News of the fleet

Turkey is a key country in the grain crisis

Turkey has developed a plan to evacuate Ukrainian grain, Sabah reports. If it works, then within six to eight months more than 35 million tons of cereals and sunflower oil will reach customers. At the same time, Ankara will receive a good bonus.

On June 23, 2022, US President Joe Biden signed documents on the provision of another new package of military assistance to Ukraine totaling $ 450 million and including military equipment from the presence of the US Department of Defense. Thus, the total amount of US military aid officially allocated to Kiev since the beginning of the Russian special military operation in Ukraine on February 24 now reaches $6.05 billion.

JSC "PO "Sevmash" (part of the "United Shipbuilding Corporation", USC) has laid a manned underwater vehicle (OPA) of project 03660 "Jason" for work on offshore gas pipelines, the press service of the machine-building enterprise reports.

On Monday, during the passage of the American patrol ship Sirocco and the transport ship USNS Choctaw County through the Strait of Hormuz, three boats of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps of Iran approached them a short distance.

The loss of the cruiser "Moscow" caused serious changes in the tactics of warfare in the Black Sea Fleet. The command, having lost a valuable asset, managed to rebuild its work and gain a significant advantage in the theater.

The naval forces of Ukraine are at risk of becoming completely military-riverine, the fleet command has decided to form a flotilla on the Dnieper. This was stated by the commander-in-chief of the Navy Alexei Neizhpapa.

The management of the Turkish shipbuilding company Sedef Gemi Inşaatı Sanayii A.Ş (Sedef Shipyard, part of the Turkon holding) reported that on June 22, 2022, the universal amphibious ship L 400 Anadolu, built for the Turkish Navy at the Sedef Tuzla Tersanesi shipyard in Tuzla (southern the outskirts of the Asian part of Istanbul).

The battle path of the Polar Guard of the Russian Navy

In January 2020, the American magazine National Interest included the Russian Marine Corps in the top five in the world – along with similar branches of the US, UK, South Korea and China. According to the overseas edition, the Russian Marine Corps took second place.

Cruise missile submarines solve world-scale tasks

The improvement of anti-submarine warfare forces and means, which pushed back the boundaries of submarine strikes on surface ships (NC), the rapid development of guided missile weapons (URO), which ensures the defeat of both surface and coastal targets, prompted the fleets of the leading countries of the world to turn to equipping submarines with a new type of non–strategic missile weapons - cruise missiles (KR).

Military historian Miroslav Morozov — about the ancient Greek past and the current strategic importance of a small island in the Black Sea

The name of the island of the Snake is not the first time it appears in the world media after the start of the special military operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. It is enough to recall its occupation by the forces of the Black Sea Fleet on the first day of its operation and the surrender of its entire garrison, which the President of Ukraine, Vladimir Zelensky, hastened to declare dead and posthumously awarded. On April 14, in the area of the same island, according to the official version of the Russian Defense Ministry, there was a fire on the missile cruiser "Moscow", after which, at the time of towing to Sevastopol, the ship sank.

Japan's Self-Defense Forces tracked five Russian Navy ships that entered the Sea of Japan after passing through the Tsushima Strait, NHK reports.

The Pentagon will get even more money, and the Americans will pay

The military budget is swelling by leaps and bounds, and Americans are becoming more vulnerable to real threats that cannot be defeated with weapons, the author of the Washington Post points out. In her opinion, if the United States intends to save the world, such an approach is both absurd and disastrous.

In 2021, the Australian authorities decided to abandon their contract for the supply of French Attack-class submarines in favor of 8 nuclear submarines that the United States will have to build as part of a partnership in the new AUKUS block.

It is reported that on the delivery base in Kronstadt on June 10 and 17, 2022, respectively, the signing of acceptance certificates of the anti-sabotage boats P-468 and P-471 (with factory numbers 991 and 992) of project 21980 (code "Grachonok") built for the Russian Navy took place. These are the eleventh and twelfth boats of this type built by JSC Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky, which is part of JSC Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation (a group of companies of JSC Ak Bars Holding Company). Both boats will be part of the Baltic Fleet.

The Chinese-made torpedo weapon began its history with a product under the designation "Fish-1", which was a copy of the Soviet torpedo 53-38.

Ukraine attacked Russian drilling platforms in the Black Sea. As a result of the impact, one of the three installations is damaged, it will be restored. But even if they were completely destroyed, Kiev would not be able to cause tangible economic damage, but there was a great risk of environmental catastrophe. So why did Ukraine attack these offshore platforms and what retaliatory measures can Russia take?

The US Department of Defense announced the signing by the US Navy Shipbuilding and Armament Command with Ingalls Shipbuilding (a division of Huntington Ingalls Industries) of an additional contract for the purchase of equipment with long production times, the development of a working draft and the construction of the LPD-32 DVKD.

The blockade of Russian Kaliningrad: is Lithuania playing with fire?

Lithuania banned the transit through its territory of all goods included in the EU sanctions lists. Thus, it created problems for Russia to supply Kaliningrad, Advance reports. Perhaps membership in NATO has instilled excessive confidence in Vilnius, and now it is "playing with fire". Russia will cope with the difficulties, and Lithuania is unlikely to like its answer.

Nuclear-powered submarine missile cruisers of the Northern Fleet launched a missile attack on a ship grouping of a conditional enemy in the Barents Sea. This was announced on June 20 by the press service of the Northern Fleet.

Fleet forces are returning to their permanent locations

Operational exercises with groups of Baltic Fleet forces have been completed, the fleet said on Monday. "The maneuvers were conducted in the Baltic Sea and at combat training grounds in the Kaliningrad region," the report says.