BALTOPS 2025: Mine countermeasures units arrive in Kiel As part of their deployment in the Baltic Sea and their active participation in BALTOPS 2025, the Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group One (SNMCMG1) will call at Kiel from 20 to 24 June 2025. Since the start of the exercise in Warnemünde, the SNMCMG1 has been fully...
BALTOPS, KISS and connectivity On 19 June, the ISPK (Institute for Security Policy at Kiel University) hosted its 10th "Kiel International Seapower Symposium (KISS)", a one-day conference held during Kiel Week to discuss current issues relating to sea power, maritime security and its global challenges, and to discuss the...
On 20 June 2025, before the start of Kieler Woche, the minehunting boat "Datteln" returns to its home port of Kiel. For a total of six months, the boat was part of the Standing NATO Mine Countermeasures Group 1 (SNMCMG 1) and was involved in the Baltic MCM Ex 2025, Open Spirit and BALTOPS manoeuvres. Under...
Israel's submarine weapon is being built in Kiel On 12 June 2025, the boat was moved from its shielded outfitting area at TKMS in Kiel to a berth right next to the new submarine construction hall to be refuelled with hydrogen. Recognisable by the red flag prominently displayed in the tower of the INS Drakon...
Russian naval activity in the run-up to BALTOPS 2025 in the Skagerrak and western Baltic On 20 May 2025, the Russian frigate "Admiral Kasatonov" (project 22350) left its home port of Severomorsk. Together with the Udaloy class destroyer "Vitse Admiral Kulakov" (Project 1155), she was sighted in the Skagerrak on 26 May. While...
There was a premiere on 12 June 2025. The German Navy's new ocean-going tug "Rügen" deployed to the Aegean and is now the second civilian-crewed ship to take part in the Aegean mission. Under the command of Captain Lutz Lücken, the ocean-going tug is making its way to its first deployment in the Aegean...
The time has finally come. On 15 June 2025, Bundestag President Julia Klöckner will open the central ceremony for the first Veterans' Day at the Reichstag building in Berlin. In the late afternoon, Bryan Adams will give a tour of his photo exhibition in the Reichstag building before Defence Minister Boris Pistorius presents veterans' badges in the early evening. Diversity, humanity...
The world's first import corridor for liquid hydrogen through the Sultanate of Oman, the Netherlands and Germany has been agreed in a Joint Development Agreement (JDA). This corridor will connect the port of Duqm in Oman with Amsterdam in the Netherlands and important logistics centres in Germany, including Hamburger Hafen und Logistik AG...
With the Strategic Defence Review 2025 (SDR), the UK is formulating a new security policy direction. The Labour government is focusing on conventional deterrence, nuclear modernisation and technological leadership in NATO. However, the plan is ambitious - and faces structural legacy issues and budgetary conflicts of interest. A turning point for British defence With the SDR, the UK has...
Not at home in the north The NRV "Alliance" is a ship that you rarely see and hardly anyone knows. Even experienced naval personnel have never or rarely seen this ship. And now it's in the Baltic Sea! The research and measurement vessel of the Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE)...
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