News of the fleet

The crews of the Rostov-on-Don and Veliky Novgorod submarines practiced striking with Kalibr-PL missiles during the exercise

The crews of submarines of the Black Sea Fleet during the exercises worked out a missile strike on a detachment of ships of a conditional enemy, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Wednesday.

The state shipbuilding company SIMA (Servicios Industriales de la Marina) plans to launch a second amphibious helicopter ship-dock (DVKD) "Paita" (Paita) class "Makassar" (Makassar) in the middle of 2022.

During the exercises, the crews of the Rostov-on-Don and Veliky Novgorod submarines practiced striking with Kalibr-PL missiles at a detachment of ships of a conditional enemy.

The third US Navy ship headed for the Black Sea.

The US Navy posted on Twitter a photo of the tanker tanker John Lenthall going to the Black Sea to join a joint operation with NATO allies. This is the third American ship following this course. Earlier, the command ship of the Sixth Fleet of the US Navy Mount Whitne and the destroyer Porter entered the Black Sea.

The visits of US Navy ships to the Black Sea are becoming a demonstration of NATO's strength, flag and ability for a military conflict with Moscow. Igor Korotchenko, the editor-in-chief of the National Defense magazine, told REN TV about this on November 3, commenting on the data that the third US warship is heading to the Black Sea.

The exercises took place near the Crimean Peninsula, up to 10 aircraft participated in the maneuvers

The crews of the aircraft of the Black Sea Fleet, together with the calculations of coastal missile systems, worked out strikes on a sea target during the exercises, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Wednesday.

The American Navy will soon receive the twelfth San Antonio-class amphibious assault ship. On November 2, the press service of Huntington Ingalls Industries announced the successful completion of the first stage of sea trials of the Fort Lauderdale ship (LPD 28).

The Command of the US Coast Guard announced the ceremony of commissioning a new fast patrol boat FRC (Fast Response Cutter) of the Sentinel class – (WPC 1145) "Emlen Tunnell" (Emlen Tunnell), which took place in Philadelphia.

Three submarines of the Northern Fleet conducted practical torpedo firing in the Barents Sea, including an underwater duel, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported.

Chinese military blogs reported on successful ground tests of electromagnetic catapults created for the third aircraft carrier of the People's Republic of China.

The fate of Naval Aviation of the Navy is being publicly discussed at the highest level for the first time. Why is the service of naval pilots extremely important for the defense capability of Russia, what is the state of Naval aviation today – and what needs to be done to revive it?

Engaged in the implementation of large-scale projects in the field of nuclear technology, General Atomics (San Diego, California) has created a giant magnet for the largest thermonuclear reactor in history – ITER, which will begin operation in 2023 in the south of France.

The US Navy plans to equip the Zumwalt destroyers with hypersonic glider missiles. According to Naval News, they will replace 155-millimeter guns that have never fired. The first "Zumwalt" will begin to be refitted in fiscal year 2024.

The United States decided to dismantle the 155-millimeter guns in the bow of the Zumwalt, installing vertical shafts with hypersonic missiles in their place.The US plans to equip the "scandalous" Zumwalt-type stealth destroyers with hypersonic weapons are becoming more and more specific.

It is very difficult to detect a diesel-electric submarine like the Russian project 636 submarine of the Varshavyanka type because of the nature of its acoustic signature or even the absence of such a signature, Kevin Noonan, a veteran of the US Navy (Navy), writes in the American edition of The Drive.

The ships also conducted artillery firing on the sea towed shield

Crews of large amphibious ships of the Pacific Fleet conducted artillery firing in the Sea of Okhotsk, destroying an "enemy" command post on the shore and floating sea mines, the press service of the fleet reported on Tuesday.

Fincantieri has announced the transfer to the Qatar Defense Ministry of the Doha-class lead corvette, Al-Zubarah, ordered as part of the national modernization program of the Qatari fleet.

The Russian R-30 Bulava-30 sea-based ballistic missile, which encountered numerous difficulties during the tests, is inferior to its Western counterparts in a number of characteristics. Criticism of Russian weapons was published by the American magazine The National Interest.

According to the document, the ship's charter will be a separate special regulatory legal act, including in relation to general military charters

The Government of the Russian Federation has submitted to the State Duma a bill providing for the empowerment of the President of the Russian Federation to approve the Ship Charter of the Russian Navy. The document was posted on Tuesday in the Duma electronic database.

A new corvette has been built for the Pacific Fleet. On November 1, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation announced that the first sea trials of the new Sharp corvette will be held on November 2 and 3.