News of the fleet

Austal Limited has announced the transfer by its Austal USA division to the US Navy Command of the Independence-class coastal zone warship, LCS-30 Canberra.

Despite its relatively modest size, Russian diesel-electric submarines pose a real threat to the US Navy, writes 19fortyfive. The problem is their noiselessness - even compared to nuclear-powered ships. American sailors know this and do not like non-nuclear submarines produced in Russia.

Andrei Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Defense Committee, believes that Russian ships with Zircon hypersonic missiles can be located in the port of Tartus in Syria to completely block the Mediterranean Sea.

The crews of large amphibious ships were on the march for 1.5 months

The large landing ships (BDK) of the Baltic Fleet "Minsk" and "Korolev" returned to the military harbor of Baltiysk after completing the tasks of a long-distance sea voyage, the press service of the fleet reported.

TASS: the corvette "Agile" to be fully restored after a fire at the shipyard

In 2026, the Nimble corvette can be fully restored after a fire that occurred on December 17 during the construction of the vessel at the Severnaya Shipyard in St. Petersburg. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source in the shipbuilding industry.

The submarine Generalissimo Suvorov will strengthen the Pacific Fleet - the commander-in-chief of the Navy Nikolai Evmenov expressed firm confidence in this at the launch of a new ship from the slipway, which was built at Sevmash according to the project of the Central Design Bureau Rubin and will be armed with the Bulava strategic missile system.

This is the second serial missile carrier, which was laid down and built according to the improved project 09552 "Borey-A". The Prince Oleg in front of him has already been accepted into the Navy and on December 21 raised the St. Andrew's flag - on the same day as the Novosibirsk submarine (the Ash-M project of the Malachite Design Bureau).

Small rocket and artillery ships, as well as base minesweepers arrived in the city

More than 20 ships of the Caspian Flotilla have been relocated in Dagestan from Makhachkala to a new military base in Kaspiysk, where a port has been built to accommodate the flotilla's forces and assets. This was reported to journalists on Monday in the press service of the Southern Military District.

In Mishukovo, the main base of hydrographers of the Northern Fleet, on December 24, a solemn flag-raising ceremony was held on a new hydrographic boat of the project 23040G "Leonid Senchura".

On December 24, the Baltic Plant (part of the USC) hosted the signing ceremony of the act of acceptance and transfer of the first serial universal nuclear icebreaker "Siberia" project 22220. The ceremony was held on board the newest vessel.

The first launches of the main engines and diesel generators took place on the "Sharp" corvette, which is being tested at the delivery base of the Amur Shipbuilding Plant (part of the USC) in Vladivostok.

As part of the celebration of the 74th anniversary of the establishment of the Myanmar Navy, on December 24, a ceremony was held at the Thilawa Dockyard in Sinmalaike (Yangon Naval Base) to introduce the Type-035 submarine transferred from the presence of the PLA Navy into the Myanmar fleet.

The only surviving research vessel from the Soviet "star flotilla" is being transferred to the Kaliningrad Region and will remain a museum afloat.

The Pentagon's Advanced Defense Development Agency (DARPA) has signed a contract with Northrop Grumman Systems and Martin Defense to create a full-scale demonstrator of the underwater robot Manta Ray. The military wants this robot to be able to work in the ocean for a long time without maintenance and repair.

The corvette "Savvy" conducted an exercise in the Baltic Sea with the combat launch of an anti-aircraft missile from the Redoubt complex, the press service of the Baltic Fleet reported.

As reported by the Global Times, Chinese experts have completed tests of an air-independent power plant (VNEU) based on a Stirling engine. They want to use it on new non-nuclear submarines of the 039C project.

The state tests, within the framework of which the training took place, are planned to be completed by the end of 2021

The crew of the newest patrol ship "Sergey Kotov", built for the Black Sea Fleet, for the first time worked out the reception on the deck of the Ka-27PS search and rescue helicopter of the fleet's naval aviation, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said in a statement on Friday.

The Americans have finally eliminated the difficulties with electromagnetic hoists for moving ammunition to the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Gerald R. Ford. In total, there are 11 such "elevators" on board.

The missile destroyer USS Gravely entered the Turkish naval base Aksaz in the Sea of Marmara, the 6th operational Fleet of the United States reported.

Two Borey-A missile submarines will be laid down at Sevmash in 2023

In Russia, two strategic missile submarines of Project 955A ("Borey-A") will be laid down at the Sevmash enterprise in 2023, a source in the military-industrial complex told TASS.

The military exercises conducted by Iran this week in the Persian Gulf were a warning to Israel, said Hossein Salami, commander of the Iranian Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, amid fears that Tel Aviv may be hatching plans to attack Iranian nuclear facilities.