Parliamentary pressure increases - Budget Committee creates room for manoeuvre: Bundestag prepares a possible F126 alternative solution with 7.8 billion. MEKO A-200 as a bridge to the delayed Lower Saxony class? The Budget Committee of the German Bundestag has made a far-reaching decision in its review meeting on the 2026 federal budget: The Federal Ministry of Defence can expect around 7.8...
How do you accumulate a small fortune? By starting with a big one. This old realisation means that you should be careful with a financial cornucopia. And the 2026 defence budget is such a cornucopia. To put it in context: the decision to suspend the constitutionally enshrined debt brake for defence and infrastructure...
The good news: the contractually anchored option for two more ships can be triggered following the decision of the German Bundestag's Budget Committee on 12 June. On 19 June 2024 - exactly four years after the signing of the construction contract for the first batch - the contract was signed in Koblenz at the Federal Office for Equipment,...
Minister Pistorius present at the keel-laying ceremony for the first Class 126 frigate "Niedersachsen" It is a "milestone in the largest procurement project in the history of the German Navy". The keel laying ceremony for the first Class 126 frigate took place today at the Peene shipyard in Wolgast in the presence of Federal Minister Boris Pistorius....
In mid-April, the Bloomberg news agency reported on plans to trigger the option for two more new German F126 frigates, although it was referring to insider information. However, as it has not yet been possible to find anything to the contrary from the German side either, here is the Bloomberg news item published on SWZ Maritime (Netherlands) in...
Damen Naval, the main contractor for the four F126 frigates, has commissioned Damen Marine Components (DMC) to develop and produce the required rudder pairs for the combat vessels. They are intended to improve the hydrodynamic properties of the ships and withstand extreme impacts. According to Damen, the DMC full spade rudders of the type...
DAMEN Naval and Rolls-Royce's Power Systems division have signed a contract for the supply of 16 mtu diesel gensets for the German Navy's four new F126 frigates. This is DAMEN's first order for mtu diesel gensets for military applications. According to Hein van Ameijden, Managing Director of DAMEN Naval, the...
Damen Naval and ABB (a Swedish-Swiss technology company) have signed a contract for the supply of transformers, generators, thruster motors and other onboard systems for the F126 frigates. This also includes cybersecurity solutions for the four frigates with an option for two more. This is a significant change in the way in which...
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