News of the fleet

According to a TASS source, the helicopter carrier will become the flagship of the Russian Black Sea Fleet

The newest universal landing ship-helicopter carrier of the project 23900 "Mitrofan Moskalenko" after completion of construction at the Kerch shipyard "Gulf" will become the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet, infrastructure is being prepared for its basing in Sevastopol. This was reported to TASS by a source in the naval sphere.

The Russian Defense Ministry plans to create a new association of the Navy - the Arctic Fleet. Its task will be to ensure the security of the Northern Sea Route and the Arctic region as a whole.

The problem of protecting our Arctic borders is becoming more acute every year. The Ministry of Defense is strengthening the cover of the Arctic region by commissioning military bases that have no analogues in the world and sending the most modern weapons there.

Formations of the Pacific Fleet Marine Corps (Pacific Fleet) have completed a planned bilateral brigade tactical exercise (DBRTU) with a live firing stage in Primorsky Krai. This was reported in the press service of the Ministry of Defense of Russia on Friday, October 8.

Combat crews of anti-ship missile complexes "BAL" and "Bastion" from the missile and artillery formations of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) during the exercises destroyed a landing party of ships of a conditional enemy in the Black Sea, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet reports.

The American company Eastern Shipbuilding Group has announced that steel cutting has begun at its enterprise in Panama City (Florida) to build the third patrol boat (WMSM-917) "Ingham" (Ingham) of the OPC (Offshore Patrol Cutter) project for the US Coast Guard.

The American Navy has parted with the last non-nuclear aircraft carriers. October 7, portal thedrive.com He reported that the US Navy sold the ships USS Kitty Hawk and USS John F. Kennedy.

During the large-scale exercises of two brigades of the Pacific Fleet marines, rocket-propelled mine-clearing installations, nicknamed "Snakes of the Mountain" in the troops, were involved. Mounted on boats, they successfully cleared the offensive paths for attacking black berets.

The universal amphibious helicopter carrier ship Mitrofan Moskalenko will become the flagship of the Black Sea Fleet. The location of the project 23900 ship is already being prepared in Sevastopol. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source.

About 100 Russian ships and support vessels are performing tasks in the World Ocean, said Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, Commander-in-chief of the Navy. On the air of Sputnik radio, retired Colonel Viktor Litovkin commented on these data.

The commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, noted that the current generation of Russian ship commanders carries the naval flag with honor and dignity in the vastness of the World Ocean

About a hundred ships and vessels of the Navy are currently involved in solving problems in the far sea and ocean zones. This is stated in the message of the information support service of the Main Command of the Russian Navy.

The Government of the Russian Federation plans to transfer state-owned shipbuilding assets to the authorized capital of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) in October 2022. The corresponding decree of the President of the Russian Federation is posted on the official Internet portal of legal information.

According to a TASS source, one missile will hit the Kura test site in Kamchatka

The strategic nuclear submarine missile cruiser "Prince Oleg" of project 955A (code "Borey-A") will launch an intercontinental ballistic missile "BULAVA" on state tests in November 2021. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

Landing from airplanes and helicopters is practiced in the Kaliningrad region by more than 250 military personnel of the airborne assault and reconnaissance amphibious battalions of the Army Corps and the Marine Corps of the Baltic Fleet (BF).

The US nuclear submarine USN-22 Connecticut, which was injured in a collision with an unknown object, returned to its base on the island of Guam.

An assessment of its damage has begun, but it has already been announced that the reactor was not damaged. The incident, as a result of which 11 sailors were injured, occurred during the largest international exercises in the Asia-Pacific region with the participation of four US aircraft carriers and their allies. 

It is expected that the training of the regiment's pilots at the NITKA complex will last more than a month

Deck-based multi-purpose MiG-29K/KUB fighters of the 100th separate Naval Fighter Aviation Regiment of the Northern Fleet (SF) performed a flight to an aircraft carrier analog - the ground test training complex (aviation) NITKA in Saki. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the power structures of the Crimea.

On October 5, 2021, the South Korean corporation Hyundai Heavy Industries (HHI) at its shipyard in Ulsan held an official ceremony of laying and installing the first section of the head of three large "Aegis" destroyers of the KDX-III project of the second series (Batch-II) ordered for the South Korean Navy. The actual construction of this destroyer was started with the ceremony of the first steel cutting in Ulsan on February 16, 2021. The ship should be launched in the second half of 2022 and handed over to the South Korean navy by November 2024.

The Polish consortium Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa (PGZ) has signed an agreement for the development and supply of a short-range anti-aircraft missile system codenamed Narew. According to Breaking Defense, almost all of its components will be Polish, with the exception of interceptors and launchers. Poles will buy them from a foreign partner, whom they have not yet chosen.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation plans to conduct another test launch of the newest hypersonic missile "Zircon" by the end of the year. Most likely, for the first time, a volley firing of "ZIRCONS" will be carried out from the frigate Admiral Nakhimov.

FAR EAST - Missile firing will be conducted by the vAryag missile cruiser and the large anti-submarine ship Admiral Tributs in the Sea of Japan - both vessels have already left Vladivostok, the press service of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) reported on Thursday.

The corvette and submarines of the Pacific Fleet are accompanied by the rescue and towing vessel "Captain Guryev"

A detachment of ships and submarines of the Pacific Fleet (TOF), performing an inter-fleet transition from the Baltic to permanent bases, has entered the Indian Ocean. This was reported to TASS on Thursday on the margins of the Sevastopol Naval Salon by a source close to the power structures of the Crimea.