News of the fleet

Units of the Western and Southern military districts on Tuesday begin returning from exercises to their bases by rail and road, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Tuesday.

Together with the head of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, the Minister of Defense of Syria, Corps General Ali Ayyub, observed the progress of the Russian Navy exercises in Tartus

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu inspected the exercises of the Russian Navy in the eastern Mediterranean. This was reported on Tuesday in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu arrived in Syria, where he inspected the progress of the Russian Navy exercises in the Mediterranean Sea, the ministry told reporters.

Russia is ready to strike at violators of its maritime border, but the decision on this is being made at the highest level, Deputy Chief of the Main Operational Directorate of the General Staff of the Russian Federation Stanislav Gadzhimagomedov said.

The Greek Parliament, at its meeting on February 15, will consider the three most important arms procurement programs for the Armed Forces of the country in recent years, aimed primarily at expanding the capabilities of the fleet.

The Kremlin added that "there is a certain protocol of actions against foreign ships - surface or underwater - in the event of their invasion into the territorial waters of the Russian Federation"

The press secretary of the President of Russia Dmitry Peskov redirected to the Ministry of Defense the question of possible military actions against foreign ships caught in Russian waters.

During exercises in the Pacific Fleet, a submarine was discovered near the Kuril island of Urup — presumably an American one, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu reported to President Vladimir Putin.

The operation to remove the submarine, which was discovered during exercises in the Pacific Fleet in the area of Urun Island, took about three hours. According to preliminary data, the ship belongs to the USA. This was announced on Monday, February 14, by Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu at a meeting with President Vladimir Putin.

The expulsion of a foreign, most likely American, submarine from the waters of Russia took about three hours, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The Sevmash enterprise is engaged in deep modernization of the heavy nuclear missile cruiser project 1144 "Admiral Nakhimov". After that, it will become the most powerful ship equipped with modern weapons. In the video, which was presented at Sevmash, you can watch the completion work.

More than 30 Mi-8AMTSh transport and assault helicopters are involved in bilateral company tactical exercises in the south of Russia, the press service of the Southern Military District reports.

The ships of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) have worked out the destruction of a detachment of ships of a conditional enemy during exercises in the Sea of Okhotsk, the press service of the fleet reported.

Warships of the Pacific Fleet in the Sea of Okhotsk as part of the exercises destroyed surface targets imitating a simulated enemy with artillery fire, the information support department of the Pacific Fleet reports.

To track the American nuclear submarine of the Virginia type, the sailors of the frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov used the sonar station "Polinom". The foreign submarine was identified by the sonar track and felt the impact of the anti-submarine system on the hull.

Military specialist Knutov spoke about the protection of the Black Sea by the Bastion complexes

The Russian coastal missile system (DBK) "Bastion" can hit most existing ships. DBK provide protection of the Black Sea water area from any enemy. The director of the Museum of the Air Defense Forces (Air Defense), military expert Yuri Knutov told about this on Sputnik radio.

Large-scale naval exercises in the Black and Mediterranean Seas, in which three Project 1164 Atlant missile cruisers took part, became a formidable warning for NATO. We are talking about the ships "Marshal Ustinov", "Varyag" and "Moscow".

The Italians launched the Giovanni delle Bande Nere Pattugliatore Polivalente d'altura (PPA) type ship. He became the fourth representative of this project and the first in an improved version.

The maneuvers were conducted in preparation for major naval exercises under the overall leadership of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy

Pilots of a separate mixed aviation regiment of naval aviation and crews of anti-submarine ships of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) conducted joint exercises in the Black Sea to search and track a submarine of a conditional enemy, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Monday.

Military exercises in the Crimea and in the Krasnodar Territory have worked out the deployment of coastal anti-ship complexes "Bastion" with conditional (electronic) launches of cruise missiles, the Black Sea Fleet said on Friday.

A detachment of warships of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) in the framework of exercises in the Sea of Okhotsk fired artillery at the ships of the "enemy", reports the Pacific Fleet.