Open Ship at the weekend! The tender "Donau" visited Wismar last weekend. On Friday, the supply ship moored in the Hanseatic city next to the cruise terminal. The grey ship was open to visitors on Saturday and Sunday from 1 pm to 4 pm. Everyone was welcome...
The USS Gravely (DDG 107), which just a few weeks ago successfully fended off numerous drone attacks by Houthi militias in the Red Sea, is now on guard duty at the southern border of the USA! Border security and migration defence in the Gulf of Mexico. You may ask how that works? But it works! President Donald Trump's declared...
With the "Rügen", German customs has put its most modern and largest operational vessel into service. The ship monitors maritime traffic in the Baltic Sea and on the border with Poland. Thanks to its LNG propulsion system, it significantly reduces emissions and is designed for long-term patrol operations. Customs vessel "Rügen": State-of-the-art technology for customs operations According to...
At the beginning of January 2025, the US Department of Defence (DoD) published its annual list of companies with links to the Chinese military. This list now also includes the shipping giant COSCO Shipping as well as two of its subsidiaries and other companies, including the oil company China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC). About connections between...
The Kiel Canal is still the busiest artificial waterway in the world in terms of the number of ship passages. In recent months, however, it has often been in the headlines for rather negative reasons. Time and again, damage to the lock gates or incidents involving ships have caused a stir. Technical defects regularly lead to ships passing through the...
Farewell ceremony for Crew 10/2024 at the naval officers' alma mater On 14 March, the entire staff of the Mürwik Naval Academy - 300 servicemen and women as well as civilian employees - took part in a graduation ceremony. The occasion was the completion of the officer training course of the Military Specialist Service for 70 members of crew 10/2024....
USS "Alexandria" visits South Korea - North Korea reacts with harsh criticism The USS "Alexandria" (SSN-757), a fast, nuclear-powered Los Angeles-class attack submarine, has docked in Busan (about 200 miles south-east of Seoul, opposite Japan), according to a spokesman for U.S. Naval Forces Korea. No further details were released. The 1991 in...
Australia's future "Global Combat Ship", the Hunter-class frigates, planned with nine units of the Type 26 under construction in the UK at BAE Systems, but built and equipped in Australia by local industry, was to be one of the most efficient combat ships in the world. The budget envisaged 2.5 billion euros per ship...
On Sunday, 16 March 2025 at 3 p.m., the frigate "Brandenburg" will leave its home port of Wilhelmshaven to take part in the mandated foreign mission UNIFIL (United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon) off the Lebanese coast. Under the command of frigate captain Robert Meyer-Brenkhof, the crew will spend around six months off the Lebanese coast...
The Annual Report 2024 of the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces has been published In the Annual Report 2024, the Parliamentary Commissioner for the Armed Forces, Dr Eva Högl, demands in view of the acute global threats and wars (Ukraine): "The Bundeswehr's personnel, material and infra-structural equipment must improve more quickly." Despite the investments that have been made, including the 100 billion...
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