Captain Eckhard Bödecker hands over the school to Captain Jens Grimm As of today, Friday 20 August 2021, the Naval Operations School (MOS) Bremerhaven is under new leadership. Rear Admiral Christoph Müller-Meinhard (57), Commander Support and Head of the Operational Support Department at the Naval Command, has taken over command from Captain Eckhard Bödeker (61)...
On 18 August, Boeing conducted another successful test with its MQ-25 T1 drone. The unmanned aircraft is to be used as a refuelling aircraft on the US Navy's aircraft carriers and is currently still under development. Following the first refuelling of an F/A-18 at the beginning of June, the other aircraft has now also taken over the...
The Russian Navy has begun sea trials of the latest Project 636.3 submarine. Over the next few days, the boat's entire technical equipment, including the sonar and navigation systems, will undergo a thorough inspection. The diesel-electric powered boat will also complete deep-sea dives. The manoeuvrability of the boat will also be...
As the current events of rampant forest fires, heat waves and heavy rainfall show, climate change is the greatest threat to humanity. MTU, the Power Systems division of Rolls-Royce, has set itself the goal of being climate-neutral by 2050 and is committed to the Paris Climate Agreement. To this end, the Sustainable Power Solutions business unit has been...
Four officers with the rank of flotilla admiral are changing posts this month. Christian Bock, Commander of Operational Flotilla 1 and Director of the NATO Centre of Excellence for Operations in Confined and Shallow Waters in Kiel, is leaving his post to take up the post of Director of Training at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College in...
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard (PNSY) in Kittery, Maine, is receiving two new dry docks as part of its modernisation. The existing dock, which dates back to the Second World War, is no longer sufficient for the tasks involved in repairing the Virginia class. Designed for the conventional submarines of the size of the time, the nuclear-powered and significantly larger Virginia-class submarines can...
The first corvette of the Milgem project destined for Pakistan was launched at Istanbul Naval Shipyards on 15 August. In the presence of the Presidents of Pakistan, Arif Alvi, and Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, First Lady Samina Alvi handed over the future PNS Babur to its new element after a prayer. Afterwards, the...
Vice Admiral Michael Noonan, Inspector of the Australian Navy, has proudly announced that the new Hobart-class destroyers are ready for deployment. The last ship in the series of three, the HMAS Sydney, returned to Australia last month from a lengthy test voyage. Off the American and Canadian west coast, the warship, which was built by ASC, passed...
The South Korean Navy commissioned the first Dosan Ahn Changho-class submarine today (Friday 13 August). The boat has been built by Daewoo Shipbuilding & Marine Engineering (DSME) in Geoje since 2016. With a length of 83.5 metres, the type ship of the class displaces around 3360 tonnes over and 3750 tonnes...
Anyone who has ever been on watch at a floating unit or a naval shore station will be familiar with them: large boards with lots of photos of all kinds of people hanging on them. If one of them comes across the Stelling, please leave everything behind to pay your respects to the watch commander.
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