Second Kiel Munitions Clearance Week has begun Minister for Marine Protection Tobias Goldschmidt: "Schleswig-Holstein has been driving forward the clearance of old munitions for a long time. Science, environmental organisations and industry are working closely and well together. It is no coincidence that Kiel Munition Clearance Week was born here." KIEL: This morning, Environment Minister Tobias Goldschmidt and initiator...
Copenhagen - at whose gates and in whose bays Russian ships of the dubious Shadow Fleet and the civil-military Syria/Mediterranean Express parade - reaches into the state coffers and releases funds for an equipment programme for the Royal Navy. Their equipment inevitably ages and increasingly proves to be no longer up to scratch.
China's new Type 054B Luohe frigate - more modern, heavier and capable of air defence China's new Type 054B Luohe frigate was ceremoniously commissioned in Quingdao at Yuchi Bay Naval Base at the end of January 2025. At around 5,000 tonnes, it is larger and more powerful than the previous 30 units of the standard frigate type...
The museum ship "Mölders" has been the largest exhibit in the German Naval Museum (DMM) since 2005. Since then, a so-called Pön-Ex has been carried out regularly in spring and autumn. Important maintenance campaigns in which former destroyer drivers support the DMM and carry out repairs and mending work. In the first week of May, for example, almost...
With the return to national and alliance defence, it is not only the main area of operation that is changing for the German Navy. It is also necessary to adapt operational officer training. NATO's strategic concept adopted at the Lisbon Summit in 2010 stated that "peace prevails in the Euro-Atlantic area". Relations with Russia were...
More and more unmanned surface vehicles are being developed for naval use. A British company promises particular flexibility with its new model. The British Kraken Technology Group presented the K3 Scout unmanned surface vehicle (USV) during Special Operations Forces Week in Florida at the beginning of May. The ultra-modern vehicle is characterised...
From revolver cannon to fragmentation cloud - a quantum leap in close-range defence Change of strategy in 30mm calibre The German Navy is initiating a significant change with the tender launched in June 2025 for the "cross-sectional successor solution light naval gun" (qNFMLG). The plan is to procure up to 175 new 30mm weapon systems including accessories and training services -...
Russian naval activity in the run-up to BALTOPS 2025 in the Skagerrak and western Baltic On 20 May 2025, the Russian frigate "Admiral Kasatonov" (project 22350) left its home port of Severomorsk. Together with the Udaloy class destroyer "Vitse Admiral Kulakov" (Project 1155), she was sighted in the Skagerrak on 26 May. While...
There was a premiere on 12 June 2025. The German Navy's new ocean-going tug "Rügen" deployed to the Aegean and is now the second civilian-crewed ship to take part in the Aegean mission. Under the command of Captain Lutz Lücken, the ocean-going tug is making its way to its first deployment in the Aegean...
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