News of the fleet

Hypersonic missiles "Zircon" will be included in the arsenal of submarines of the Russian Navy in 2025. - The state tests of the Zircon for nuclear submarines will be completed approximately in 2025. The first full-time rocket carrier, the Perm nuclear submarine, will participate in them. At the same time, according to the plan, the boat, along with the missiles, will enter service with the Russian Navy," a source told TASS.

The American Navy is learning to work with the MQ-25A Stingray unmanned tanker. On December 3, the press service of the US Navy Aviation Systems Command (NAVAIR) announced that the first prototype of the "flying canister" was delivered to the deck of the aircraft carrier USS George HW Bush (CVN-77).

In the French city of Concarneau, a head minesweeper developed under the Mine Counter Measures program was laid. In total, twelve such ships will be built: six each for the Netherlands and Belgium.

The Russian autonomous underwater nuclear system Poseidon will become an effective tool that Moscow can use during negotiations with the United States. This is written by military expert Brent Eastwood in the publication 19FortyFive.

South Korea will have its own aircraft carrier. December 4, portal navalnews.com He reported that after a heated debate in parliament, the project to build a CVX project ship received funding.

The POLARIS 21 exercises of six NATO member countries ended in the Mediterranean Sea area, becoming one of the largest naval maneuvers in history, The Guardian reported on Sunday.

The Russian Navy will receive new submarines by the end of the year. Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu announced on Wednesday, December 1, that the Navy will transfer the submarines "Prince Oleg" of project 955A and "Novosibirsk" of project 885M. This is reported by the Izvestia newspaper.

The refusal of the United States, Great Britain and Australia to provide detailed information about the AUKUS union is not normal, said Mikhail Ulyanov, Russia's permanent representative to international organizations in Vienna.

The opening ceremony of the first joint naval exercises of Russia and the countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) ARNEX-2021 was held at the naval base in the port of Belavan (Indonesia), the Pacific Fleet reported on Thursday.

The large anti-submarine ship (BOD) of the Pacific Fleet Admiral Panteleev has arrived in Indonesia to participate in the first joint naval exercise of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) and the Russian Navy ARNEX-2021, the Information Support Department of the Pacific Fleet reported on December 2.

The squadron of ships of the Russian Navy includes the frigate Admiral Grigorovich with a deck helicopter on board, the patrol ship Dmitry Rogachev and the rescue tug SB-742

A detachment of ships of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) will take part in the Russian-Egyptian naval exercises "Friendship Bridge - 2021", for which Russian ships will enter the port of Alexandria on December 3, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Thursday.

A detachment of ships of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) is completing the transition to the Egyptian port of Alexandria to participate in the joint Russian-Egyptian naval exercises "Friendship Bridge-2021", the press service of the fleet told reporters on Thursday.

The Australian Navy has completed the procedure for transferring two Adelaide-class air defense frigates to the Chilean Navy, FFG-11 Captain Prat (formerly named FFG-06 Newcastle) and FFG-14 Almirante Latorre (formerly FFG-05 Melbourne) under the contract from 2019.

A solid line of defense is being created on the southern Kuril Islands. On Thursday, December 2, military historian Dmitry Boltenkov told Izvestia, commenting on the assumption of duty of calculations of the Bastion coastal missile system.

Russia will not allow a significant superiority of the Naval forces of other states over the Navy of the Russian Federation, especially in the light of the American concept of a "global strike", said the chief adviser to the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), Commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy (2012-2016), Admiral Viktor Chirkov.

The appearance of calculations of the Bastion coastal missile system (DBK) in the Kuril Islands became possible after Russian specialists managed to solve problems with the water supply of the military camp. This explanation was given by journalist Alexander Kotz in his Telegram channel.

Bastion coastal missile systems on the Kuril island of Matua will provide protection of Russian waters. This is reported by the Zvezda TV channel with reference to military expert Viktor Litovkin.

Russia has the right to deploy military facilities in those areas of the country where it considers it appropriate. This was announced on December 2 by the press secretary of the President of the Russian Federation Dmitry Peskov, commenting to journalists on the deployment of new military facilities on the Kuril Islands.

The program of sea trials of the main universal nuclear icebreaker project 22220 "Arctic", built at the Baltic Plant (part of the USC), has been completed.

On Thursday, December 2, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu presented state awards, honorary regimental and ship cups to the best military formations, medical and educational organizations of the Armed Forces.