The NH90 Sea Tiger made its debut at the Paris Air Show. The premiere was exciting for aviation experts: the armament of the new multi-role frigate helicopter has now been shown in France. The NH 90 Sea Tiger will replace the era of the Westland Sea Lynx with a new concept. It is the latest further development for...
The NH90 Sea Tiger made its debut at the Paris Air Show. The premiere was exciting for aviation experts: the armament of the new multi-role frigate helicopter has now been shown in France. The NH 90 Sea Tiger will replace the era of the Westland Sea Lynx with a new concept. It is the latest further development for...
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...
The museum ship "Mölders" has been the largest exhibit in the German Naval Museum (DMM) since 2005. Since then, a so-called Pön-Ex has been carried out regularly in spring and autumn. Important maintenance campaigns in which former destroyer drivers support the DMM and carry out repairs and mending work. In the first week of May, for example, almost...
Seven years after the collision between the Norwegian frigate "Helge Ingstad" and the tanker "Sola TS", the Norwegian Ministry of Defence and the Spanish shipyard Navantia have reached an out-of-court settlement. According to an announcement on the Norwegian government website (https://www.regjeringen.no/) on 2 June 2025, the settlement includes discounts equivalent to up to 47.5...
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...
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)...
According to a US Department of Defense announcement dated 30 May 2025, Raytheon Missiles and Defense has been awarded an initial $536.75 million contract (N00024-25-C-5501) for integration and production support services for the AN/SPY-6(V) multifunction wide-area radar. The announcement states that if all options are exercised, the cumulative value of the contract will exceed $2.88 billion.
Eight decades after Allied soldiers crossed Germany's last bulwark - the Rhine - under fire to breach German defences, US soldiers gathered once again on the banks of the river to commemorate the historic crossings together with active duty, veterans and German soldiers. To the musical accompaniment of an army band...
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