News of the fleet

The solemn launching of the serial small rocket ship of the project 21631 "Grad "will take place on September 17 at the JSC" Zelenodolsk Plant named after A.M. Gorky " in the Republic of Tatarstan.

The Russian military in Kamchatka conducted an exercise to eliminate the ships of a conditional enemy in the Pacific Ocean with missiles of the Bal coastal complex, the Pacific Fleet reported on Tuesday.

The servicemen of the Arctic motorized rifle brigade of the Northern Fleet (SF) have worked out a set of tasks for the defense of the territory of Russia in the conditions of the Far North and the Arctic, the press service of the SF reported on Tuesday.

Israeli anti-submarine warfare systems have found a customer in the East. Yesterday, on September 13, the press service of Elbit Systems announced the signing of a major contract "with the country's naval forces in the Asia-Pacific region".

The United States called the main problems of Russian carrier-based aircraft. The insufficient combat load of the Su-33 and the low flight range of the MiG-29K prevent them from becoming the main tools for projecting force. This is the conclusion reached by the authors of the 19FortyFive portal.

The Russian Northern Fleet conducted maneuvers in the Kola Arctic, near the borders with Norway and Finland, with the participation of more than 3 thousand servicemen and about 500 units of military equipment.

To counteract the Russian ships, "mine weapons" should be used, this was stated by the director of the Ukrainian NPC "Cleaver" Oksana Vrublevskaya.

The British company SubSea Craft launched the first prototype of the VICTA speedboat, which is able to dive under water and overcome some distance like a submarine. According to Janes, the tests are being conducted in Portsmouth, near the company's head office.

As part of the exercise with the Arctic expeditionary group, which is conducted under the leadership of the commander of the Northern Fleet of the Hero of Russia, Admiral Alexander Moiseev, the ship's search and strike group performed a number of anti-submarine tasks in the near sea zone.

The crews of the Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft of the Pacific Fleet (TOPF) during the exercises in Kamchatka worked out the destruction of a simulated enemy submarine. This was reported to journalists on Monday, September 13, in the press service of the TOPF.

The Australian Ministry of Defense has signed an acceptance certificate for the second of two AOR (auxiliary oiler and replacement ship) supply class transports ordered for the country's Navy.

The Industrial Development Fund and Sredne-Nevsky Shipbuilding Plant JSC (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) signed a loan agreement under the guarantee of USC JSC.

Serial production of the autonomous uninhabited underwater vehicle " Sarma "is planned to begin in 2024, said Alexander Vedrov, Deputy General Director of the Almaz-Antey concern for production and Technological Policy.

A ceremony of laying a mine defense ship was held at the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard (SNSZ, part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation).

The Royal Navy is preparing to defend its positions in the face of a numerical backlog. On September 12, the press service of the British Navy revealed some of the projects developed within the framework of the UK Naval Engineering Science and Technology (UKNEST) forum.

On September 9, 2021, at the Zhongzheng Naval Base of the Navy of the Republic of China (Taiwan) in Suao (Yilan County), in the presence of the President of the Republic of China Tsai Ing-wen, a ceremony was held to introduce the lead missile corvette-catamaran "Tajiang" of the improved Tuo Jiang II project (tail number 619) into the Taiwanese Navy.

The strategic command and staff military exercises of a defensive nature "United Efforts-2021" will be held from September 22 to 30 at all the main military training grounds of Ukraine, as well as in the waters of the Black and Azov Seas, the commander-in-chief of the Ukrainian armed forces Valery Zaluzhny said.

By order of the Russian government, part of the water area of the Sevastopol Bay of the Black Sea in the south-west of Crimea was transferred to the use of the Russian Defense Ministry for a period of 20 years.

The Navy of the Republic of China received the first corvette catamaran of the Tuo Jiang II project. A total of 11 such ships should be built. Taiwan is seriously concerned about the growing power of the Chinese Navy. One of the efforts to neutralize the threat was the Tuo Jiang II missile corvette-catamaran project.

The area of the missile firing was previously closed to civilian shipping and aviation flights

Calculations of the coastal missile systems (DBK) "Bal" and the destroyer "Fyodor Ushakov" destroyed groups of ships of the conditional enemy at a distance of more than 100 km from the coast in the Barents Sea during exercises in the Arctic. This was reported to journalists on Saturday in the press service of the Northern Fleet.