Several German shipping companies have apparently received threatening emails from the Houthi militia in Yemen in recent months, warning of further attacks. Risk potential According to the German Shipowners' Association (VDR), the threats were directed at shipping companies calling at Israeli ports and travelling in the waters near Yemen, among others...
German Navy ends Indo-Pacific Deployment 2024 After 208 days, the Indo-Pacific Deployment (IPD) of the German Navy ended on 1 December 2024 at the Spanish naval base in Rota. The unit covered a total of around 45,000 nautical miles (83,000 kilometres), the equivalent of two circumnavigations of the globe. The frigate "Baden-Württemberg" is now preparing for the imminent UNIFIL mission in...
The German Aerospace Centre (DLR in Cologne) and the German Federal Police (BPol) are working more closely together in the field of maritime security. The Chairwoman of the DLR Executive Board and the President of the Federal Police Headquarters (Potsdam) signed a cooperation agreement in Neustadt/Holstein on 21 November 2024. The agreement deals with the joint testing and further development of capabilities...
Vietnam has been adding more artificial islands since 2021. According to Radio Free Asia, the country has added more than 600 hectares of dry land around the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea in the last year alone. The largest activity took place on 'Barque Canada Reef', an atoll about 400 kilometres southwest of...
Operational Flotilla 2 receives new commander. On Friday, 29 November 2024 at 10 a.m., the Commander of Operational Forces and Head of Operations at Naval Command, Rear Admiral Stephan Haisch, once again made a change of command in his area. Flotilla Admiral Axel Schulz has handed over command of Operational Flotilla 2 to Captain Sven Beck...
Recently, a delegation led by the Commodore of MFG3 "Graf Zeppelin", Captain Oliver Ottmüller, visited Squadron Number 5 of the New Zealand Air Force in Ohakea. As part of the exchange on the introduction and in particular the operation of the new P-8A Poseidon aircraft, the naval aviators from Nordholz established contacts with the...
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...
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 Defence Equipment, Information Technology and...
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 developed with a lot of...
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