{"id":789933,"date":"2026-02-26T09:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/789933\/"},"modified":"2026-02-26T09:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T09:15:19","slug":"germany-takes-delivery-of-israeli-made-underwater-drone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/789933\/","title":{"rendered":"Germany Takes Delivery of Israeli-Made Underwater Drone"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The German navy on Wednesday said it had taken delivery of an Israeli-made Blue Whale underwater drone intended for reconnaissance and detecting \u201chybrid threats at sea.\u201d<\/p>\n

The autonomous underwater vehicle, developed by Israeli company IAI together with German submarine- and warship-maker TKMS, was received in the northern port of Eckernfoerde, the navy said in a statement.<\/p>\n

The army on its website said the Blue Whale was the navy\u2019s \u201clargest and most advanced unmanned underwater vehicle to date.\u201d<\/p>\n

The device was tested in the Baltic Sea<\/a>, a flashpoint for tensions between Russia and NATO since Moscow\u2019s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the army said.<\/p>\n

Military experts and European leaders say Russia has ramped up its \u201chybrid war\u201d in the strategic region \u2014 now bordered entirely by NATO members, with the exception of Russia \u2014 through airspace incursions <\/a>and suspected sabotage of undersea cables.<\/p>\n

TKMS said the Blue Whale was capable of \u201cconducting reconnaissance operations, detecting targets above and below the sea surface, collecting acoustic information, and locating sea mines on the seabed\u201d.<\/p>\n

Israel and Germany have upped their defense cooperation in recent months and in January signed a security pact to expand joint work on counterterrorism and cyber defense.<\/p>\n

In December, Germany approved a $3.1 billion expansion of a contract for the Arrow 3 anti-ballistic missile defense system<\/a>, which is Israeli-made and developed with US support.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The German navy on Wednesday said it had taken delivery of an Israeli-made Blue Whale underwater drone intended…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":789934,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5310],"tags":[229853,2595,2000,299,87416,1824,837,77493,91506],"class_list":["post-789933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-germany","tag-autonomous-underwater-vehicle","tag-drones","tag-eu","tag-europe","tag-german-navy","tag-germany","tag-israel","tag-israel-aerospace-industries","tag-tkms"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/116136176854323520","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=789933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789933\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/789934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}