The frigate "Hessen" is back in its home port of Wilhelmshaven after its deployment in the Red Sea as part of EU Operation ASPIDES. It was actually the same as always when it arrived: Relatives on the exceptionally crowded pier, waving, loud shouts of "there he is", posters and whole families. And yet the moving atmosphere was interspersed with...
In a 15-minute interview with Flotilla Admiral Axel Schulz, the head of Operational Flotilla 2 explains the German Navy's major project for 2024. It took place in the YouTube format "Nachgefragt" on bundeswehr.de, the Bundeswehr's web portal, and was published on 22 March 2024 under the title "Military cooperation must also be cultivated locally"....
Wilhelmshaven - The first two new and modernised Rapid C-810 rescue and operations boats have been handed over to Flotilla 2. They will be deployed on the F123 and F124 class frigates. On the "Hamburg", F124 and sister ship of the "Hessen", which was commissioned on Thursday, 8 February 2024 in preparation for the...
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Over the next few years, many modern ships will be joining Flotilla 2. But personnel is the strategic challenge for operational readiness. The commander of Operational Flotilla 2 has the task of providing ships that are capable of asserting themselves and holding their own in battle on the high seas in order to provide the naval inspector with maritime capabilities and options...
ATLAS manufactures four drones for the minehunting boats The German Navy is receiving "SeaCat" underwater reconnaissance drones for its Class 332 minehunting boats, financed from the special fund for the Bundeswehr. The President of the Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment, Information Technology and In-Service Support, Annette Lehnigk-Emden (centre), the Managing Director of ATLAS Elektronik GmbH (left) and...
From a press release of the PIZ at the Rostock Naval Command: On Thursday, 28 September 2023 at 10 a.m., the commander of the 2nd Frigate Squadron, Frigate Captain Olliver Pfennig (48), will hand over command of the frigate "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" from Frigate Captain Hendrik Wißler (44) to Frigate Captain Wolfgang Johannes Eckmüller (46). Frigate Captain Wißler took over in 2020...
When Flotilla Admiral Axel Schulz, Commander of Operational Flotilla 2, handed over command of the 4th Frigate Squadron on 19 January, it was not a ceremony of the kind familiar from the Heppenser Groden naval base. Captain Dirk Jacobus handed over his four BADEN-WÜRTTEMBERG-class ships to Captain Matthias Schmitt and ended the ceremony with the...
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On Wednesday, 4 January 2023 at 10 a.m., the frigate "Mecklenburg-Vorpommern" will leave Wilhelmshaven for a NATO mission. Right at the start of the new year, the ship will once again be part of the NATO Very High Readiness Joint Task Force (VJTF), as it was last year, and will take part in the so-called...
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