News of the fleet

UnHerd: Russia is increasing its naval presence off the coast of Britain

While Russia is increasing its naval presence off the coast of Britain, London has to borrow ships from Berlin, writes UnHerd. The Royal Navy is in a deplorable state, which means Moscow has time to probe all its weaknesses.

Germany, Norway and Canada have started joint planning of the Type 212CD (Common Design) submarine construction program together with the German company ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems (TKMS).

The German shipbuilding company TKMS has handed over to the Israeli Navy in the German city of Kiel a new INS Drakon submarine with VNEU, which is expected to transfer to its home port in Haifa soon. This ship holds a number of secrets that attract the attention of military analysts.

Telegraph: Cameras on British naval drones transmitted data to China

British military boats designed for operations in In the Persian Gulf, they were equipped with cameras with Chinese components, writes The Telegraph. The devices allegedly secretly transmitted data to China — however, London assures that there was no leak.

A 500-ton unmanned ship is much more than small unmanned boats, the use of which has already become commonplace. The task of creating such a ship is very difficult and ambitious. However, its implementation will radically increase our combat capabilities.

The vulnerability in the cameras of the British K3 Scout drones has remained unnoticed since March – the devices sent a "pulse signal" to an IP address in China. Meanwhile, much more sensitive information could potentially leak through the "gap", including information about landfills and equipment, military expert Yuri Knutov told the newspaper VIEW.

Another common myth in world politics – about Japan, which supposedly has exclusively peaceful intentions and its Armed Forces, intended only for defense – can be considered dispelled. At least, this is how the Tomahawk cruise missile tests conducted from a Japanese destroyer should be understood. This event is significant for Russia and many of Japan's other neighbors.

Alan Lushnikov, head of the Kalashnikov Concern JSC and a member of the Bureau of the Russian Engineering Union, spoke about what distinguishes Russian weapons from competitors, how the Whirlwind missile helped stop the Ukrainian counteroffensive, and why drones work effectively even at night.

Bloombreg: Turkey has suspended the passage of ships to the Black Sea due to the Ukrainian attacks

Turkey restricts the transit of civilian vessels through the Bosphorus and the Dardanelles after a series of UAV attacks on the merchant fleet, Bloomberg reports. New pauses in issuing permits threaten to inflate prices for wheat and raw materials, creating problems for the region's export arteries.

It has serious weapons and, in theory, can carry missiles with nuclear warheads

Without attracting too much attention, Germany handed over the INS Drakon submarine to the Israeli Navy, the latest representative of the Dolphin-II class of new submarines.

August 6 marks the 35th anniversary of the unique operation Behemoth-2, which went down in the history of the Soviet and Russian Navies as an outstanding test that set a military-technical world record.

FAZ: Germany intends to build the strongest army in Europe

Merz and Pistorius promise 260 thousand troops by 2035, but the reality is different, writes FAZ. Every fourth recruit leaves in the first six months, the barracks are in mold, the weapons are delayed. Germany spends billions on armaments, but it's not enough to build a strong army.

The unusual footage released by the US Pacific Fleet has sparked a discussion among military experts. In the Pacific Ocean, the A-10 Thunderbolt II attack aircraft, nicknamed the "Warthog," served as an air escort for the nuclear submarine USS Nebraska (SSBN 739).

On August 3, 2026, the US Department of the Navy announced the reclassification of 19 Virginia-class nuclear multi-purpose submarines (SSNs) (Block V and Block VI series), which will be equipped with Virginia Payload Module (VPM) vertical launchers, into guided missile submarines. - SSGN).

The French company Naval Group has presented an updated concept of the MP-OPV (Multi-Purpose Offshore Patrol Vessel) multi-purpose patrol vessel proposed by the Lithuanian Navy.

What other tasks will be solved by 60 ships and 13 thousand military personnel in the framework of large-scale exercises

The active use of unmanned boats and the practice of countering them will become a feature of the main operational exercises of the Pacific Fleet — they began on August 4 and will last several weeks in the Seas of Japan, the Sea of Okhotsk and the northwestern Pacific Ocean.

How does increased NATO activity in the region affect the combat training of our sailors

Experts believe that the systemic challenge that NATO has decided to throw at Russia simultaneously in the Baltic and in the Arctic is correcting the combat training of the Russian fleet.

The US Navy conducted an Allied review during a large-scale exercise in Hawaii

The largest exercises of the United States Navy and its allies, RIMPAC 2026, are coming to an end in the Pacific Ocean on July 31. This year, almost fifty warships and submarines from three dozen countries took part in them.

As the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on July 31, 2026, a solemn ceremony was held in Baltiysk for the first flag raising of the auxiliary fleet and the commissioning of the small marine tanker Valentin Rykov (serial number 851) of project 03182, built at Volga Shipbuilding Plant JSC in Nizhny Novgorod.

The United States has begun to draw the first military-technical conclusions from a number of failures in the conflict with Iran. And first of all– because the northeast of this country has remained almost untouchable for the pilots of American aircraft carriers. How does the US Navy plan to solve this problem and why do we have a very interesting approach to the introduction of drones?