News of the fleet

As reported, on July 15, 2022, the towing of the Anatoly Shlemov minesweeper (factory number 527) of project 12700 (code "Alexandrite") built at JSC Sredne-Nevsky Shipbuilding Plant (SNSZ, part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC) from St. Petersburg to its base on the Pacific Coast began fleet.

Submarines of Project 949 began to work out the cover of a strategically important route

The Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy conducted exercises of nuclear submarines in the area of the Northern Sea Route, a source in the Russian Defense Ministry told Izvestia. The maneuvers took place in the spring and early summer. The military tested the capabilities of Project 949 submarines during operations in this region.

Ships will deliver cargo to the city to restore the destroyed infrastructure

For the first time, a car-passenger ferry with civilian cargo was poisoned in Mariupol from Yeysk. The trial flight was completed on July 27, and regular transportation on this route will start in August. The operation of the ferry will be provided by the company "Oboronlogistics", part of the structure of the Ministry of Defense.

Russian shootings off the coast of Norway — a growing problem

Russia wants to "intimidate" the Norwegian authorities with naval exercises literally "along the Norwegian coast" and "disrupt NATO exercises," NRK reports. It is noteworthy that they take place in international waters at a distance of over 12 nautical miles from Norway.

The Mercury corvette, Severodvinsk and Vepr submarines will be shown to the public for the first time in St. Petersburg

47 ships and vessels, 42 aircraft and more than 3.5 thousand servicemen will take part in the main naval parade on the occasion of Navy Day on July 31. St. Petersburg is hosting the sixth parade in a row, since this tradition was revived in 2017.

The Spanish company Navantia announced the handover ceremony of the second Avante-2200 class corvette (830) "Al Diriyah" (Al Diriyah) to the command of the Saudi Arabian Navy on July 26 at its San Fernando (Cadiz) facility.

China is actively implementing the space program, launching new satellites into orbit and commissioning new compartments of the orbital station. According to the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation (CASIC), today China launched a new Lijian-1 launch vehicle for the first time.

The Russian Defense Ministry has called for a change in the order of passage along the Northern Sea Route for foreign warships. The military department proposes to oblige them to request permission to travel through Russian waters.

It turned out that Ukraine still has naval forces - at least, this follows from the statements of the Russian Defense Ministry that one of the Ukrainian ships was destroyed in the port of Odessa. Moreover, Ukraine has plans to create a river flotilla on the Dnieper. What are we talking about, what danger can this flotilla pose in the conditions of a special operation and how could it be destroyed?

Rear Admiral Valery Litvinov explained why a new cold war could start in the ocean

The American TV channel CNN called the Russian nuclear submarine Belgorod "a big and serious threat to the national security of the United States." Journalists refer to the opinion of the Congressional Research Service. They claim that the use of such a submarine "will change the strategy of the naval confrontation between the United States and Russia." "Newspaper.Ru" figured out why Americans are afraid of Belgorod.

The head of the US Navy's Air Warfare Directorate, Rear Admiral Andrew Loisel, answered questions from the Naval News online publication about the prospects for creating combat drones for the US army. According to him, the program for creating new UAVs will develop in three directions, based on the technical characteristics and purposes of using drones.

As the Kommersant newspaper reported in the article by Polina Smertina and Dmitry Kozlov, "Icebreakers say goodbye to LNG. Norilsk Nickel and Rosatom will build them diesel," Norilsk Nickel and Rosatom decided to build a diesel-electric icebreaker, abandoning the use of a fuel system on liquefied natural gas (LNG). They want to install only Russian equipment on the icebreaker, including Transmashholding diesel engines and conventional shaft lines instead of imported propeller columns. The refusal to use the LNG fuel system was expected due to sanctions, analysts say.

The Armed Forces of the Russian Federation struck a ship repair plant in Odessa and disabled the capacities of the enterprise for the repair and modernization of ships of Ukraine. This was announced on Sunday, July 24, by the official representative of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, Lieutenant General Igor Konashenkov.

The Kronshtadt silent submarine will cover strategic missile submarines

The underwater "black hole" — that's what the navy calls this submarine — will replenish the Northern Fleet in the fall. The Ministry of Defense has approved a plan to transfer the Kronstadt submarine of Project 677 Lada to the Navy.

Marcus Hellier, a senior analyst at the Australian Strategic Policy Institute, told the Guardian that the only way Australia will get a nuclear submarine by 2030 is if the US provides one of its own submarines.

The US Navy is preparing a plan to defeat the fleets of China and Russia

The return of the leading states to global confrontation is a fait accompli. One of the main participants in the new "geostrategic game" is the United States, which has promptly moved from the strategic concept of the "global war on terror" and countering "rogue states" to "competition with equal opponents." Washington understands China and Russia as such opponents today, which leaves an imprint on the nature and directions of America's military construction.

Unmanned vehicles are becoming the main weapon of naval operations

The Ukrainian crisis has become an example of the mass use of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), not only over land, but also over the sea. For the first time in the history of armed conflicts, drone drones claim a major role in naval operations.

This publication is a continuation of the article by the Professor of the University of Lodz, Dr. Robert Czulda (Robert Czulda). In the first part , the author considered the tasks and capabilities of the Baltic Naval Forces, as well as some prospects for the development of the Estonian Navy. This passage also begins with the plans of the Merewaga command.

The US Navy has submitted to the US Congress a report on the needs of the fleet in ships. According to the document, the American navy needs 373 ships. This is 75 more ships than the Navy currently has at its disposal. Most of the information passed to Congress is classified. The exception is a summary of the structure of the forces of the American fleet.

Information about the withdrawal from the Russian fleet of the submarine missile carrier project 941UM "Shark" "Dmitry Donskoy" does not correspond to reality. This was reported by several sources in the shipbuilding industry and law enforcement agencies of the North.