News of the fleet

The Chinese are learning to sink American ships. On November 7, information appeared on the website of the Naval Institute of the US Navy that models of an American aircraft carrier and destroyers appeared in the Taklamakan Desert (Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region).

A solemn naming ceremony and launching of the frigate Tushil took place at the Baltic shipyard "Yantar" in Kaliningrad. This is the first of two ships of Project 11356 being built at the plant by order of India.

Washington will transfer two Island-type coast Guard speedboats to Kiev, the American Embassy in Ukraine reported.

The British Navy risks being left without relatively cheap anti-ship missiles. November 7, portal ukdefencejournal.org.uk He reported that the British Navy had abandoned the previously announced plan to purchase "temporary" missiles.

The contract for the supply of new Zircon hypersonic missiles to the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation is of a long-term nature, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The frigate of the Northern Fleet "Admiral Gorshkov" made the transition to the White Sea as part of the program of testing modern naval weapons, the press service of the fleet reported on Monday.

The Montreux Convention on the Black Sea is not subject to revision, the strengthening of the US and NATO military presence in the Black Sea region is unacceptable, Mikhail Sheremet, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Crimean region, told RIA Novosti.

Three officers of the American nuclear submarine USS Connecticut (SSN 22), which collided with a seamount in the South China Sea, were removed from their posts on Thursday, November 4, after the investigation was completed due to loss of confidence. This is reported by USNI News with reference to the statement of the American navy.

The United States is "woefully far behind" Russia and China in terms of the size of the icebreaker fleet. US Secretary of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas complained about the lack of icebreakers, TASS reports.

The US Navy has transferred the equipping of Zumwalt-type stealth destroyers with medium-range hypersonic missiles. American sailors will receive the first ship with new weapons no earlier than fiscal year 2025. This is reported by The Drive.

At the end of the day on November 4, with reference to the top officials in the command of the US Navy, two messages came about the causes of the emergency with the American nuclear submarine USS Connecticut in the South China Sea and about who and what responsibility was incurred for what happened.

On November 5, 1976, the missile cruiser "Moscow" was laid down, then it was called "Glory". This is the lead ship of Project 1164 "Atlant". After the decommissioning of the Project 1123 anti-submarine cruiser Moskva, the ship inherited his name.

In the Pacific Fleet in 2021, according to the results of combat training, 27 military units were awarded the honorary name "Shock".

The next documentary "Görünməyən qəhrəmanlar - Dəniz pişikləri" ("Invisible Heroes - Naval Special Forces"), shown by the Azerbaijani Public Television ITV, dedicated to the participation of the special operations forces of the Azerbaijani Navy in the Second Karabakh War in the autumn of 2020, contains interesting details of the active involvement of Azerbaijani naval special forces in the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh. We thank Mammad Valimamedov for the link and presentation of the translation of fragments of the film.

The surface component of the Pacific Fleet will be replenished by 2027 with 12 corvettes of projects 20385 and 20380, said the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, quoted by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

A detachment of ships and vessels of the Northern Fleet led by the large anti-submarine ship (BOD) "Vice Admiral Kulakov" made a business call at the port of Praia - the capital of the island republic of Cape Verde, which is located in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported.

The US Navy ships that entered the Black Sea conducted joint exercises with the Bulgarian frigate "Gordi", the 6th Operational Fleet of the United States reported.

The Pacific Fleet headquarters summed up the results of combat training in the past academic year. It, we recall, in the Armed Forces begins in December, and ends in October.

It is reported that the largest event at the Pacific Fleet was an operational exercise in the Central Pacific Ocean - the first in the recent history of the fleet. There, the command involved more than 20 warships, submarines and vessels, as well as aircraft and helicopters of naval aviation. In two months, the detachment of ships overcame more than 20 thousand nautical miles and performed about fifty combat exercises.

A detachment of ships of the Russian Navy consisting of the corvette "Gremyashchy", the submarines "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky" and "Volkhov", performing the transition from the Baltic to the place of permanent deployment to the Pacific Fleet, passed the Singapore Strait, the Alert 5 Twitter account, which publishes photos of the ships, reported.

The new Russian small rocket ship Cyclone will undergo sea trials and weapons preparation for test firing in the Black Sea in mid-November, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.