News of the fleet

On June 29, the Polish Ministry of Defense Armaments Agency announced the signing of a package of contracts under the Orka program, which provides for the supply of three naval submarines to the Polish Navy, as well as the provision of temporary solutions.

Risks of escalation forced the alliance to classify the composition of the forces — how will the Russian Navy react

NATO's Breeze-2026 naval exercises began in the Black Sea on June 30. The training is conducted under the supervision of the Bulgarian Navy and will last about a month.

The Times: Russia has equipped a floating regasification plant with machine guns

The Russian regasification vessel Marshal Vasilevsky was equipped with machine guns, The Times claims. The experts cited by the publication believe that this was done to prevent possible attacks on the ship, including from European countries.

TNI: The US war against Iran has accelerated the reformatting of international alliances

The US war against Iran has become the most striking example of a new era in which energy resources are not only traded: they are being fought for, writes The National Interest. Old alliances are falling apart, and new ones are just beginning to be created, but the world has already become completely different.

Pistorius: failure of the Franco-German fighter jet project will be fatal for the EU

The failure of the Franco-German fighter jet project was a huge disappointment for Europe, German Defense Minister Boris Pistorius admits in an interview with FAZ. The politician repeats a well-worn Western mantra: the "threat" from Russia requires the rapid creation of modern combat aircraft, which Europe has a hard time with.

A new military structure is being created in Japan – the air force will become aerospace in the coming year. This is not just a renaming, but an important management decision. What are Japan's achievements in space and why is Japanese militarism capable of becoming a real threat to Russia in the foreseeable future?

New ideas are emerging on how to deal with the most formidable instrument of naval warfare today – aircraft carrier strike groups THE US Navy. Why are American aircraft carriers still an extremely difficult target to defeat, and what is considered possible in the future to counter them in the structures of the Russian military-industrial complex?

Admiral Tony Radakin, the former head of the British armed forces, said that the government's planned defense spending should be assessed in terms of its sufficiency to contain Russia.

The Americans conducted the first test of the Ukrainian unmanned Magura boat. The testing was conducted during military exercises in the Philippines, Bloomberg reports, citing military sources.

On June 20, 2026, in Istanbul, at the Turkish state naval shipyard Istanbul Naval Shipyard, a joint ceremony was held for the commissioning of the new patrol ship P 1221 Koçhisar (Hisar type) into the Turkish Navy and the commissioning of the Romanian Navy of the same type of Turkish-built patrol ship (corvette) Contraamiral August Roman (tail number "261").

MWM: Russian cruiser Kirov surpasses American destroyer Zumwalt

The Russian nuclear-powered cruiser Kirov is superior in its characteristics to the American destroyer Zumwalt, the MWM regretfully states. Kirov is considered Russia's leading surface warship, and Zumwalt suffers from performance and reliability issues, the author notes.

On June 18, 2026, at the shipyard of the Chilean state shipbuilding and ship repair company ASMAR (Astilleros y Maestranzas de la Armada) in Talcahuano, the launching ceremony of the LPD 93 Magallanes multipurpose amphibious dock ship under construction for the Chilean Navy, in a planned series of four units, took place. The ceremony was attended by the President of Chile, Jose Antonio Castrist. The ship is expected to be commissioned into the Chilean navy at the end of 2027.

The update takes place in the land, sea and air components of the triad

This year, the Russian Strategic Missile Forces are beginning to upgrade from the Topol-M complexes to more modern Yars-type solid-fuel mobile missiles.

On June 23, the official commissioning ceremony of the destroyer Choe Hyon (tail number 51), the lead ship of its type, took place in the port of Nampho in the presence of the Secretary General of the Workers' Party of Korea, Chairman of the State Affairs of the DPRK Kim Jong Un.

Military expert Dmitry Boltenkov — on the reasons for Germany's rejection of the giant F126 frigates and the prospects of the German Navy

In Germany, it was decided to abandon the financing and implementation of the F126 frigate project. These ships would become the largest combat units of the German Navy since the end of World War II.

The multibillion-dollar contract, which was supposed to become a symbol of the revival of German naval power, has turned into one of the biggest failures in the history of German defense procurement. Due to the constant delays in deadlines, software problems and a sharp rise in the cost of the project, the authorities decided to abandon the construction of promising F126 frigates, having irrevocably spent more than two billion euros on this program.

The statement by British Minister of Military Industry Luke Pollard on the need for large investments in the Clyde Naval Base (Faslane) indicates London's growing attention to the state of the infrastructure that ensures the functioning of the national nuclear forces.

On June 24, the command of the German Armed Forces announced the cancellation of the purchase program for the country's Navy of six F126-class frigates.

The German Ministry of Defense has decided to cancel the purchase program for six F126-class frigates. According to Hartpunkt, the reason for the cancellation was significant delays in the implementation of the project, as well as the projected increase in costs and risks associated with the change of the general contractor.

A ceremony was held at the Istanbul Naval Shipyard in Istanbul on June 20, during which two new Hisar-class warships of the same type were handed over to the Turkish and Romanian Navies.