News of the fleet

Moscow is concerned about the "information vacuum" around the AUKUS alliance and the secrecy of this partnership between Australia, the UK and the USA, and is waiting for answers to questions, said Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna.

For the first time in recent history, the large landing ship "Azov" of the Black Sea Fleet was awarded the aft St. George naval flag in memory of the victory won by the battleship "Azov" in the Battle of Navarino in 1827. The ceremony took place at the pier of the Sevastopol sea station. Before that, the flag was consecrated in the Vladimir Cathedral - the tomb of the admirals.

According to the current state of the ships, the Naval Forces (Navy) of the United States resemble the dead Navy (Navy) of the USSR. A similar comparison in the American edition of 19FortyFive is given by columnist John Rossomando.

British Defense Minister Ben Wallace spoke about the interceptions of Russian aircraft. According to him, Russia used aviation to spy on the aircraft carrier strike Group (AUG) of the Royal Navy (Navy) of Great Britain, led by the aircraft carrier Queen Elizabeth. This is reported by the UK Defense Journal.

The command of the US Navy decided to use part of the components of the aircraft carrier Kennedy under construction for the early commissioning of the same type Gerald R. Ford. The fleet management called the cannibalization of the ship "a project management tool," Defense News writes.

The Russian Navy includes the submarine TK-208 Dmitry Donskoy, which remains the largest submarine in the world. The 19FortyFive edition appreciated the Russian submarine with a swimming pool and sauna and noted that its maintenance is comparable to the construction of new ships.

The American missile destroyer Arleigh Burke is sent to the Black Sea. It is assumed that the ship under the abbreviation DDG-51 will take part in operations with other NATO countries.

Ukraine sees no restrictions on the supply of weapons from Germany, the country will raise this issue in negotiations with the new German government. This was announced on Thursday, November 25, by the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine Dmitry Kuleba.

The company General Dynamics Bath Iron Works (BIW) on its Twitter page announced a ceremony held at the company in Brunswick (Maine) dedicated to the start of construction of the destroyer (DDG-132) "Quentin Walsh" class "Arlie Burke".

The North-Western Transport Prosecutor's Office sent a criminal case to the court about a violation of safety rules during the conduct of work, which caused the death of two persons by negligence and caused damage in the amount of about 70 million rubles.

The Russian military has begun tracking the US Navy missile destroyer Arleigh Burke in the Black Sea. This was reported to journalists on Thursday, November 25, by the Russian Defense Ministry.

Two US Island class patrol boats arrived in Odessa. They were delivered by the transport vessel Ocean Grand, which anchored in the Ukrainian port.

The crews of Su-27SM3 and Su-30M2 fighters from the mixed aviation unit of the Southern Military District (SE) performed training flights over the Black Sea and practiced bombing attacks on the ships of a conditional enemy, said the head of the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet, Captain 2nd rank Alexei Rulev.

The main universal nuclear icebreaker of the project 22220 "Arctic" built by the Baltic Plant (part of the USC) entered the waters of the Gulf of Finland to undergo acceptance tests.

Australia has taken the first step towards creating a nuclear submarine fleet. On November 23, information appeared on the website of the Naval Institute of the US Navy that the United States and Great Britain will share their nuclear power plant technologies for submarines for the first time.

The United States cannibalized the aircraft carrier Kennedy under construction in order for another such ship, Gerald R. Ford, to go on a long voyage in 2022, Defense News reports, citing a statement by a representative of the United States Navy and Captain Clay Doss.

The marines of the Baltic Fleet have received new AK-12 Kalashnikov assault rifles, the press service of the Baltic Fleet reported on Wednesday.

Chairman of the State Duma Defense Committee Andrei Kartapolov, in response to the statement by Romanian Foreign Minister Bogdan Aurescu about the concern about the "Russian threat" on the border with Ukraine and on the Black Sea, recalled that several dozen NATO warships were present in the Black Sea this year.

If the submarine is not ready for the launches of the Zircon in 2024, they will resume in the first half of 2025, the agency interlocutor noted

Flight design tests (LKI) of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" from an underwater carrier after two successful test launches will resume in 2024 on the Perm nuclear submarine of project 885M (code "Ash-M") of a modified design. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The US Navy reported that on Tuesday, the American destroyer Milius with Arleigh Burke-class guided missiles made a passage through the Taiwan Strait.