Category: News

Visiting the Queen

We have already reported on the unusual guest in Hamburg harbour. For shipspotters - British aircraft carrier visits Hamburg On Thursday we had the privileged opportunity to visit the large warship. For security reasons, it was not open to the public, and we from Mittler-Report were not able to get on board without further ado, but had to undergo the professional and very careful security checks carried out by the Hamburg Home Guard. The comrades from the state command obviously had their hands full making sure our friends had a good stay. Once on board, we were met by an officer and a chief, who were very professional and...

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Start of firing of the first fleet service boat

Naval Vessels Lürssen (NVL) starts the production phase for the fleet service boats The fleet service boats OKER, ALSTER and OSTE, which have been in service for more than 30 years, will be replaced by the new units and will be available to the German Navy from 2029. Together with Annette Lehnigk-Emden, President of the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBw), Flotilla Admiral Andreas Czerwinski, Head of the BAAINBw's Maritime Department, and Lürssen Managing Director Justus Reinke, Tim Wagner, CEO of NVL, today pressed the start button to start up the plasma cutting system for the symbolic first steel cut. The order was placed with NVL in 2021. Construction of the technologically highly complex new type will...

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IPD Association commemorates 1997 aircraft collision

The IPD24 Association of the German Navy commemorated the 1997 aircraft collision off Namibia. When a BMVg aircraft collided with a US Air Force aircraft, 33 people lost their lives, including twelve comrades from the German Navy. With a short stopover and a commemoration of the dead at sea on the Indo-Pacific convoy's return journey from Cape Town to the Mediterranean, the Navy commemorated the shocking incident when two aircraft collided in the vastness of uncontrolled airspace off the African continent. Background The collision occurred on 13 September 1997 over the Atlantic Ocean about 120 kilometres off the coast of the southwest African state of Namibia at 35,000...

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South Korea - Another order for the US Navy

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Specialised flight training of the German Navy secured

The idea of not using the comparatively expensive flying hours of the operational aircraft for basic flight training, but instead using an almost commercially available machine efficiently and in a concentrated manner with a civilian operator, originated at the Naval Air Command and has been practised in this way for years. But what is innovative and cost-cutting had to be fought for with a great deal of effort and proof. In the meantime, this good idea has become a standard, as the following press release from the BAAINBw shows: The Bundeswehr Procurement Office recently concluded a framework agreement with the company HeliOperations for specialised flight training for the German Navy. Partly financed from the special assets of the Bundeswehr, this means that the...

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