News of the fleet

According to the general director of the shipyard Mikhail Budnichenko, the loading of the enterprise is comparable to the loading of the Soviet period

The construction of submarines of the 4th generation in the interests of the Russian Navy is carried out in three shifts, the press service of JSC "PO "Sevmash" reported on Monday.

The operation of the power plant, steering device, auxiliary mechanisms, communication and navigation equipment, anchor device is being checked, the press service of the Baltic Fleet reported

The newest small rocket ship (MRC) "Storm" of the project 22800 - the carrier of cruise missiles "Caliber", built at the Leningrad Shipbuilding plant "Pella" for the Baltic Fleet, is undergoing factory sea trials at the Baltic sea ranges, the press service of the fleet reported on Monday.

The crew of the frigate Admiral Grigorovich is serving in the Mediterranean Sea

Traditionally, the Day of the commander of the ship is celebrated in Russia on October 8. The holiday was approved by the order of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy on September 18, 2007.

St. Petersburg designers and designers work closely with shipbuilders, one of the most important and promising areas of development is instrumentation

Shipbuilding enterprises of St. Petersburg plan to transfer 16 warships, four submarines and six military vessels to customers by 2025. Alexey Yakovlev, Deputy Chairman of the Committee on Industrial Policy, Innovation and Trade of St. Petersburg, told about this at a press conference in the St. Petersburg press center of TASS.

The Russian command has expanded the range of targets being hit in Ukraine

The Aerospace Forces, Navy and Missile Forces of Russia continue to carry out massive strikes on military and infrastructure facilities of Ukraine. On the morning of October 11, the Ladyzhinskaya Heat and Power Plant (CHP) suffered a fire defeat in the Vinnytsia region, electrical distribution equipment went out of order.

As reported by JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), on October 14, 2022, the new nuclear icebreaker Ural of project 22220 (LK-60YA), built at JSC Baltic Plant (part of USC), left St. Petersburg for the first stage of sea trials.

In light of the escalation of the conflict in Ukraine, the Russian nuclear torpedo "Poseidon" attracts the interest of the whole world, Yahoo News Japan reports. The radioactive wave caused by it is higher than the Empire State Building and is capable of reaching Washington. The United States has nothing to resist the "Doomsday weapon".

On October 14, 2022, a ceremony was held in Bremerhaven (Germany) to hand over to the Egyptian Navy the lead frigate Al-Aziz (tail number "904") of the MEKO 200EN project, built by the German shipbuilding association thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), in a series of four ordered ships.

The lead ship, a Zumwalt-class destroyer, recently left Japan, where she was on her long voyage across the Pacific Ocean. Prior to that, the ship visited the US naval base on Guam on September 19. The current cruise is the longest voyage of the destroyer from the home port in San Diego, since the ship was commissioned in 2016.

At the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) shipyard in Kobe, on October 12, a ceremony of baptism and launching of the SS-515 Jingei, designed for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces, took place.

On October 11, a visiting meeting of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security on the topic "The current state, prospects for the development of the forces and means of defense of the Kaliningrad Special Region in a changing geopolitical situation" was held at the Yantar PSZ (part of the USC).

The third in the series and the second serial non-nuclear submarine of the new generation type Taigei project 29SS launched in Japan. The ceremony was held today, October 12, at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) shipyard in Kobe.

In the second week of November, Japan will host the Malabar 2022 naval exercise with the participation of India, Australia, Japan and the United States. In addition, the Indian Navy will take part in the International Fleet Review (IFR), which will be held in the first week of November and will be dedicated to the 70th anniversary of the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF), according to the Indian daily newspaper The Hindu.

Andrey Baranov, Deputy Director General for Foreign Economic Activity and Military-Technical cooperation, told Sergey Safronov, the head of the specialized editorial office of RIA Novosti, in an interview with the Deputy Director General of JSC "Central Design Bureau "Rubin" for foreign economic activity and military-technical cooperation, about the plans of the Design Bureau, the projects of which submarines and drones are being developed, and how work is going on to create an anaerobic power plant for non-nuclear submarines.

When it comes to Taiwan, the Eastern Command will start first

The only one of the seven old military districts of the PLA, which in its former form was transformed into a new command, turned out to be the Nanjing Military District. As a result of the 2017 military reform, it became the Eastern Command (VC), or, if translated literally, the Eastern Combat Command Zone.

Russia is not inferior to NATO in the development of nuclear weapons, writes Al Mayadeen. Its missiles can be launched from the sea, air and land, and some of them are equipped with separable individual guidance combat units. In the event of a nuclear war, the alliance forces will be destroyed within half an hour.

The US military has found a new way to confront China. The Pentagon is creating a special tactical group that will combine the forces of the Navy and the Marine Corps for operations in the Pacific. How this will change the situation in the region — in the RIA Novosti material.

On October 7, 2022, in Vyborg, at the Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant PJSC (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC JSC), a solemn ceremony of launching the project 23550 head border patrol ship of the 1st rank of the ice class "Blizzard" (code "Ermak"), which is being built for the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation, was held") with the factory number 235.

Ukrainian President Zelensky urged the West not to wait until Russia strikes with nuclear weapons, but to launch a preemptive strike — without specifying whether it is nuclear or not. Many Western analysts, meanwhile, have no doubt that Russia is preparing to use tactical nuclear weapons somewhere on the territory of Ukraine. What does the Russian military doctrine say about this? And why, from a military-technical point of view, does it make no sense to use tactical nuclear weapons, but should we start with strategic ones? Naked Science understands the details.

As reported on the web resource forums.airbase.ru , On September 30, 2022, in St. Petersburg at Almaz Shipbuilding Company JSC, a flag-raising ceremony was held for border ships, boats and support vessels on the border patrol ship of the 2nd rank PPK-831 project 22120 (code "Blizzard") with the factory number 057 (onboard number "457"), which became part of the Coast Guard of the Border Service of the FSB of the Russian Federation. It became the eighth ship in the series of Project 22120. Earlier it was reported that the ship was to be named "Roman Chemeryuk", but to date there is no information about the assignment of this name to it.