News of the fleet

The small combat radius of the F-18 Super Hornet carrier-based fighters sharply reduced the effectiveness of American aircraft carriers. This was acceptable after the end of the cold War, but it is a wake-up call now, against the background of the growing capabilities of Russia and China, writes MilitaryWatch.

The ships of the Baltic Fleet and the marines of the Northern Fleet will conduct maneuvers in the Baltic Sea in preparation for the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercise "West-2021", the Baltic Fleet said on Monday.

In the Military Harbor of Baltiysk, the marines of the Northern Fleet loaded military equipment onto landing ships for going to sea and landing at the Baltic Fleet training ground "Khmelevka".

Severnaya Verf installed turbines and reducers of the main power plant on the project 22350 Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Isakov frigate under construction.

The third serial frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Isakov" of project 22350, which is being built at the Northern Shipyard (part of the USC), has been loaded with turbines and reducers of a diesel-gas turbine unit (DGTA).

The United States tested the concept of the "ghost fleet" with the launch of the SM-6 rocket. In the future, the Navy wants to get a whole fleet of robotic ships.

The mine defense ship "Afanasy Ivannikov", which belongs to the project 12700" Alexandrite", will be laid in St. Petersburg on September 9. This was reported to journalists on September 6 in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Gorky Zelenodolsk Plant will launch a small Grad rocket ship of the project 21631 (Buyan-M), armed with Kalibr missiles, by the end of September, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov said.

The newest mine defense ship "Vladimir Yemelyanov"arrived in Sevastopol after the transition from the Baltic to the Black Sea Fleet.

The crews of a detachment of ships and vessels of the Northern Fleet in the Barents Sea took part in an exercise to ensure the safety of objects of economic activity of the Russian Federation and to resolve crisis situations in case of their occurrence. The combat training event was held in the area of the frost-resistant ice stationary platform "Prirazlomnaya" in the Barents Sea.

The American magazine Popular Mechanics, referring to the analysis conducted by Naval News, compared the latest nuclear submarines (submarines), which are available to the US Navy (Navy) and the Russian Navy (Navy).

The new Russian hypersonic missiles "Zircon" will be installed on Russian ships after the relevant decision of the military, the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov said in an interview with Interfax on Friday.

JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) will complete the transfer of the main office to St. Petersburg this fall, about 1.5 billion rubles will be spent on the move, the head of USC Alexey Rakhmanov told Interfax on Friday.

The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) plans to build a large series of multi-purpose nuclear submarines of the Yasen-M project equipped with cruise missiles, the head of USC Alexey Rakhmanov said in an interview with Interfax on Friday.

Several variants of the appearance of the promising nuclear destroyer "Leader "have been sent to the Russian Defense Ministry, the decision is up to the military, Alexey Rakhmanov, General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), said in an interview with Interfax on Friday.

On September 1, the Israeli company Rafael Advanced Defense Systems announced the conclusion of a contract worth about $ 80 million, providing for the supply of sets of weapons systems for high-speed patrol boats of the Shaldag Mk. 5 class, which are being built by Israel Shipyards for a customer from Southeast Asia.

The tests of the strategic missile submarine of the Borei-A project Generalissimo Suvorov and the multi-purpose nuclear submarine of the Yasen-M project Krasnoyarsk are scheduled for 2022, the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov said in an interview with Interfax on Friday.

Two "Varshavyanka" went to the Pacific Ocean. On September 3, the TASS news agency reported that the diesel-electric submarines of project 636.3 "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky" and "Volkhov", which were part of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Navy, are making the transition from the Baltic Sea to the place of permanent basing.

The crews of Su-24 bombers and Su-30SM multi-purpose fighters of the Baltic Fleet in the Kaliningrad Region carried out high-precision bombing attacks on important objects of the imaginary enemy.

The development of weapons for the national fleet continues in Turkey. On September 3, the Turkish state-owned company Makine Kimya Endüstri (MKE) presented a 76-mm naval artillery installation and a 20-mm anti-aircraft art complex at the IDEF-2021 weapons exhibition. As the portal notes navalnews.com if information about the creation of a gun for the Navy has already appeared in the press, then the new anti-aircraft art complex turned out to be a surprise for most specialists.