Wilhelmshaven - Under the motto: "The world is coming to Bremerhaven - and you are right in the middle of it", the city of Bremerhaven is celebrating Sail 2025 from 13 August 2025 to 17 August 2025, with the frigate "Bayern" and the sail training ship "Gorch Fock" taking part. The "Gorch Fock" will be launched on 13 August 2025...
Class 124 frigates were once ahead of their time. However, the rapidly advancing development of their main sensor in particular has required an upgrade for years. Only recently, the Marineforum asked the question "Quo Vadis F124?" at the end of the article congratulating the frigate Sachsen on its 20th anniversary of commissioning. In the meantime, the inspector...
A company from the US state of Vermont has been awarded a fixed-price contract worth around 460 million euros for the scrapping, recycling and disposal of the former USS "Enterprise" (CVN-65). The work in Mobile, Alabama, is due to be completed by November 2029. When it was commissioned in 1961, the historic "Enterprise" was the world's...
After Ukrainian surface drones had already managed to take out a combat helicopter before the turn of the year, two further successes followed at the beginning of May: a Su-30 Flanker fighter jet was hit first, followed shortly afterwards by a second. We waited a long time for images of the new Magura V7 drone, a further development of the well-known...
The Port of Hamburg wants to be faster than the European Union. According to the Senator for Economic Affairs, Dr Melanie Leonhard (SPD), cruise ships will have to use the green shore power available in the port from 2027. In the EU, the regulation does not apply until 2030. The obligation to use shore-side electricity applies to all ships that are technically...
The partnership between Rheinmetall and EuroAtlas was announced on 6 August 2025: The GREYSHARK™ autonomous underwater vehicle is to be integrated into the Battlesuite™ digital combat architecture. The common goal: an operational system for maritime surveillance, infrastructure protection and reconnaissance below the military threshold. Autonomous, enduring, networked GREYSHARK™ is a heavy-duty AUV of the 6-...
What is the situation regarding the recruitment of new recruits for the navy? An interview update with the head of the Bundeswehr's career centre in Wilhelmshaven Captain Christian Clausing has one of those jobs that makes you think of "Mission Impossible". Nevertheless, the 52-year-old, with whom marineforum spoke for the first time last year,...
In the summer of 2025, the Russian Navy deployed surface units and a conventional submarine between the Baltic Sea, the North Atlantic and the Mediterranean. The deployments were visibly and operationally closely interlinked. What can be seen as a reaction to NATO activities is also an expression of strategic adaptation and political signalling at sea. Frigate rotation: "Admiral Grigorovich" in the...
Focus on recruiting young talent On Saturday, 9 August 2025 at 12 noon, the sail training ship "Gorch Fock" will leave its home port of Kiel for a very special voyage, a late summer voyage, as part of the 187th/188th foreign training voyage. On Tuesday, 5 August 2025, the ship will move to Sartorikai, where it will take part in...
After the launch in February 2024 and the christening of the SS-711 "Hai Kun" (Narwhal, 80 metres, 2,550 - 3,000 tonnes), not much was heard or seen of the project for a nationally developed conventional submarine, which had begun with such vigour. Technical difficulties arose at the start of the harbour acceptance...
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