News of the fleet

The shooting took place during large-scale exercises of the district

Calculations of small rocket and artillery ships of the Caspian Flotilla (CFL) hit targets from guns simulating ships of a conditional enemy and a marine landing, the press service of the Southern Military District (SE) reported. The shooting took place during large-scale exercises of the district.

As part of the state tests, a successful launch of the Bulava ballistic missile from the Knyaz Oleg nuclear submarine from the White Sea was carried out. This was announced on October 21 by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

On the instructions of the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, specialists of the Research Institute of Rescue and Underwater Technologies of the VUNC of the Navy took part in tests of a modernized steel ship-lifting pontoon with a lifting capacity of 200 tons of Project 528 (SSP-200), held in Sevastopol.

The United States assessed the capabilities of the Russian Arctic transport refrigerator "Ivan Papanin", which will be able to carry Kalibr cruise missiles. The publication 19FortyFive called the ship a sign of the transformation of the Arctic into a battlefield.

The strategic missile submarine "Prince Oleg" fired a ballistic missile "Bulava" from the waters of the White Sea. On the air of Sputnik radio, military expert Viktor Litovkin commented on the tests.

The Royal Navy of Great Britain has put up for sale an auxiliary vessel Argus - the only one of its kind.

Until 1981, the ship built in Italy was a peaceful container ship MV Contender Bezant. On the eve of the Falklands War, it was mobilized and converted into a floating hospital. Then Bezant was returned to the owners, but due to the decline in shipping, the container ship turned out to be not the lot and in 1984 the British Admiralty finally acquired the 190-meter ship.

The Peruvian Navy conducted the first live firing exercises using MM-40 Exocet Block-3 Surface-to-surface and AM-39 Exocet air-to-surface missiles developed by MBDA Group.

In North Korea, work continues on the creation of ballistic missiles for submarines (SLBMs). Last Thursday, it became known about the conduct of new tests of such weapons.

According to military expert Yuri Lyamin, currently only one diesel-electric submarine of the DPRK, which is a carrier of ballistic missiles, is known. This submarine was built in 2014. It was named "8.24 Engun" ("Heroes of August 24th"). In the West, it was designated as Sinpo-B or type Gorae.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation posted on social networks a video taken at the time of the launch of the Bulava ballistic missile from the strategic submarine Prince Oleg. Earlier on Thursday, the agency reported that the launch was carried out as part of state tests of the carrier of the latest naval ammunition.

In the Nizhny Novgorod region, a special vessel of the project 14400 was launched, which is sometimes called a "training helicopter carrier". It is intended for the training of crews of deck rotorcraft.

The DPRK confirmed that on October 19 it successfully tested a new submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM), Yonhap news agency reports, citing the Korean Central Telegraph Agency (KCNA).

In 2021-2022, the Russian Navy will receive three small rocket ships of the project 22800 "Karakurt".They will be armed with a universal ship firing complex "Kalibr-NK", "Onyx" with eight cruise missiles.

North Korea has successfully tested a new ballistic missile by launching it from a submarine under water. On the presented frames, you can examine the tests in detail.

At the current level of development of hypersonic weapons, the United States has every chance to lose in a possible fight with Russia and China. After years of warnings from military experts, the Pentagon is now spending over a billion dollars annually to catch up.

The French shipbuilding company OCEA announced its victory in an international tender for the supply of a 35-meter hydrographic vessel of the OSV-115 SC-WB class for the Nigerian Navy.

Americans continue to "brag" about their giant ships. Following the video, which shows life on aircraft carriers, NBC showed the features of American amphibious ships and the nuances of service on them.

The NATO bloc holds annual exercises "Steadfast Noon" (Steadfast Noon), which began on October 18, during which a nuclear war scenario will be worked out. 14 European countries, including Germany, are taking part in them. Dozens of aircraft are involved, including nuclear-armed fighters, combat aircraft, as well as tankers and reconnaissance aircraft, the Swiss Telegraph Agency (SDA) reports.

The United States will commission a second missile defense (ABM) base in Europe, the creation of which is being completed in northern Poland near the village of Redzikovo, 165 km from the Russian border, in the coming months, according to data from the US Defense Defense Agency.

In 2022, all major decisions should be made, including projects for the integrated development of the territory of the city of Kaspiysk, where the flotilla will be located

The creation of the main infrastructure for the deployment of the Caspian Flotilla in Dagestan is planned to be completed by the end of 2022, the head of the republic Sergey Melikov said at a meeting with journalists of the federal media.

The United States is capable of sending up to six thousand high-precision subsonic Tomahawk cruise missiles with conventional and nuclear warheads to the target in just one salvo, writes TASS military columnist Dmitry Litovkin. The author called this circumstance causing an impenetrable headache for Russia.