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Germany’s most fashionable new fleet service boats are to be built-in into the navy from 2029. The three ships will then change the older technology. Above all, the tough safety state of affairs concerning the infrastructure within the Baltic Sea exhibits that the boats are urgently wanted.

The building of three new spy ships for the German Navy started on Thursday on the Lürssen shipyard in Bremen-Lemwerder with the beginning of metal burning. The so-called Class 424 fleet service boats, every 130 meters lengthy, are scheduled to be put into service in 2029. They will then change the three 83.5 meter lengthy fleet service boats of the “Oste” class, which have been crusing for the German Navy since 1988.

Annette Lehnigk-Emden, President of the Federal Office for Equipment, Information Technology and Use of the Bundeswehr (BAAINBw), and Flotilla Admiral Andreas Czerwinski took half within the ceremony. The three new boats price round three billion euros. Lürssen acquired the development contract from BAAINBw in 2023.

The German fleet service boats are technologically superior espionage, interception and monitoring platforms for worldwide use. The boats are operated by the German Navy – on behalf of the Bundeswehr’s Cyber ​​and Information Space (CIR) organizational space. In addition to the common Navy crew, specialists for telecommunications and digital reconnaissance journey on the boats.

“After a successful design and construction phase, we are entering the construction phase today as planned,” stated Tim Wagner, Managing Director of Naval Vessels Lürssen, the naval shipbuilding firm of the Lürssen Group, in the course of the begin of the firing on the Lürssen web site in Lemwerder. “This technologically extremely complex new building project is therefore well on its way.”

Frigates, corvettes, submarines and tankers are being constructed for the German Navy

NVL has the fleet service boats inbuilt Lemwerder by its sister firm Lürssen Yachts. Superyachts are primarily manufactured there. “With the Fr. Lürssen shipyard, we also have a highly competent manufacturing partner on board,” says Wagner. “In this way, we are making full use of the skills and resources within the Lürssen group of companies, which also includes NVL with its new locations in Hamburg and Wolgast. In addition, we are cooperating with other northern German shipyard partners and leading German system technology companies on this demanding project.”

Frigates, corvettes, submarines and tankers are at present being constructed for the German Navy. However, the development of the fleet service boats additionally dates again to the time earlier than the particular fund for the armament of the Bundeswehr value 100 billion euros, which the federal authorities arrange after the beginning of the Ukraine War on the finish of February 2022. NVL had already been commissioned by BAAINBw to design the boats in 2021. The German Navy has to date not benefited from the so-called “turning point” with orders for brand new capital ships.

However, the present safety state of affairs, particularly within the Baltic Sea, exhibits that the German Navy urgently wants new ships as a part of its NATO obligations. This week, a Chinese service provider ship was as soon as once more suspected of getting intentionally broken an information line operating by means of the Baltic Sea with a lowered anchor. The Danish Navy stopped the freighter “Yi Peng 3” north of the Öresund close to the Swedish city of Ängelholm. Two knowledge cables – between Finland and Germany and between Sweden and Lithuania – have been severely broken.

Olaf Preuß is a enterprise reporter for WELT and WELT AM SONNTAG for Hamburg and northern Germany. Naval armaments are considered one of his predominant matters.

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