When it comes to its Brandenburg class F123 frigates, the nation requires something that is less worthy of the letter C.
We are not talking about a digital upload or some kind of software patch when we say that the German Navy’s fleet of submarine frigates is in dire need of a significant upgrade. Since the 1990s, when they were first put into service, the nation’s fleets of submarine frigates have been using classic floppy disks of 8 inches in size to operate their systems.
According to Tom’s Hardware, the German Navy is currently attempting to find a solution to replace the antiquated disk system that is “essential to the operation of its Brandenburg class F123 frigates.”
Replacing the system that uses floppy disks will not be a simple challenge. As far as the ships are concerned, these disks are responsible for controlling everything from the ventilation systems to the power generation. To what extent does the German Navy continue to make use of Palm Pilots for the organization of its codewords and Tamagotchi for the training of its recruits in the preservation of maritime wildlife?
According to a news release, Saab has been in charge of the upkeep of Germany’s F123 frigate fleet since the year 2021. Due to the fact that the frigates are intended to hunt for submarines, they are also receiving modifications for their armaments and the control systems that are used for those weapons. Additionally, I am hoping that they would provide me with a free night panel dashboard, which is a nice and elegant dashboard.
Over the course of several decades, and even after the antiquated computer storage method has been phased out of widespread use, a significant number of government institutions and projects have continued to employ the floppy disk system. At the beginning of this month, the Digital Agency of Japan made the announcement that it has done away with the usage of floppy disks in its government systems. Do you think that this indicates that a central government agency somewhere in the world is still storing its most important data on those Commodore cassette tapes? Let us hope that access to nuclear weapons is not conditional on the possession of those CDs, as it was in the United States.