Germany is rearming and is desperately looking for soldiers, especially in the navy. Reporter Lukas Wiehler has the exclusive privilege of sailing on board the "Gorch Fock" as editor of the first TV team in 15 years. He gets an insight into everyday training on the German Navy's sail training ship and experiences at first hand what it's like to...
They look like spaceships from a science fiction film: jets with stealth technology. Their design makes stealth aircraft almost invisible to enemy detection systems, giving them a decisive advantage. Modern warships such as the USS "Zumwalt" also camouflage themselves in this way - their unusual shape and a special paint job scatter enemy fire...
During the NATO exercise "Air Defender 23" in June 2023, member states and armed forces from a total of 25 nations tested their response capabilities in European airspace. In the alliance's largest air manoeuvre to date, the operational capability and interoperability of the various air forces were practised in various manoeuvres. Each operation with up to 10,000 exercise participants...
Since the Bundeswehr was founded in 1956, the weapons used by the troops have improved enormously. Today, soldiers have access to state-of-the-art firearms. From small arms and grenade launchers to bazookas and large guns, this documentary provides an overview of the arsenal of the German armed forces. The look into...
The Bundeswehr documentary accompanies three male and one female soldier who have to face the current challenges of the Bundeswehr; too few personnel, too little material and many years of not being equipped for this kind of war. It offers authentic insights, reporting from the perspective of those who carry out the demanding tasks of the Bundeswehr on a daily basis.
While deep-sea trenches are usually elongated trenches, a sea low is only a relatively small area of sea that lies partly in such a trench. Some of the deepest areas are Challenger Deep in the Mariana Trench (10,984 m; Pacific Ocean) Milwaukee Deep in the Puerto Rico Trench (8,376 m; Atlantic Ocean) Diamantina Fracture Zone (7099 m; Indian Ocean) Molloy Deep (5,669 m;...
Any person on board who has no seamanship whatsoever and is only good at one thing: standing in the way. Even the bamboos are more seaworthy, although this term is only used to describe really bad sailors to whom you really have to explain everything.
...This greeting is also called dipping. It consists of lowering and raising the national flag. Merchant ships are obliged to give the first salute to warships of all countries. The dipping salute is not rendered among warships because it consists of striking the sails (or striking the flag; handing the ship over to the enemy),...
The St Elmo's Fire (or St Elmo's Fire for short) is a rare light phenomenon caused by electrical discharges during thunderstorms. St Elmo's fire occurs on exposed, high objects, such as ship masts. It resembles small, tufted lightning bolts that flicker around the object with a typical buzzing sound. Saint Elmo's fires are caused by corona discharges in the atmosphere. St Elmo's fires glow...
No ship should set sail without a good ship's spirit: The Klabautermann is a goblin who protects the ship. His name is derived from the former name of the ship's carpenter, the Kalfatermann. Calfing is still the name given to the sealing of the ship's planks today. At night, the goblin walks around the ship...
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