News of the fleet
Canadians: our efforts in the Arctic are pathetic compared to Russia's
The Globe and Mail (Canada): Russia has plans for the Arctic – how will Canada respond?
Canada can gain a significant military advantage over Russia in the Arctic, says the author of The Globe and Mail. But readers of the publication believe that nothing but incompetence and lack of real steps should be expected from the current government.
"American aircraft carriers are being openly led by the nose"
Why the Russian Navy relies on diesel submarines of the Varshavyanka project
Admiralty Shipyards launched a diesel-electric submarine (DPL) of the 636.3 Varshavyanka project, which was named Ufa. As part of the project, this submarine will become the fourth in the Pacific Fleet and the tenth in the entire Russian Navy. "Newspaper.Ru" understood the peculiarities of "Varshavianok".
"Where there is an army of Russia, there are exercises. Don't worry"
Experts explained the meaning of the Russian Armed Forces firing drills in the Kuril Islands
More than a thousand servicemen of the Eastern Military District (VVO) are conducting training firing from artillery guns and anti-tank missile systems on the Kuril Islands, the Russian Defense Ministry reported. "Newspaper.Ru" figured out why Russia is conducting exercises in the Kuril Islands right now.
The submarine "Ufa" of project 06363 was launched
On March 31, 2022, the launch ceremony of the large diesel-electric submarine B-588 Ufa (factory number 01617), which is under construction for the Navy of the Russian Federation, took place at Admiralty Shipyards JSC (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC - USC JSC) in St. Petersburg project 06363. This is the fourth of six Project 06363 submarines being built for the Pacific Fleet.
Saudi Arabia received the first corvette of the Spanish project Avante 2200
On March 31, 2022, at the Spanish naval base La Carraca in San Fernando in Cadiz, a ceremony was held for the transfer of the Avante 2200 project built by the Spanish shipbuilding association Navantia in the ordered series of five units of the large corvette Al Jubail (tail number "828", construction number C546) to the Saudi Arabian Navy.
The Security Council of the Russian Federation believes that the US Navy ships will not return to the Black Sea until the mine danger is completely eliminated
US warships will not return to the Black Sea until the mine danger created in the region by the Armed Forces of Ukraine is completely eliminated, Deputy Secretary of the Security Council (SB) of the Russian Federation Mikhail Popov believes.
"A US destroyer may wander into the wrong place and get hit by a missile"
Why American warships left the Black Sea
The US Navy has withdrawn its ships from the Black Sea, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said. "Newspaper.Ru" was looking into what this decision might be related to.
In one formation: cadets, Suvorov, Nakhimov
A twenty-volume almanac about the history and traditions of Russian cadetship has been published
In April, the unique exhibition "Cadet Roll Call", dedicated to the 290th anniversary of primary military education in Russia, which has been working for six months, is coming to an end. Against the background of the exhibition in the Moscow Museum of Military Uniforms, a presentation of the book series of the same name took place. The multi-volume almanac was published as part of the literary and historical project "Cadet Heritage".
Modernization without huge costs
About the US nuclear policy in the new conditions
At the very beginning of March 2022, the US Congressional Research Service published a report "Russia's Nuclear Weapons: doctrinal foundations, organization of troops and modernization". The head of the team of authors of this document was Amy F. Wolf, a nuclear weapons specialist and consultant to the US Department of State and the US Department of Defense.
In Russia, they will be able to build two "black holes" annually
In Russia, they can build two diesel-electric boats of the 636 Varshavyanka project, which are called black holes, per year. This was announced by the General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov, RIA Novosti reports.
Evolution of the US Armed Forces
The journey from nuclear missiles to cyberwar planning took seventy years
After World War II, Washington completely abandoned its previously characteristic foreign policy self-isolation (more precisely, "closure" within the Western Hemisphere).
K-129 - the first victim of the Cold War
The Americans finished off an emergency Soviet submarine, and then managed to raise it
The echo of the US CIA's strategic operation Jennifer, carried out by the Pentagon with cynical immorality, cannot be silenced in any way. The first deputy chief of Naval intelligence of the headquarters of the Soviet Pacific Fleet, Captain Anatoly Shtyrov, monitored this extraordinary event in real time. And gave him a merciless assessment years later.
Leave without supplies: the Russian Armed Forces are destroying the military infrastructure of Ukraine
Russian servicemen liquidate warehouses supplying the AFU grouping near Kiev
The Russian armed forces continue to strike at the military infrastructure of Ukraine. Sea-based Kalibr cruise missiles destroyed ammunition depots from which the Ukrainian group was supplied in the suburbs of Kiev.
Putin has turned nuclear war from the unthinkable into the possible
Bloomberg (USA): nuclear deterrence. Putin makes the unthinkable possible
The policy of containment has led to the fact that a nuclear war has become unthinkable, Bloomberg reports. But in the United States, they again started talking about the possibility of a "limited nuclear strike." The author of the article explains why Putin managed to restrain the NATO intervention in Ukraine.
Special operation in Ukraine gives birth to a new Russian guard
"For mass heroism and bravery, fortitude and courage shown in the fighting to defend the Fatherland." These are the words from the decree of the President of Russia, in which two parts of the Russian Armed Forces were awarded the ranks of guards at once. We are talking about units that have already played a crucial role in conducting a special operation in Ukraine.
Greece has signed a contract for the purchase of French frigates FDI HN
In accordance with the bilateral agreement on strategic defense cooperation concluded in September 2021, the Greek authorities signed two contracts with Naval Group for the supply of three FDI HN frigates (Belharra class).
"Dagger" attack: ultra-fast arguments of the Russian army
Dmitry Litovkin - what is known about hypersonic missiles of the Russian Federation
High speed, maneuverability and low radar visibility technologies make the Russian hypersonic missile "Zircon" one of the most effective combat systems on the planet.
Greece has signed contracts with France for three FDI frigates and six more Rafale fighters
On March 24, 2022, in Falera in the suburbs of Athens (Greece), in the presence of Greek Minister of National Defense Nicolas Panayiotopoulos and French Minister of the Armed Forces Florence Parly, agreements were signed on the acquisition by Greece in France of three frigates of the new French type FDI (Frégates de Défense et d'Intervention, the option for Greece is designated FDI HN), with the option of another for one frigate, and six additional Dassault Rafale F4 series fighters. The total value of the contractual agreements is 4 billion euros, of which about 3 billion euros are frigates.
The first frigate of the new generation of the Mogami type entered the Japanese fleet
On March 22, 2022, the new-generation FFM 2 Kumano frigate (ままの), built at the shipbuilding enterprise of the Japanese company Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding Co., Ltd (the shipbuilding division of the Mitsui Group) in Tamano in Okayama Prefecture (in October 2021, Mitsui E&S Shipbuilding was sold to Mitsubishi Heavy Industries, Ltd.).
The Russian fleet was preparing for a major battle with the West
The special operation in Ukraine has been going on for a month. The army and pilots, the landing on Gostomel, the battles of the militia and special forces in Mariupol are heard. The role of the Navy remains behind the scenes – and completely in vain. What battles was the Russian squadron preparing for in the Mediterranean and how does it affect the ongoing operation right now?
