News of the fleet

The US Navy will withdraw from its combat strength five Ticonderoga-type missile cruisers equipped with Tomahawk cruise missiles, as part of the optimization of forces and reducing the cost of maintaining them, follows from these Congressional decisions on fleet financing.

The Chelyabinsk nuclear submarine of the project 949A (cipher "Antey") will be converted into a carrier of Onyx and Zircon cruise missiles under the project 949AM, work on the ship will begin after the modernization of the Irkutsk submarine of the same type is completed, a source in the shipbuilding industry told RIA Novosti.

The universal landing ships "Ivan Rogov" and "Mitrofan Moskalenko" will operate helicopter-type attack and reconnaissance drones

The universal landing helicopter carriers (UDC) of the project 23900 "Ivan Rogov" and "Mitrofan Moskalenko", which are being built at the Kerch shipyard "Gulf", will be adapted for basing attack and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This was reported to TASS by a source in the shipbuilding industry.

In the next 18 months, the authorities will have to make a choice in favor of British or American technologies

The creation of its own nuclear submarine fleet, for the construction of which Canberra broke the largest defense contract in its history with Paris, could cost Australia 171 billion Australian dollars ($122.2 billion) and will require at least 20 years. Such data was published on Tuesday by the Australian Strategic Policy Institute (ASPI).

The newest logistics support vessel Vsevolod Bobrov makes an inter-fleet transfer from Baltiysk to the main base point – Sevastopol, where it will become part of the Black Sea Fleet, said the head of the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet, Captain 2nd rank Alexey Rulev.

Huntington Ingalls Industries announced the cutting ceremony of the first steel for the destroyer URO (DDG-131) held at the Ingalls Shipbuilding division "George M. Neal" (George M. Neal) class "Arlie Burke".

Seriously injured in a collision with a seamount in the South China Sea, the nuclear submarine of the US Navy Connecticut arrived in San Diego, having overcome 6,200 nautical miles. What it's like to sail on a submarine with an open hull and damaged equipment, The Drive found out.

Moscow. December 14th. INTERFAX-AVN - The Kronstadt Company announced on Tuesday that it is creating a ground control point for the Hunter heavy drone.

Light helicopter and airplane-type vehicles will be launched using a pneumatic catapult

The newest marine platform is being developed for the Russian Navy, which will be designed to base tactical and reconnaissance unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). This was reported to TASS by a source in the shipbuilding industry.

40 years ago, on December 12, 1981, the TK-208 nuclear submarine was commissioned - the Project 941 submarine, better known as the first representative of the world's largest nuclear-powered Akula submarines.

The marine navigable floating crane SPK-60150 became part of the support vessels of the Kola flotilla of heterogeneous forces. A solemn raising of the flag of the auxiliary fleet of the Russian Navy took place at the main base of the association – the Polar One.

The crews of the Baltic Fleet warships in the Kaliningrad region conducted training on the detection of unidentified air targets and repelling attacks by means of an air attack of a simulated enemy.

The ship of the Ukrainian Navy "Donbass" moving to the Kerch Strait did not pose a threat, as it performed tasks in its territorial waters. The corresponding statement was made on December 9 by the headquarters of the Joint Forces Operation in Donbass.

On December 9, at the enterprise of the Pakistani company KSEW in Karachi, a cutting ceremony of the first steel was held for the construction of the fifth Hangor-class DPL ("Type-039B"), which looks little different from the previously developed "Type-039A".

The press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov believes that incidents like the one that occurred with the Ukrainian Navy "Donbass" are fraught with serious consequences.

More than two dozen modernized T-80BV tanks have entered service with the coastal troops of the Pacific Fleet. This technique will strengthen the striking capabilities of the Primorsky Marine Corps unit, the press service of the Pacific Fleet reported.

The British celebrate the return of the flagship of the Royal Navy from its first combat deployment. In six months, the aircraft carrier HMS Queen Elizabeth and its strike group have covered 49,000 nautical miles, making a trip across three oceans and five seas.

The large anti-submarine ship Admiral Panteleev of the Pacific Fleet made a scheduled call at the port of Manila (Republic of the Philippines) to replenish supplies and food.

Paris and Athens have signed a contract providing for the construction of three frigates for the Greek Navy in France, the Figaro newspaper reported on Saturday.

The US Navy received $98 million to continue research and development work on the creation of a new generation nuclear submarine with the conditional name SSN(X), follows from the report of the Congressional Research Service.