News of the fleet

Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu named priority tasks for equipping the army next year. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Dmitry Kornev commented on the plans of the defense department.

The Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky submarine conducted firing in the Sea of Japan. Military observer, retired Colonel Viktor Baranets commented on their results on Sputnik radio.

According to the commander of the SF Alexander Moiseev, these tasks were solved during the 10th Arctic campaign

In 2021, the Northern Fleet was preparing the Arctic group to ensure the security of maritime communications and areas of maritime economic activity of the Russian Federation, the commander of the SF Alexander Moiseev told reporters on Tuesday.

Defense Express: Island-type boats will receive Bushmaster cannons and Hydra II missiles

In 2022, the Naval Forces of Ukraine (VMSU) will begin installing American-made weapons on Island-type boats. The commander of the Navy Alexei Neizhpapa told about the new weapons. This is reported by Defense Express.

The crew of the ship worked out the tasks together with the delivery team of the manufacturer

The newest small rocket ship "Cyclone", which is planned to be included in the Black Sea Fleet, successfully performed artillery firing in the Black Sea during state tests, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Monday.

The creators of the Russian "invisible ship" are preparing for the first tests of their brainchild.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation agreed on a work plan for the corvette project 20380 "Sharp". The construction of this unique ship is now being completed in the Far East.

The Nimble corvette, which caught fire last Friday at a factory in St. Petersburg, will be restored after the fire and completed with the replacement of the ship's superstructure.

The era of sailing ships has long been in the past, but thanks to the efforts of decarbonization enthusiasts, it can experience something like a Renaissance already in the current decade. The French company Airseas has installed a test system of an automatic sailing mechanism on the cargo ship "Ville de Bordeaux", which will be tested in real working conditions for six months. The customer is very strict - the Airbus corporation, which uses this ship to deliver aircraft structures from all over Europe to the assembly plant in Toulouse.

The first test launch of the newest intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) "Sarmat" will not take place this year. Earlier, a TASS source in the defense industry said that one launch will be carried out by the end of 2021.

The crews of the frigate Admiral Grigorovich and the patrol ship Dmitry Rogachev conducted a complex of exercises with deck aircraft in the Mediterranean Sea, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) reported on Saturday.

France is building the first ship without a single paper drawing. On December 17, the press service of the Naval Group company held a keel laying ceremony for the first ship of the FDI project.

National Interest: The US Navy no longer seems to Russia to be an "unstoppable sea giant"

The US Navy Carrier Strike Group (CSG) no longer seems to Russia to be an "unstoppable sea giant". This is reported by the columnist of the National Interest magazine Mark Episkopos.

A criminal case has been initiated

A criminal case was initiated in St. Petersburg after a fire on the territory of the shipyard "Severnaya Verf", the representative of the Western Interregional Investigative Department for Transport of the Russian IC Elena Markovskaya told reporters on Saturday.

The American media recognize that the US Navy carrier strike groups no longer pose the former threat. New military developments will allow Russia to successfully resist them.

"The carrier Strike Group is one of the most powerful weapons in the arsenal and is capable of projecting unprecedented firepower far beyond American waters. These formidable formations have become not only the basis of the US naval doctrine, but also one of the most recognizable symbols of American military power," writes National Interest.

The latest Russian weapons, including the Zircon missiles, will allow the Russian Federation, in case of war, to strike at a group of the US Navy. This opinion was expressed on December 17 by journalist Mark Episkopos.

The complete elimination of the fire at the facility under construction in the Kirovsky district of St. Petersburg took more than a day, the press service of the Ministry of Emergency Situations of the city reported on Sunday.

A group of ships of the Chinese Navy, led by the first Chinese aircraft carrier Liaoning, is making the transition to the Pacific Ocean for subsequent exercises, the South China Morning Post (SCMP) reported on Sunday.

With the help of an onboard sonar station and magnetometers, they will independently detect and identify sea mines

The universal landing helicopter carriers (UDC) of the project 23900 "Ivan Rogov" and "Mitrofan Moskalenko", which are being built at JSC "B. E. Butoma Shipbuilding Plant" (Kerch), will be equipped with mine-free unmanned boats (BEC) of Russian design. This was reported to TASS by a source in the shipbuilding industry.

The crew of the autonomous inhabited deep-sea rescue vehicle AS-36 "Bester" of the emergency rescue detachment of the Northern Fleet (SF) has started testing in the Kola Bay of the Barents Sea. This was reported by the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry on Friday, December 17.

The large anti-submarine ship (BOD) "Admiral Panteleev" of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) conducted an exercise to search for and destroy a submarine of a conditional enemy in the waters of the Sea of Japan, Ilya Kolesnikov, head of the information support department of the press service of the Air Defense for the Pacific Fleet, told RG.