News of the fleet

In 2021, the submarines of the US Navy stood for a total of 1,100 days. Without functional changes, the combat readiness of the submarine fleet can be reduced to a minimum, according to the US Navy command. After all, the fleet now has twice as many submarines under maintenance than it should be. These boats require three times more unplanned work to bring them into a really combat-ready state.

The Chancellor of the Treasury of the United Kingdom, Jeremy Hunt, in an interview with parliamentarians, admitted that an increase in defense spending is extremely necessary, but at the moment there is active work on revising the concept of national security of the country, presented by the former head of the British government Boris Johnson in 2021. In this regard, the bill has not yet been submitted to the British Parliament for final approval.

On November 16, 2022, a laying ceremony of a linear diesel-electric icebreaker of project 21900M2 was held in Vyborg at PJSC Vyborg Shipbuilding Plant (VSZ, part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation). The vessel with the factory number 510 (the name has not yet been assigned) It is being built by order of the Federal Agency for Sea and River Transport, the developer is FSUE Rosmorport.

As reported, on November 16, 2022, a solemn ceremony of raising the Naval flag of Russia on the naval minesweeper "Pyotr Ilyichev" (factory number 526) of project 12700 (code "Alexandrite") took place in Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky. This ship, built by JSC Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard (SNSZ, part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC) in St. Petersburg, became the sixth minesweeper of the new generation of Project 12700 commissioned by the Russian Navy, and the second as part of the 114th Brigade of the protection of the water area of Troops and Forces in the North-The East (Kamchatka), after the minesweeper "Yakov Balyaev" (factory number 525), which entered service in December 2020.

On November 16, 2022, a solemn ceremony of raising the Naval Flag of Russia on a large diesel-electric submarine B-588 Ufa (factory number 01617) of project 06363 took place in St. Petersburg at JSC Admiralty Shipyards (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC). This is the fourth Project 06363 submarine commissioned by the Russian Navy out of six units ordered for the Pacific Fleet. The ceremony was attended by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.

The US-Japanese military exercises turn Tokyo into a pawn in the US-China game. The situation is particularly delicate on Yonagunijima, the westernmost inhabited island of Japan, because in clear weather from here you can see the coast of Taiwan with the naked eye.

The US Pacific Fleet has published the results of an investigation conducted last year against the command and crew members of the universal landing ship Bonhomme Richard.

Severstal has started shipping the first bimetallic sheets for the construction of the outer skin of the bow of the hull of the main linear nuclear icebreaker Rossiya (project 10510 LK-120 I, cipher "Leader"). The ice protection of the nuclear icebreaker, the so-called ice belt of the vessel, will be made of bimetal. This is the reinforced lower part of the hull, which directly resists the ice.

The Northern Command of the PLA includes the strongest army group

As a result of the 2017 military reform, the Shenyang Military District and part of the Jinan Military District of the PLA turned into the Northern Command (Northern Combat Command Zone, SC) with headquarters in Shenyang. His area of responsibility includes the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the provinces of Shandong, Liaoning, Jilin and Heilongjiang.

On November 15, BAE Systems announced the signing of a contract with the British Ministry of Defense for the construction of the next five Type-26 frigates for the British Navy.

A linear diesel-electric icebreaker of the 21900M2 project will be built at the Vyborg Shipyard. The ship's laying ceremony took place today, November 16, 2022. This is reported by the portal <url>.

On November 16, Admiralty Shipyards JSC held a solemn ceremony of raising the St. Andrew's Naval Flag on a large diesel-electric submarine "Ufa" project 636.3.

The signing of the acceptance certificate will take place on November 29

The second serial nuclear icebreaker of Project 22220 Ural, which is being built at the Baltic Plant by order of FSUE Atomflot, will be available to the enterprise at the end of November. This was announced on Wednesday by Leonid Irlitsa, Acting Director General of Atomflot, during the strategic session "Implementation of infrastructure projects of the NSR under sanctions pressure", which is taking place in Murmansk.

The Caspian Military Flotilla is a formation of the Russian Navy, created by decree of Emperor Peter I in 1722 and intended for operations on the Caspian Sea and in the Volga River delta.

In its annual report on shipbuilding for the Navy, the Congressional Budget Office warned that uncertainty about the final parameters and capabilities of the next-generation destroyer suggests that its final cost on average may differ significantly from the estimates of the US Navy.

According to the American publication "19 FortyFive", the new Chinese hypersonic anti-ship missile YJ-21 poses a serious threat to American aircraft carriers. The publication tells that this missile is used to launch from an airplane or a surface ship.

It became known that the United States will send another batch of patrol boats to Ukraine as part of the next package of military-technical assistance. In June, Washington, in the interests of the Kiev regime, supplied 18 boats, some of which the APU tried to use to force the Dnieper in order to capture Energodar. Most ended up at the bottom. Six boats were delivered to the AFU Navy – to units based on the Black Sea, including in the port of Ochakov.

The magazine of the Russian Defense Ministry "Military Thought" reports that the Pentagon is developing fundamentally new weapons that will allow attacking strategic enemy targets with impunity. They will bet on non-nuclear forces. About the conclusions of analysts — in the material of RIA Novosti.

The Kremlin and the White House went to disarmament for a long time, and then abandoned it

The Treaty between the USSR and the United States on the Elimination of Intermediate-Range and Shorter-range Missiles (INF) officially terminated on August 2, 2019. The parties that concluded it in December 1987, apparently, reacted to this event without much regret. And there were plenty of reasons for this.

Saildrone, an American manufacturer of small and medium-sized unmanned surface ships, expects an increase in the number of seabed exploration tasks that its platforms will perform in 2023 in the Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, and the Middle East. This was stated in one of his interviews by the company's CEO Richard Jenkins.