Royal Navy - Sail training ship for officer training If you live on an island, you don't have to learn to sail - you have grown up with wind and weather, with the sea and on small boats. A real sail training ship, as some continental navies value highly for training and representation purposes, needs...
The Victory, the first of six Multi-Role Combat Vessels (MRCV), was launched at Singapore Technology Engineering in the second half of October. The 150-metre-long vessel will operate as a drone carrier in future and will be able to deploy its remotely or autonomously controlled weapons on all three levels. The commissioning of the Victory...
The catastrophic situation in Sudan and the associated lack of any progress in harbour construction have probably led Russia to abandon its plans for an "East of Suez" presence. In any case, Moscow has declared that it is cancelling its plans to expand a Russian naval base in Port Sudan.
At the beginning of 2026, the Bundestag decided to take the first step towards reactivating compulsory military service. Once again, buzzwords were more important than arguments in the political debate. It was cannon fodder versus war fitness. It wasn't just the opponents of compulsory military service who were using manslaughter arguments, the other side didn't argue much more differentiated either. After the student demonstrations, all sweeping judgements were...
Nils Theinert explores the history of German Navy submarines - with a focus on the people who worked on them. In cramped, noisy and cold conditions, they perform outstandingly. Living and working in cramped conditions, without daylight or fresh air: this is what everyday life is like for submariners. Add to that the cold, mould and...
Another cancelled defence project: At the beginning of November, Norway finally cancelled the procurement contract from 2001 for fourteen NH90s, which had already been terminated in 2022 due to delivery deviations and maintenance problems, by mutual agreement and by resolving all disputes with the French-dominated NHIndustries (Airbus Helicopters, Leonardo, Fokker). NHI will take back the eight NH90s delivered to date, including spare parts,...
At the beginning of November, one piece of news did not make the headlines: The Huthi rebels in Yemen declared an end to their attacks on maritime interests (ships, harbours) with links to Israel in the Red Sea and the Gulf of Aden. Since the ceasefire between the USA and the Houthis brokered by Oman in May, the attacks have been limited to...
To mark the 80th anniversary of the founding of the Indonesian armed forces, the state-owned shipyard PT PAL very confidently presented the nationally developed prototype of an unmanned submarine (KSOT-008, 15 metres, 37 tonnes) to the public. Equipped with on-board AI and guided at a maximum distance of 400 kilometres by an Autonomous Submarine Command Centre (ASCC), KSOT can carry out three...
Naval Group: Type ship of the FDI frigate delivered to the Marine Nationale In October, the French state shipyard Naval Group delivered the "Admiral Ronarc'h", the type ship of the five FDI frigates (Frégate de Défense et d'Intervention), to the Marine Nationale in Brest. As a completely newly developed multi-mission frigate (122 metres, 4,500 tonnes), it is intended to master everything...
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