News of the fleet

On June 6, the Ministry of Defense of India announced the approval by the Defense Procurement Council (DAC) of a project to purchase eight new-generation Corvette-class ships.

Is the Russian exclave of Kaliningrad surrounded by the EU a valuable resource or a burden?

On the one hand, it is possible to "threaten" Europe from Kaliningrad, but on the other hand, during the war he himself is threatened with isolation, writes the Economist. And there is hardly another area in Russia that is being watched so closely by Western spies.

The ships also worked out actions to protect against weapons of mass destruction at sea crossing, including carrying out special treatment in case of conditional exposure to radiation contamination.

According to HD Hyundai, the large Prism Courage gas carrier with a displacement of 122,000 tons became the first vessel with autonomous control to make the transoceanic crossing, having overcome more than 10,000 km.

The Navy once made America a superpower. Will they be able to again?

Foreign Policy cites the opinion of American experts about the decline of US naval power. The author complains about the quantitative and qualitative reduction of the US Navy and calls its role in the world not decisive, but "fragmentary".

On June 4, 2022, the ceremony of the official laying of the main American nuclear missile submarine of the new generation, called SSBN 826 District of Columbia, was held, and which is being built for the US Navy at the main shipbuilding enterprise of the General Dynamics Electric Boat (GDEB) division of General Dymamics Corporation in Groton (Connecticut).

The lead multi-purpose submarine of the new generation Suffren of the Barracuda type has officially entered the combat structure of the French fleet. The ceremony with the participation of the new French Defense Minister Sebastian Lecornu took place at the naval base in Brest.

Viktor Litovkin — about why the United States and its satellites do not like the military and military-technical cooperation between Russia and China

In the last decade of May, strategic bombers of Russia and China conducted joint air patrols over the waters of the Japanese and East China Seas, as well as over the western Pacific Ocean.

What is the US trying to achieve in the Indian Ocean

US President Joseph Biden signed a decree on the return of the American military contingent to Somalia. It seems to be an ordinary case, so no one paid attention to it. But, having opened the map and assessed the situation, it can be understood that it is not the fight against terrorism in this ill–fated country, but its geographical location - in the west of the Indian Ocean, on the Horn of Africa.

The Maritime Board supported the draft of the updated Maritime Doctrine of the Russian Federation

On May 20 in St. Petersburg at the Admiralty, under the leadership of Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov, a regular meeting of the Maritime Board under the Government of the Russian Federation was held on the results of the country's maritime activities over the past 2021.

As mentioned earlier, the prospective fleet of small surface warships (Small Surface Combatants, SSC) of the US Navy will consist of frigates of the FFG(X) project and LCS class ships.

To clear the water area, it will take the efforts of several states, experts say

Statements that Russia is preventing the export of grain from Ukraine are a bluff, Russian President Vladimir Putin said on June 3. He guaranteed peaceful passage in a civil manner

The supply of a wide range of Western weapons to Ukraine is not only aimed at, as the EU leadership puts it, "defeating Russia on the battlefield." Moreover, according to a number of signs, the combat effectiveness of both Stingers, Javelins, and Bayraktars turned out to be almost shameful. However, the very fact of the participation of these types of weapons in real battles is of great importance for the West. Why?

The only Russian aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov is an aging smoking relic. So the ship was named in the publication of the American edition 19FortyFive.

The loss of the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet raises questions

After the sinking by the Ukrainians of their flagship of the Navy "Hetman Sagaidachny" in the port of Nikolaev, hardly anyone expected that the Russian Guards missile cruiser "Moscow" would also be in danger. How this happened is still a mystery and causes a lot of misconceptions. Of course, the commission appointed by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation to investigate the causes of the death of the Black Sea Fleet's largest warship by displacement will sort everything out. But the continuing aura of mystery around this emergency gives rise to unnecessary unhealthy questions, guesses and assumptions.

The annual professional holiday of the Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy has been celebrated since 1996, when the first of June was approved as the date for holding festive events by the Northern Fleet in honor of the creation of the Northern Military Flotilla on this day in 1933, which received the name of the Northern Fleet in 1937.

A meeting of the Navy's Military Council was held at the Admiralty under the leadership of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.

More than 100 ships and submarines, 40 aircraft and 10 coastal missile systems were involved in the exercises.

Russia confirmed the readiness of the carrier to use a promising rocket. The frigate of the Northern Fleet "Admiral Gorshkov" has successfully completed a test cycle of the hypersonic cruise missile "Zircon". This was announced by the commander of the fleet, Admiral Alexander Moiseev, RIA Novosti writes.

Objects are being built in the cities of Gadzhievo and Severomorsk

At the arsenals of the Northern Fleet (SF) in Gadzhievo and Severomorsk, work has begun on the construction of workshops for the maintenance of marine underwater weapons. This was stated on Wednesday by the commander of the SF Admiral Alexander Moiseev.