News of the fleet

On June 23, the launch ceremony of the fifth Mogami-class frigate (also known as Project 30DX, 30FFM), designed for the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Forces, took place at the Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) shipyard in Nagasaki.

As reported by the TASS news agency, on June 26, 2022, the nuclear submarine K-571 Krasnoyarsk (factory number 163), completed by the construction of the Northern Machine-Building Enterprise Production Association JSC (SMP, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC JSC), went to sea for the first time from Severodvinsk for factory sea trials) - the third ship of the modified project 08851 (project 885M; code "Ash-M").

Nuclear "fangs" of Russia

Without the support of the EU and NATO, Lithuania would not have banned transit traffic to Kaliningrad, writes Al-Quds Al-Arabi. According to the author of the article, the West will not be able to maintain a firm position on this issue for a long time, because Russia is the strongest nuclear power in the world.

On June 23, at the base of the Caspian Flotilla, a ceremony was held for the solemn raising of the St. Andrew's flag on a new vessel – a dredging non-self-propelled dredger of the RDB 66.42M project.

The underwater drone-glider for the inspection of radiation-hazardous objects for the Ministry of Emergency Situations will be ready for mass production in three to four years.

The Pentagon has revealed the contents of a new package of military assistance to Ukraine, which will receive four more HIMARS MLRS, 18 patrol boats and 36 thousand artillery shells.

Turkey is a key country in the grain crisis

Turkey has developed a plan to evacuate Ukrainian grain, Sabah reports. If it works, then within six to eight months more than 35 million tons of cereals and sunflower oil will reach customers. At the same time, Ankara will receive a good bonus.

On June 23, 2022, US President Joe Biden signed documents on the provision of another new package of military assistance to Ukraine totaling $ 450 million and including military equipment from the presence of the US Department of Defense. Thus, the total amount of US military aid officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24 now reaches $6.05 billion.

JSC "PO "Sevmash" (part of the "United Shipbuilding Corporation", USC) has laid a manned underwater vehicle (OPA) of project 03660 "Jason" for work on offshore gas pipelines, the press service of the machine-building enterprise reports.

On Monday, during the passage of the American patrol ship Sirocco and the transport ship USNS Choctaw County through the Strait of Hormuz, three boats of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran approached them a short distance.

The loss of the cruiser "Moscow" caused serious changes in the tactics of warfare in the Black Sea Fleet. The command, having lost a valuable asset, managed to rebuild its work and gain a significant advantage in the theater.

The naval forces of Ukraine are at risk of becoming completely military-riverine, the fleet command has decided to form a flotilla on the Dnieper. This was stated by the commander-in-chief of the Navy Alexei Neizhpapa.

The management of the Turkish shipbuilding company Sedef Gemi Inşaatı Sanayii A.Ş (Sedef Shipyard, part of the Turkon holding) reported that on June 22, 2022, the universal amphibious ship L 400 Anadolu, built for the Turkish Navy at the Sedef Tuzla Tersanesi shipyard in Tuzla (southern the outskirts of the Asian part of Istanbul).

The battle path of the Polar Guard of the Russian Navy

In January 2020, the American magazine National Interest included the Russian Marine Corps in the top five in the world – along with similar branches of the US, UK, South Korea and China. According to the overseas edition, the Russian Marine Corps took second place.

Cruise missile submarines solve world-scale tasks

The improvement of anti-submarine warfare forces and means, which pushed back the boundaries of submarine strikes on surface ships (NC), the rapid development of guided missile weapons (URO), which ensures the defeat of both surface and coastal targets, prompted the fleets of the leading countries of the world to turn to equipping submarines with a new type of non–strategic missile weapons - cruise missiles (KR).

Military historian Miroslav Morozov — about the ancient Greek past and the current strategic importance of a small island in the Black Sea

The name of the island of the Snake is not the first time it appears in the world media after the start of the special military operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. It is enough to recall its occupation by the forces of the Black Sea Fleet on the first day of its operation and the surrender of its entire garrison, which the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, hastened to declare dead and posthumously awarded. On April 14, in the area of the same island, according to the official version of the Russian Defense Ministry, there was a fire on the missile cruiser "Moscow", after which, at the time of towing to Sevastopol, the ship sank.

Japan's Self-Defense Forces tracked five Russian Navy ships that entered the Sea of Japan after passing through the Tsushima Strait, NHK reports.

The Pentagon will get even more money, and the Americans will pay

The military budget is swelling by leaps and bounds, and Americans are becoming more vulnerable to real threats that cannot be defeated with weapons, the author of the Washington Post points out. In her opinion, if the United States intends to save the world, such an approach is both absurd and disastrous.

In 2021, the Australian authorities decided to abandon their contract for the supply of French Attack-class submarines in favor of 8 nuclear submarines that the United States will have to build as part of a partnership in the new AUKUS block.

It is reported that on the delivery base in Kronstadt on June 10 and 17, 2022, respectively, the signing of acceptance certificates of the anti-sabotage boats P-468 and P-471 (with factory numbers 991 and 992) of project 21980 (code "Grachonok") built for the Russian Navy took place. These are the eleventh and twelfth boats of this type built by JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky, which is part of JSC Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation (a group of companies of JSC Ak Bars Holding Company). Both boats will be part of the Baltic Fleet.