{"id":54938,"date":"2026-05-15T16:51:46","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:51:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/?p=54938"},"modified":"2026-05-15T16:51:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T14:51:32","slug":"ships-return-from-northern-norway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/schiffe-kehren-aus-nordnorwegen-zurueck\/","title":{"rendered":"Mj\u00f8lner 2026: Ships return from northern Norway"},"content":{"rendered":"

Credible deterrence: Today, the frigates \u201eSachsen-Anhalt\u201c and \u201eHamburg\u201c and the task force provider \u201eBonn\u201c returned to their home port of Wilhelmshaven from the Mj\u00f8lner 2026 manoeuvre.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Around 2,500 soldiers from Norway, Belgium, Denmark, the Netherlands and Germany took part in the exercise. A total of eight ships and forces from the Norwegian land forces took part in the exercise. On the German side, the corvettes \u201eBraunschweig\u201c and \u201eErfurt\u201c from Warnem\u00fcnde took part alongside the ships mentioned above. The Norwegian frigate \u201eFridtjof Nansen\u201c and the Danish frigates \u201eIver Huitfeldt\u201c and \u201eAbsalon\u201c were also part of the group.<\/p>\n

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Frigate Sachsen-Anhalt fires with the 127 mm naval gun from Leonardo-Finmeccanica (formerly OTO Melara) Photo: Bw\/Manthei<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Aircraft, missiles and drones from the air as well as speedboats and submarines attacked the participating units in various exercise scenarios. The crews had to react within a very short space of time and defend themselves against the realistic threats. \u201eThis exercise is an indispensable part of our operational readiness. It shows that we are capable of acting together and sends a strong signal of unity,\u201c summarised the leader of the association, Captain Jan Hackstein. The participating nations wanted to use the exercise to prove that it is possible to work together effectively on the basis of common procedures and fast information channels. In two years' time, Mj\u00f8lner 2028 will take place under Norwegian leadership. It was the first time that Germany led the exercise as a whole and led the preparations.\u00a0The name \"Mj\u00f8lner\" comes from Viking mythology. The Thor's hammer, Mj\u00f6lnir (Old Norse for \"Crusher\", \"Shatterer\" or also \"Lightning\"<\/b>), is the central symbol of the Norse god Thor, the protector of Midgard (the human world) and Asgard (the world of the gods). Mj\u00f6lner\u00a0<\/span>always hits the target - what a name!<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Text: PIZ Marine\/edited
\nPhotos: Bw\/Julia Kelm\/SF Mantei<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mj\u00f8lner 2026: The German Navy returns from the multinational manoeuvre Mj\u00f8lner 2026 in northern Norway. The focus was on deterrence, interoperability and combat under realistic conditions.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":54968,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_oasis_is_in_workflow":0,"_oasis_original":0,"_oasis_task_priority":"3high","footnotes":""},"categories":[486,42,50,51],"tags":[6594,1086,317,7067,78,12704,12697,340,12844,811],"class_list":["post-54938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-news","category-sicherheitspolitik-news","category-streitkraefte-news","tag-abschreckung","tag-einsatzbereitschaft","tag-fregatten","tag-interoperabilitaet","tag-marine","tag-mjolner-2026","tag-multinationales-manoever","tag-nato","tag-verbandsfuehrer","tag-wilhelmshaven"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54938","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=54938"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54938\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54969,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54938\/revisions\/54969"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/marineforum.online\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}