News of the fleet

The Italians launched the Giovanni delle Bande Nere Pattugliatore Polivalente d'altura (PPA) type ship. He became the fourth representative of this project and the first in an improved version.

The maneuvers were conducted in preparation for major naval exercises under the overall leadership of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy

Pilots of a separate mixed aviation regiment of naval aviation and crews of anti-submarine ships of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) conducted joint exercises in the Black Sea to search and track a submarine of a conditional enemy, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Monday.

Military exercises in the Crimea and in the Krasnodar Territory have worked out the deployment of coastal anti-ship complexes "Bastion" with conditional (electronic) launches of cruise missiles, the Black Sea Fleet said on Friday.

A detachment of warships of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) in the framework of exercises in the Sea of Okhotsk fired artillery at the ships of the "enemy", reports the Pacific Fleet.

Expert Litovkin admitted that the ship "Guardian" will receive hypersonic missiles "Zircon"

The Russian submerging patrol ship "Sentinel", being developed by the Central Design Bureau of Marine Technology (CCB MT) "Rubin", can receive hypersonic missiles "Zircon", the editor-in-chief of the "Independent Military Review" Dmitry Litovkin told TASS.

A new Chinese diesel-electric submarine was caught on video. And now experts, studying the new frames, think to which class she belongs.

The state-owned Indonesian shipbuilding company PT PAL Indonesia and the French Naval Group signed a memorandum of understanding on the construction of submarines and research programs in the field of underwater shipbuilding.

The newest A-100 Premier long-range radar surveillance and guidance aircraft will significantly expand the capabilities of the Russian Aerospace Forces. The flying radar built in Taganrog has already tested radio equipment in flight.

Military expert Yuri Knutov commented on the exercises in Crimea with the use of Bastion coastal missile systems on Sputnik radio.

According to information published on February 8 on the official Twitter page of Goa Shipyard Ltd, a patrol ship of the coastal zone of the Sankalp class of the third batch (Batch III) was transferred to the command of the Indian Coast Guard ahead of schedule.

In addition, three Il-38 and one Il-38N anti-submarine aircraft were used to work out a joint search for a "foreign" submarine

TASS, February 12. Il-38 aircraft of the Naval Aviation of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) carried out the laying of minefields during the exercises. This was reported to journalists in the press service of the fleet.

Russia and the United States will take part in India's largest naval exercises at the end of February. "Sources in the Ministry of Defense reported that both Russia and the United States confirmed their participation in the Milan 2022 exercises, which will be held from February 26 to March 4," the material says.

In February of this year, an unknown Chinese diesel-electric submarine got into the lenses of observers. According to the China Times information portal, most experts agree that this is a small submarine intended for export.

Two weeks ago, reporting on the wires of the nuclear submarine "Prince Oleg" from Sevmash, where it was built, to a temporary base on the Kola Peninsula, we wrote: went north to go east.

On Saturday, February 12, at 10.40 Moscow time, a US Navy submarine of the Virginia type was discovered in the area of a planned exercise of the Pacific Fleet forces in the territorial waters of the Russian Federation near the island of Urup in the Kuril Ridge. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Ministry of Defense handed a note to the US military attache due to the violation of the state borders of the Russian Federation by an American submarine. This was reported on Saturday, February 12, in the Russian department.

On February 12, in the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, in connection with the violation of the state border of the Russian Federation by a US Navy submarine, a representative of the office of the military attache for Defense Issues at the Embassy of the United States of America in Moscow was handed a note. This was reported on Saturday evening in our military department.

The location of the appearance of the American Virginia-class submarine near the Kuril Islands is not easy, military expert Dmitry Boltenkov told Izvestia on February 12.

This is not the first incident at sea between the military of the Russian Federation and NATO

The appearance of an American nuclear submarine in the territorial waters of the Russian Federation in the Kuril region, which was discovered by a Russian warship, is a serious military incident, retired Admiral Viktor Kravchenko, former chief of the General Staff of the Russian Navy, told Interfax on Saturday.

According to Dmitry Litovkin, editor-in-chief of the Independent Military Review, the Americans were well aware that anti-submarine weapons could be used against them in Russian territorial waters, including the most modern anti-submarine complex "Answer".