A complete success: Review of Armed Forces Day
Bright sunshine, a maritime atmosphere and a varied programme made the Armed Forces Day on 28 June 2025 on Stralsund's harbour island a special experience
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China's rise as a maritime world power
Largely unnoticed by the European media, the Chinese navy has experienced breathtaking growth in recent years, which is turning the balance of power in the Indo-Pacific region upside down and could seriously jeopardise American supremacy on the world's oceans. In purely numerical terms, the Chinese navy (People's Liberation Army - Navy, or "PLAN" for short) was already a sizeable fleet of countless (missile) speedboats, small landing craft and diesel-electric submarines for coastal operations during the Cold War. In recent years, however, the composition of the PLAN has changed noticeably and the Brown Water Navy has seen a massive influx of large units....
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Successful Kiel Week
Commander of Operational Flotilla 1 takes positive stock The commander of Operational Flotilla 1, Flotilla Admiral Christian Walter Meyer, invited numerous guests from politics, business, science, associations and clubs as well as representatives of the navy to the tender "Donau" to experience the windjammer parade together at the end of Kiel Week 2025. The traditional "Sail Out" marked the ceremonial highlight of a successful event and offered those present an impressive insight into Germany's maritime tradition. In his welcoming speech, Flotilla Admiral Meyer emphasised that Kiel Week was once again an outstanding event. Despite a disruptive action by activists, during which the frigate "Bayern" was smeared with paint,...
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Link-22 for F124 - "Course Marine 2025"
A BAAINBw tender, which expired on 23 June, provides for all three Sachsen-class frigates to be equipped with external gateways by 2026. The aim is to integrate the NATO data link Link 22 and the Joint Range Extension Applications Protocol C, which stands for long-range satellite-based communication, as an interim solution. This measure is part of a more comprehensive modernisation concept for the navy until the F127 enters service - and is exemplary of the "Marine 2025 course" approach. According to the tender, a Ship-Shore-Ship Buffer on Ship (SSSB) is to be installed on each of the three F124 class frigates by August 2026 so that the units can...
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LCS of the US Navy as "migrant hunters" - find lots of coke
The US Navy finally seems to have found an operational niche for the unloved LCS (Littoral Combat Ships) of the Freedom and Independence class: The hunt for drug smugglers in the Caribbean and the Eastern Pacific. Although expensive and difficult to maintain, the LCSs have the advantage of high manoeuvrability and high speeds of 40 to 50 knots thanks to their water jet propulsion. Banished to the Caribbean by presidential order - not to mention the unnamed Gulf of Mexico - and deployed there to support the Coast Guard in securing the national borders against migration, the "Minneapolis-Saint Paul" has been used as a...
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