The Spanish Navy takes delivery of a new submarine as a future Israeli Navy patrol boat is launched into the water for the first time. The US Navy christens an amphibious assault ship. Finally, a Dutch-German partnership begins construction of a new frigate for the German Navy. Lead boat of new...
The German Navy recently took delivery of two new survey and weapons test support vessels from German shipyard Fassmer. Named after two shoals off the town of Flensburg and the city of Kiel, Kalkgrund and Stollergrund were designed to perform diverse roles such as coastal survey, marine research,...
German frigate Rheinland-Pfalz (F225) in Hamburg in 2019. Photo via Wikipedia
SINGAPORE – The German Navy will deploy a frigate and a combat support ship to the Indo-Pacific in 2024, German Navy Chief Vice Adm. Jan Christian Kaack announced at the International Maritime Security Conference (IMSC) 2023 Thursday.
“We are looking forward to joint operations and exercises with our partners in the region,” Kaack said.
The mission of the two-ship task force will include freedom of navigation operations...
Deliveries include a patrol boat for a Texas sheriff’s department, a stealth frigate for Japan’s self-defence forces, and an expeditionary sea base for the US Navy. A ..
Kongsberg Maritime Sweden AB has booked a contract with Damen Naval to supply four shipsets of Kongsberg controllable pitch propeller systems along with associated hubs, blades, hubcaps and shaft lines, for the German Navy’s new F-126 frigates.
Germany’s Federal Office of Bundeswehr Equipment Information Technology and In-Service Support (BAAINBW) contracted Damen Naval to design and construct the vessels in 2020. The four ships, each with two propellers and shaft lines, will be constructed...
The German Navy frigate Sachsen Anhalt was recently used as a testbed for a new type of locally-developed, ship-mounted laser weapon. The high-energy weapon is being deve ..
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Defence firm Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) will take over the shipyard location of MV Werften in Wismar, Germany. TKMS intends to use MV Werften’s Wismar facil ..
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A consortium that includes German defence company and shipbuilder ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) has handed over the German Navy frigate Rheinland-Pfalz to the German ..
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Russian naval assets are very active offshore in support of Moscow’s Ukrainian campaign. NATO has responded with a large-scale deployment of its naval forces. Since the ..
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The future Koln, the German Navy’s newest corvette, was christened during a ceremony in its namesake city of Cologne on Thursday, April 21. The ship is the sixth ov ..
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