Congress in Washington expects the Pentagon to review the "Unified Combatant Command Plan" every two years. Four years ago, the US Department of Defence separated the country of Israel from the US European Command Area of Responsibility (USEUCOM, Stuttgart) and transferred the territory to the US Central Command (USCENTCOM, Florida), which is responsible for military operations in...
POTUS (President of the United States) actually wanted the F-47, the successor to the F-22 (Stealth Fighter, US Air Force), to be the "best and most lethal aircraft ever built" - aptly named for the 47th President of the United States. To this end, the Pentagon was to mobilise all available financial resources in 2026 to...
In mid-June, the President of the United States designated Admiral Daryl Caudle, commander of the U.S. Fleet Forces, as the next Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) and nominated him for selection by the Senate Armed Services Committee, the American defence committee in the Capitol. Caudle is expected to take over six months after the ouster of Admiral...
In view of the Chinese navy's unabated bullying behaviour towards the Philippine units in the South China Sea, Japan has agreed to make its six Abukuma frigates (109 metres, 2,500 tonnes) available to the island state after their imminent decommissioning. Although these ships have over thirty years of service under their keels,...
After almost seven years of legal wrangling, the Norwegian Ministry of Defence and the Spanish shipyard Navantia reached an out-of-court settlement in the case of the frigate "Helge Ingstad", which sank in 2018, at the beginning of June. The settlement stipulates that Navantia will receive discounts of almost 50 million euros on maintenance and modernisation work on the ship over the next six years.
As a strategic hub between Central and South America, between the Caribbean and the Pacific, as well as the most important drug trafficking routes from South to North, Colombia has a small but very agile navy. The country receives a great deal of material support from the USA (guard boats) and South Korea (2 corvettes), as well as operational support from the USA. Germany...
At the beginning of June, the Canadian frigate "Calgary" with its striking camouflage livery completed a general overhaul that lasted more than two years - including the planning lead time and the reactivation phase that is now beginning, it will have been more than three years in the shipyard. She was the second unit of the twelve Halifax-class patrol frigates (135 metres, 4,800 tonnes) to be built after...
Constantly under power, wind or sun, always wide awake, hear and see everything, under and above water, but never seasick! The Danish Ministry of Defence has put four Voyager naval drones from US manufacturer Saildrone into service in order to be able to detect and fend off potential espionage and sabotage attempts on critical infrastructure at an early stage. The autonomous vehicles are controlled by...
A national magazine described them as the "queens of the seas", the last two of the eight Maestrale-class frigates (123 metres, 3,000 tonnes) from the 1980s that the Argentinian Ministry of Defence is negotiating with Rome to purchase. Predominantly equipped with underwater weapons, the frigates built by Fincantieri were in service for a good 40 years.
After the navalised Z-20J variant of the Chinese transport and multi-role helicopter Harbin Z-20 was presented to the public at the Zuhai Airshow in November 2024, this flight type was already shown on board the amphibious assault carrier "Hainan" (Type 75, 237 metres, 31,000 tonnes) during on-board operations in the Chinese media in mid-2025. The with...
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