Firing exercise with IRIS-T SLM on the F125 off Andøya Extensive missile firing phases are currently taking place at the Andøya test site in Norway. These include the firing of the frigate "Baden-Württemberg" with the IRIS-T SLM air defence system, which has already been completed. The F125 class frigate was specially retrofitted with a navalised version of the IRIS-T SLM system for this test....

70 years of the Bundeswehr: Bremen State Command and Bundeswehr-Sozialwerk e.V. invite you to a benefit concert in Bremerhaven Bremerhaven - On Tuesday, 28 October 2025, the Bremen State Command and the Bundeswehr-Sozialwerk e.V. invite you to a benefit concert in the Bürgermeister- Smidt-Gedächtniskirche in Bremerhaven. On this evening, we want to honour the 70th anniversary of the founding of the Bundeswehr together and...

German security and defence industry is not unprepared As Dr Hans Christoph Atzpodien, Managing Director of the BDSV, announced in a press release, the "latest announcements by the People's Republic of China (...) have not caught our industry unprepared. The same applies to the EU Commission and the German government, which are concerned with the security of supply for critical and...

Naval Vessels Lürssen (NVL) is planning to build small unmanned surface vessels (USV) packed with electronics so that critical infrastructure can be monitored in future....
On Wednesday, the main customs office in Kiel put the new "Fehmarn" into service...
According to the latest SMM Maritime Industry Report (MIR), shipping companies and shipyards worldwide are planning extensive investments in efficiency, AI and fleet modernisation. One year before the world's leading trade fair SMM in Hamburg, the industry is confident and eager to invest, with 48 % of shipping companies planning new ship orders by 2026 - a record figure....
Diehl Defence and Lockheed Martin expand global PAC-3 MSE supply chain...
Rohde & Schwarz supplies NAVICS for Australian Border Force patrol boats built in Australia...
Although the German security and defence industry sees state involvement in securing key technologies as a good thing in principle, CEO Dr Hans Christoph Atzpodien points to private sector performance....
The aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78) was in Oslo on 12 September 2025 for a planned port visit....
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