Big day in Wolgast Steel construction began at the Peene shipyard site in Wolgast for the second Class 424 fleet service boat, which will be launched several months earlier than planned to replace the Bundeswehr's OSTE class in the near future. The approximately 130 metre long ships serve as reconnaissance platforms with state-of-the-art sensor technology and fulfil current military requirements....
September is the month of the major exercises Quadriga and Northern Coast From 18 August to 30 September 2025, the Bundeswehr and 13 partner nations will be conducting a large-scale exercise to protect the Baltic Sea region. Up to 8,400 servicewomen and men from various branches of the armed forces will be deployed. Quadriga 2025 serves...
Today, Thursday 4 September 2025, the commander of the 4th Frigate Squadron, Frigate Captain Volker Kübsch, handed over command of the frigate "Rheinland-Pfalz" to Frigate Captain Benedikt Eichhorn. "Taking command of the frigate 'Rheinland-Pfalz' is both an honour and an obligation for me. Precisely because we find ourselves in a time when...
The Kiel-based company TKMS has signed a memorandum of understanding in New Delhi with Hyderabad-based VEM Technologies Pvt. Ltd, an Indian defence company specialising in the design, development and manufacture of weapons and airborne systems. The cooperation had already been announced by Federal Chancellor Scholz in 2024 during his visit to...
The Romanian Navy has commissioned the former British minehunter HMS Pembroke (Sandown class) at an official ceremony in Rosyth, Scotland, under the name "Capitan Constantin Dumitrescu" (M 271). Together with their sister ship Ex HMS Blyth, both mine defence vessels were refurbished in cooperation with the industry (Babcock) before they were taken into service by...
Russian drone attack on Ukrainian naval unit For the first time in the chronology of the Ukrainian war, the Kiev Navy was attacked and heavily hit by a Russian surface drone (similar to the Ukrainian Magura V) on 28 August 2025. The incident occurred at night in the delta of the Danube estuary. An evaluation identifies this location around 30...
On Thursday, 28 August 2025, Federal Chancellor Friedrich Merz visited the German Navy for the first time. In a varied programme, the Chancellor was shown some of the Navy's range of capabilities. After a confidential round of talks at the naval command with the inspector of the navy, Vice Admiral Jan Christian Kaack, the Federal Chancellor...
The defence research vessel ALLIANCE (A 5345), which belongs to the NATO research centre Centre for Maritime Research and Experimentation (CMRE), was used to experimentally investigate methods for protecting underwater infrastructure in the Baltic Sea. To this end, scientists deployed state-of-the-art acoustic sensors off the Danish island of Bornholm and, for the first time since joining NATO, in Finnish and Swedish waters.
The fuel tanker "Rhön" returns to Wilhelmshaven On Sunday, 31 August 2025 at 10:00 a.m., the fuel tanker "Rhön" will enter its home port of Wilhelmshaven. As a floating refuelling station in the NATO Standing NATO Maritime Group 1 (SNMG 1), the "Rhön" has ensured the supply of fuel for the participating NATO partners. "The...
Since the beginning of the war in Ukraine at the latest, cases of suspected sabotage against critical infrastructure (KRITIS) have attracted worldwide attention. In the Baltic Sea in particular, pipelines have been destroyed and underwater cables severed on several occasions. Now, for the first time, a captain and two of his officers from the oil tanker "Eagle S" are on trial in Helsinki. The Finnish public prosecutor's office is accusing the...
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