The German Navy decided to replace the old 8-inch floppy disks used by the F-123 Brandenburg anti-submarine frigates with an emulator system.
The F-123 Brandenburg anti-submarine frigates used by the German Navy have a frigate data storage and acquisition system necessary to control the ship's basic functions, such as propulsion and power generation.
The German F-123 Brandenburg-class frigates entered service in the mid-1990s, so it's understandable that floppy disks were considered a handy removable storage medium back then. And any change in weapon systems is not an easy task as it requires painstaking testing and experience of use.
According to Golem.de, the solution to replace the obsolete old 8-inch (20 cm) floppy disks, after several ideas fell on the table, crystallized as ideal in a storage emulation system. The Swedish company Saab is the general contractor for the modernization of the F-123.
The problem of legacy technology in key system locations is not new. With technology leaps and bounds every decade, the techies of the 90s look like dinosaurs in a modern city today.
San Francisco's floppy disk-based train control system has similar problems. And the German railway.
As well as the US Strategic Automated Command and Control System (or SACCS), which until 2019 it was also 8 inch floppy based, until they converted it to SSD storage.
