught fire off the Dutch coast on the night of 25 to 26 July, was brought into the nearest Dutch port of Eemshaven and moored there after more than a week in which the ship was in a critical condition. This incident caused a great deal of...
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