News of the fleet

The breakdown of the agreement between Australia and France on non-nuclear submarines could end up costing Australian taxpayers 5.5 billion Australian dollars (4.15 billion US dollars), despite the fact that the deal was torn up long before the construction of the ships began. Andrew Greene writes about this in an article for ABC News.

On March 31, the Spanish company Navantia announced the handover ceremony of the Avante-2200, (828) El Jubail class corvette to the command of the Saudi Arabian Navy, held in San Fernando.

A ship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet carried out a salvo launch of seven Kalibr cruise missiles at targets on the territory of Ukraine, the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Tuesday.

"This is a fundamental shift in regional international relations." With these words, the Australian press assesses the seemingly harmless agreement concluded between the PRC and the Solomon Islands. What exactly is contained in this document, why is the Australian leadership and society frightened by what is happening and what does all this have to do with the events in Ukraine?

In the States, they believe that the war with Russia is on the threshold, and the Pentagon has almost no combat-ready "floating airfields" for it

Since Turkey closed the Bosphorus and Dardanelles Straits to warships of all non-Black Sea states with the outbreak of hostilities in Ukraine, the 6th Fleet of the US Navy did the only thing left in its power to get as close as possible to the battlefields.

Russia has attracted all types and kinds of armed forces to the military special operation in Ukraine, with the exception of the "nuclear triad". Both time-tested weapons and brand-new ones are used. About what the Russian army is fighting with — in the material of RIA Novosti.

The Ministry of Economic Development has started collecting opinions and proposals from several dozen ministries, associations, banks, consortia and hardcore organizations on promising methods of state planning in the Russian radio-electronic industry. The Ministry of Economy is interested in their position on the elements of the 1969 Soviet regulation on the Ministry of Electronic Industry, as well as information on the previously applied methodology of the USSR State Planning Committee.

China shows an example of increasing the power of Russian destroyers

The first month of the special military operation passed with limited use of the Navy. The main contribution of sailors to the demilitarization of Ukraine so far goes along the line of hitting important military infrastructure facilities with launches of high-precision missiles of the 3M14 "Caliber" family from surface ships and submarines.

The Globe and Mail (Canada): Russia has plans for the Arctic – how will Canada respond?

Canada can gain a significant military advantage over Russia in the Arctic, says the author of The Globe and Mail. But readers of the publication believe that nothing but incompetence and lack of real steps should be expected from the current government.

Why the Russian Navy relies on diesel submarines of the Varshavyanka project

Admiralty Shipyards launched a diesel-electric submarine (DPL) of the 636.3 Varshavyanka project, which was named Ufa. As part of the project, this submarine will become the fourth in the Pacific Fleet and the tenth in the entire Russian Navy. "Newspaper.Ru" understood the peculiarities of "Varshavianok".

Experts explained the meaning of the Russian Armed Forces firing drills in the Kuril Islands

More than a thousand servicemen of the Eastern Military District (VVO) are conducting training firing from artillery guns and anti-tank missile systems on the Kuril Islands, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out why Russia is conducting exercises in the Kuril Islands right now.

On March 31, 2022, the launch ceremony of the large diesel-electric submarine B-588 Ufa (factory number 01617), which is under construction for the Navy of the Russian Federation, took place at Admiralty Shipyards JSC (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC - USC JSC) in St. Petersburg project 06363. This is the fourth of six Project 06363 submarines being built for the Pacific Fleet.

On March 31, 2022, at the Spanish naval base La Carraca in San Fernando in Cadiz, a ceremony was held for the transfer of the Avante 2200 project built by the Spanish shipbuilding association Navantia in the ordered series of five units of the large corvette Al Jubail (tail number "828", construction number C546) to the Saudi Arabian Navy.

US warships will not return to the Black Sea until the mine danger created in the region by the Armed Forces of Ukraine is completely eliminated, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council (SB) of the Russian Federation Mikhail Popov believes.

Why American warships left the Black Sea

The US Navy has withdrawn its ships from the Black Sea, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said. "Newspaper.Ru" was looking into what this decision might be related to.

A twenty-volume almanac about the history and traditions of Russian cadetship has been published

In April, the unique exhibition "Cadet Roll Call", dedicated to the 290th anniversary of primary military education in Russia, which has been working for six months, is coming to an end. Against the background of the exhibition in the Moscow Museum of Military Uniforms, a presentation of the book series of the same name took place. The multi-volume almanac was published as part of the literary and historical project "Cadet Heritage".

About the US nuclear policy in the new conditions

At the very beginning of March 2022, the US Congressional Research Service published a report "Russia's Nuclear Weapons: doctrinal foundations, organization of troops and modernization". The head of the team of authors of this document was Amy F. Wolf, a nuclear weapons specialist and consultant to the US Department of State and the US Department of Defense.

In Russia, they can build two diesel-electric boats of the 636 Varshavyanka project, which are called black holes, per year. This was announced by the General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov, RIA Novosti reports.

The journey from nuclear missiles to cyberwar planning took seventy years

After World War II, Washington completely abandoned its previously characteristic foreign policy self-isolation (more precisely, "closure" within the Western Hemisphere).

The Americans finished off an emergency Soviet submarine, and then managed to raise it

The echo of the US CIA's strategic operation Jennifer, carried out by the Pentagon with cynical immorality, cannot be silenced in any way. The first deputy chief of Naval intelligence of the headquarters of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, Captain Anatoly Shtyrov, monitored this extraordinary event in real time. And gave him a merciless assessment years later.