News of the fleet

In addition, three Il-38 and one Il-38N anti-submarine aircraft were used to work out a joint search for a "foreign" submarine

TASS, February 12. Il-38 aircraft of the Naval Aviation of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) carried out the laying of minefields during the exercises. This was reported to journalists in the press service of the fleet.

Russia and the United States will take part in India's largest naval exercises at the end of February. "Sources in the Ministry of Defense reported that both Russia and the United States confirmed their participation in the Milan 2022 exercises, which will be held from February 26 to March 4," the material says.

In February of this year, an unknown Chinese diesel-electric submarine got into the lenses of observers. According to the China Times information portal, most experts agree that this is a small submarine intended for export.

Two weeks ago, reporting on the wires of the nuclear submarine "Prince Oleg" from Sevmash, where it was built, to a temporary base on the Kola Peninsula, we wrote: went north to go east.

On Saturday, February 12, at 10.40 Moscow time, a US Navy submarine of the Virginia type was discovered in the area of a planned exercise of the Pacific Fleet forces in the territorial waters of the Russian Federation near the island of Urup in the Kuril Ridge. This was reported by the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Ministry of Defense handed a note to the US military attache due to the violation of the state borders of the Russian Federation by an American submarine. This was reported on Saturday, February 12, in the Russian department.

On February 12, in the Main Directorate of International Military Cooperation of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, in connection with the violation of the state border of the Russian Federation by a US Navy submarine, a representative of the office of the military attache for Defense Issues at the Embassy of the United States of America in Moscow was handed a note. This was reported on Saturday evening in our military department.

The location of the appearance of the American Virginia-class submarine near the Kuril Islands is not easy, military expert Dmitry Boltenkov told Izvestia on February 12.

This is not the first incident at sea between the military of the Russian Federation and NATO

The appearance of an American nuclear submarine in the territorial waters of the Russian Federation in the Kuril region, which was discovered by a Russian warship, is a serious military incident, retired Admiral Viktor Kravchenko, former chief of the General Staff of the Russian Navy, told Interfax on Saturday.

According to Dmitry Litovkin, editor-in-chief of the Independent Military Review, the Americans were well aware that anti-submarine weapons could be used against them in Russian territorial waters, including the most modern anti-submarine complex "Answer".

American submarines have not conducted operations in Russian territorial waters, said Kyle Raines, a representative of the US Indo-Pacific Command.

According to the interlocutor of the agency, the coordinates of the submarine were transferred to a detachment of warships led by the frigate of the Pacific Fleet "Marshal Shaposhnikov"

A nuclear submarine of the US Navy of the Virginia type was discovered in the territorial waters of the Russian Federation in the Kuril area by Il-38 anti-submarine aircraft and one of the submarines of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet) during planned exercises to search for a submarine of a conditional enemy. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the naval sphere.

In the incident with the US Navy nuclear submarine off the Kuril island of Urup, the frigate of the Pacific Fleet Marshal Shaposhnikov performed the role of a sentry: he informed the violator that he had been detected, and when he pretended not to hear, the Russian sailors presented convincing evidence.

The Rostov-on-Don submarine, which is the carrier of Kalibr cruise missiles, passed through the Bosphorus from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea on Sunday, follows from the data of the Anadolu agency and Istanbul information sites publishing photos of its passage through the strait.

Russia's intelligence operation demonstrated to the United States that the Russian military can easily find American submarines. Realizing this, the Americans simply fled. This was stated on Sunday, February 13, by a military expert, captain of the third rank of the reserve Dmitry Litovkin in an interview with Izvestia.

The Russian frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov worked in the incident with the American submarine off the Kuril Islands like a sentry, military expert, captain of the third rank of the reserve Dmitry Litovkin said in an interview with the Zvezda TV channel.

In December of this year, the Northern Fleet will replenish the newest frigate of project 22350 "Admiral Golovko". He will become the first full-time carrier of the Zircon hypersonic system.

Specialists of the Military Construction Complex of the Ministry of Defense of Russia have completed the construction of a new berth at the base of the submarine forces of the Pacific Fleet in Cape Cossack of the Kamchatka Territory, the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation reported on Thursday.

The Command of the US Navy announced the commissioning ceremony of a new coastal zone warship of the Independence class, LCS-28 Savannah, held on February 5 in Brunswick (Georgia).

Six large amphibious ships of the Northern and Baltic fleets, including the newest "Peter Morgunov", entered the naval base of Sevastopol after a long hike, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) told reporters.