Category: Armed Forces

Finally: New board and combat suit

Finally: New board and combat suit

Gepostet von | 30 Mar 2025 | , , | 0

New shipboard suit with materials from Gore-Tex The Bundeswehr's clothing system will be supplemented this year by a new suit programme for the navy: the shipboard and combat suit with PYRAD technology for flame protection from Gore-Tex. W.L. Gore & Assoc. supplies the textiles to clothing manufacturers and brand partners such as DNS Alpha, Goldeck-Carinthia, Schöffel and Wattana, who manufacture functional clothing from Gore materials. After three years of preparation, the clothing system has now gone into series production. The technical functional materials from Gore are used in several layers, from combat shirts to cold protection jackets. The modular system consisting of highly functional, weatherproof and flame-retardant clothing is intended to...

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Denmark procures Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) from Kongsberg

Denmark procures Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) from Kongsberg

Gepostet von | 26 Mar 2025 | , , , | 0

Denmark has ordered Naval Strike Missiles and thus becomes the 14th user of NSM. The Procurement and Logistics Organisation of the Danish Ministry of Defence (DALO) has agreed a government-to-government contract with the Norwegian Defence Materiel Agency (FMA) for the delivery of Naval Strike Missiles (NSM) worth 2.1 billion Norwegian kroner (equivalent to 180 million euros). The supplier is the Norwegian company Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace. Denmark intends to equip the Iver Huitfeldt-class frigates with the missile. The NSM was developed by Kongsberg together with MBDA. The 407 kg missile can reach a high subsonic speed with its rocket propulsion system and can hit targets at distances of more...

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Rheinmetall ship simulators for naval training

Rheinmetall ship simulators for naval training

Gepostet von | 25 Mar 2025 | , , , | 0

Rheinmetall supplies new ship simulators for naval training The defence and technology group Rheinmetall handed over the first of seven simulation systems for the Naval Operations School (MOS) in Bremerhaven in 2024. The so-called Training Equipment for Training Navigation (AATN) is intended to enable decentralised, on-site training. In addition to Bremerhaven, further facilities are being built in Flensburg (MSM), Wilhelmshaven, Kiel, Eckernförde and Warnemünde. The ceremonial handover of the third ship simulator in Warnemünde took place in January 2025. The AATN facility enables interdisciplinary nautical training for all ranks and careers. This includes bridge management, communication and basic training. The event on the grounds of the Hohe Düne base was well attended and took place in a relaxed atmosphere.

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Novelty in Stralsund: three tenders at once

Novelty in Stralsund: three tenders at once

Gepostet von | 10 Mar 2025 | , , , , | 1

Three tenders for International Women's Day Good ideas usually come from networking. One of these meetings is the Navy's annual historical-tactical conference, which is a great place to socialise. You meet this person and that, talk about this, that and, above all, the other. In conversation with former members of the fast boat squadron, word got around that three supply ships - including a fast boat tender - were planning to call at Stralsund's city harbour at the beginning of March, to coincide with International Women's Day. What followed was pragmatism: we have an idea, we see who wants to take part and organise an event that presents the navy in a rather atypical port. To the...

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After the Munich Security Conference: Associations call for a consistent industrial policy on defence equipment

After the Munich Security Conference: Associations call for a consistent industrial policy on defence equipment

Gepostet von | 26 Feb 2025 | , , , | 0

On 20 February 2025, the Federal Association of the German Security and Defence Industry (BDSV) and the Federal Association of the German Aerospace Industry (BDLI) called for consistent investment in the production of goods for our security and defence industry. The Munich Security Conference impressively demonstrated that Europe must take more responsibility for its own security in the transatlantic burden-sharing process. This requires higher defence budgets as well as the political will for self-assertion and sovereignty. Above all, an industrial policy agenda in the area of defence policy must be launched that focuses on orders for domestic companies: Buy European. According to the presidents of the leading industry associations,...

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