News of the fleet

The ice-resistant self-propelled platform "North Pole", the construction of which is being completed at the Admiralty Shipyards shipbuilding enterprise in St. Petersburg, begins factory sea trials. This was announced by the director of the "Arctic and Antarctic Research Institute" Alexander Makarov.

Serial production of DGTA-55R gas turbine engines for Russian frigates has been started in Russia, production has been mastered at enterprises that are part of Rostec State Corporation. This was announced by the head of Rostec, Sergey Chemezov.

Sergey Chemezov, CEO of Rostec State Corporation, presented the company's annual report for 2021 to Russian President Vladimir Putin. Among the key achievements of the Corporation is an increase in consolidated revenue by 9.9% to 2.06 trillion rubles, as well as a significant increase in the production of civilian products – its share in sales reached 45.5%.

Independence-class Coastal Stealth Ships (LCS) The US Navy can be decommissioned ahead of time. Six of them were found to have structural damage.

Kaliningrad has become a real thorn for NATO

Kaliningrad became a nuclear outpost of Russia back in 2016, Mond notes. And although the newspaper notes the fear that the Russian enclave causes among the Balts, it follows from the text that the West is to blame for its militarization. All of Russia's steps to strengthen its defense were responses to NATO's actions in the region.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation showed footage of the launch of Russian Kalibr cruise missiles from one of the frigates of the Black Sea Fleet. The video was published on Tuesday, May 17.

As stated in the official statement of the Russian Foreign Ministry, our country is terminating membership in the Council of the Baltic Sea States (CBSS). At the same time, the ministry clarified that such a step would not affect Russia's presence in the region. Moscow still intends to cooperate with all countries pursuing a responsible policy in the Baltic, to protect the interests of compatriots.

As reported, at the beginning of May 2022, the Black Sea Fleet commissioned the patrol ship "Sergey Kotov" (factory number 164) - the fourth ship of project 22160 built for the Russian Navy and the second, built at LLC Shipbuilding Plant "Gulf" in Kerch. The ship's commissioning activities were carried out without publicity in Sevastopol in the context of an ongoing special military operation.

Equipped with Kalibr missiles, the Alrosa submarine returns to the Black Sea Fleet after modernization. This was reported on Monday, May 16, by TASS in the power structures of Sevastopol.

The US Navy opposes the additional deployment of sea-based nuclear weapons on ships and submarines. Their representatives believe that it is better to spend these funds on something more necessary, for example, on hypersound.

Military expert Belousov explained the reason for NATO's activity around Kaliningrad

A whole series of military exercises of NATO countries has started near the Kaliningrad region. They take place on the territory of Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, and other countries. At the same time, not defensive, but offensive actions are being worked out. At the same time, against the background of Sweden and Finland joining NATO, Poland announced the need to "demilitarize" Kaliningrad. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out why the North Atlantic Alliance needed it.

The North Atlantic Alliance, NATO should act not only in Europe, but also very far from the Atlantic – in the Indo-Pacific region. At least, the UK leadership is confident in this. Why exactly did London put forward this initiative, what might NATO's advance in Asia look like – and how will it be met there?

The present material is the publication ИнВоен.info The publication of an article by Harry Lye, a senior reporter at Shephardmedia Publishing house, on the prospects for the concept of coastal response groups (LRG, Littoral Response Group; hereinafter - PGR) as part of the British Navy. The concept is published in the document of the British Military Command for 2021 (UK's 2021 Defense Command Paper).

The ground test training complex (aviation) NITKA in the Crimean Saks will remain the only complex for training naval aviation pilots, the use of the new complex in Yeysk is not planned. This was reported by a source in the Russian defense industry.

In Russia, the Day of the Black Sea Fleet is celebrated on May 13. Political scientist Vladimir Kornilov told a story on Sputnik radio about how Russian officers and sailors managed to keep the Black Sea Fleet base in Sevastopol after the declaration of independence of Ukraine.

The Baltic will soon become a NATO sea. This is the opinion of Latvian Foreign Minister Edgar Rinkevics. The Latvian Foreign Minister said this in an interview with the British newspaper Financial Times.

The strategic submarine missile carrier "Prince Oleg" (project 955-A) during training pierced the Arctic ice with a torpedo and created a wormwood to practice surfacing before launching a missile strike, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported on Friday.

The Australian edition of The Australian Financial Review published Andrew Tillett's article "Crew feared aging Australian submarine would sink in deep sea mishap" ("The crew feared that the aging Australian submarine would sink at great depth as a result of the incident"), which reports on a previously unreported serious incident with an Australian diesel-electric submarine SSG 77 Sheean type Collins boat.

Rear Admiral Viktor Borisov told why the United States is dragging Helsinki and Stockholm into NATO

Finnish President Sauli Niinisto and the country's Prime Minister Sanna Marin announced that they support the decision to apply for NATO membership. In the Swedish Parliament, the hearings on joining the alliance are scheduled for May 16. The Kremlin said that such a move "threatens the security of Russia." What Sweden and Finland can give to NATO is in the material of "Gazeta.Ru».

The Power of the Future – military AI

Foreign Affairs is sounding the alarm – the United States is beginning to seriously lag behind China and Russia in the field of military artificial intelligence. The Pentagon is unnecessarily resting on its laurels, not understanding the enormous importance of AI. The authors write that a number of new US developments with AI have failed. America can cede military primacy in the world to its opponents.