A wide range of tasks and great responsibility await the young officers of the watch on board a corvette. But with growing experience, the challenges can be mastered. "Aaaa the DO goes on". "Corporal Krüger, report me as the current helmsman on course 195°, both ahead 18, normal sailing programme, rudder hand." "WO understood." The corvette Magdeburg is...
Countless German cargo ships were abroad at the beginning of the Second World War, denied a way back home. In Indonesia, the crew of the Sophie Rickmers waited for better times. After the occupation of the Netherlands by the German Wehrmacht in 1940, numerous German merchant ships were taken off the Dutch...
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...
Other nations already have hypersonic missiles. Now they are also included in the specifications for future German air defence units. Hypersonic missiles have been on the radar of air defence forces at least since Russia deployed the Kinschal cruise missile in the Ukraine war. They are among the most advanced and threatening military technologies. Hypersonic missiles challenge all existing missile defence shields with...
Renk supports NATO countries and their most important allies with its cutting-edge technology. CEO Alexander Sagel sets four priorities for the future of the company. An interview by Burghard Lindhorst. Mr Sagel, you have been at the helm of the Renk Group since February. You have barely been in office when the security situation has deteriorated further. Was...
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...
Friesland Kabel has the maritime expertise for this What - the reader may ask - is so exciting about cables? A triviality, you might think, because we have several transmission products for signals and energy in our hands every day. You get what you need from the DIY store....
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.
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