AFCEA trade exhibition, often referred to as the “Green CeBIT”, began today at the World Congress Center in Bonn. Most of the participants agreed on one point: more needs to be done in the digitalisation of Bundeswehr. While the so called White IT is at a good level thanks to the BWI, the Green IT…
With the admission of Finland and Sweden to NATO, the Baltic Sea is surrounded by allies. At the same time, however, Russian aggression gives the defence of the Baltic Sea a new, vital importance for Germany. Added to this is NATO’s New Force Model, which envisages regional responsibilities for certain areas. All this requires a…
2022 was a historic year: on February 27, Federal Chancellor Scholz announced a “turning point” in German security and defense policy. This was three days after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. On June 3, German Bundestag approved a €100 billion special fund for the Bundeswehr. On June 29, NATO adopted its new strategic concept in…
Berlin Security Conference (BSC) is the annual congress on European security and defence in Europe. Held in Berlin it brings together decision makers from politic, military and industry in a closed and confident environment, where information is proceeded and binational talks are possible. Congress organisation has now published a short video for those, who missed…
Procurement in the Bundeswehr continues to falter, including ammunition. “We have given around 20 million rounds for firearms to Ukraine,” names Florian Hahn, Member of German Parliament, one example. This ammunition has still not been reordered and the soldiers are the ones who will suffer from this lack of decision-making, as they have to fulfil…
Last week, high-ranking representatives from BMVg, BAAINBw and German Navy tested the possibilities and capabilities of ship-based laser weapons at sea. The corresponding demonstrator is located on frigate Sachsen. On August 30, this frigate was the first German Navy ship to successfully deploy a laser weapon. The target at the time was a drone. Since…
Procurement reform is almost as old as Bundeswehr and to claim that its protracted nature has only become a problem in this millennium misses the point. Take the Starfighter affair, Jäger 90, transformation of the BWB into the BAAINBw. In addition, there were many rule changes, CPM (nov.) was introduced to speed up processes –…
The CV90 industrial cooperation program in Slovakia to buy 152 CV9035 MkIV continues to progress. Now Slovak company KOVAL SYSTEMS a.s has won a contract from BAE Systems Hägglunds, the producer of the CV90 family of vehicles, for the complete turret assembly of the CV90s in the Slovak program. KOVAL SYSTEMS will also produce mechanical…
The programme of the BSC has many fathers and mothers. The First Concept was developed by the BSC team and coordinated with our partner nation the Netherlands. Substantial support is also provided by the Advisory Board that we introduced in one of our last articles. All these activities result in a challenging programme with a…
Rohde & Schwarz launched the R&S ESMW ultra wideband monitoring receiver recently. That system covers the wide frequency range of 8 kHz to 40 GHz with real-time bandwidth of up to two Gigahertz. It has a target-oriented ITU-compliant RF performance, modular upgradeability and a rich feature set in order to measure current and future wideband…