News of the fleet

The small rocket ship "Askold" of the project 22800, the construction of which was carried out at the Kerch Shipbuilding Plant named after B. E. Butoma by order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, was launched.

In St. Petersburg, as part of the 16th International Exhibition "NEVA-2021", the first presentation of wave and underwater gliders developed by the corporation's partner, the St. Petersburg State Marine Technical University, took place at the USC stand on September 21.

The crew of the "Agile" corvette of project 20385, which is being built at the Severnaya Verf enterprise to connect ships protecting the water area of Troops and forces in the North-East of Russia, will soon begin studying the ship.

The EU, against the background of the situation with the refusal of Australia from the contract with France for the creation of submarines, needs to make more efforts to strengthen its own defense potential, the head of the European Council, Charles Michel, told reporters at the UN on Monday.

Submarines of the Varshavyanka type (projects 877 and 636) began to be called "black holes" because of the appearance of a new main rowing electric motor, from which the submarines became almost silent, Andrei Baranov, deputy General Director of the Central Design Bureau of Marine Technology (CCB MT) "Rubin", said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The strategic cruiser "Alexander Nevsky" of the Pacific Fleet (Pacific Fleet), after successfully completing tasks at sea, returned to its permanent base in Kamchatka. This was reported by the press service of the fleet on Tuesday, September 21.

The Rubin Central Design Bureau of Marine Technology (CCB MT) has already presented to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation several new projects of non-nuclear submarines of the next fifth generation, Kalina among them, Deputy General Director of the enterprise Andrey Baranov said in an interview with RIA Novosti.

The hydrographic vessel "Horizon" under the command of Vitaly Khopryachkov returned to the base of the hydrographic vessels of the Northern Fleet – the village of Mishukovo – from a one-and-a-half-month Arctic campaign.

Biomorphism is a great way to remain inconspicuous, even when in plain sight. September 20, portal wenweipo.com He reported that engineers of the Northwestern Polytechnic University of China (Xi'an city) have developed and successfully tested a robotic copy of a sea stingray, which can potentially become a weapon of the future.

In Kerch, at the B. E. Butoma Shipbuilding Plant, a solemn launch of the small Askold rocket ship of the Karakurt project 22800 took place. The ceremony was attended by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov. Askold is the second ship built at the Kerch enterprise.

The lead non-nuclear submarine "Saint Petersburg" of project 677 "Lada" has completed pilot operation and has become a full-fledged combat unit in the Russian Navy.

A detachment of ships of the Northern Fleet (SF) as part of the Arctic campaign conducted artillery firing in the Laptev Sea, the press service of the SF reported on Tuesday.

The maneuvers take place against the background of the Rapid Trident exercises in Ukraine with the participation of NATO forces

Russian ships on exercises in the Black Sea destroyed a submarine of a conditional enemy, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) reported on Tuesday.

On September 16, the US Navy Shipbuilding and Armament Command announced the completion of acceptance tests of the Arleigh Burke-class destroyer URO (DDG-121) "Frank E. Petersen Jr.", intended for the US Navy.

Alexey Rakhmanov, General Director of USC, pointed out that the appearance of unmanned vessels in the waters depends not only on the technical capability, but also on changes in the regulatory framework

The technical possibility of building unmanned vessels in Russia will appear in three years. This was stated by the General Director of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation" (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov during the plenary session at the forum "Neva 2021".

Since non-nuclear submarines are inferior to nuclear submarines in their effectiveness, the termination of the contract with France for the construction of submarines of the Shortfin Barracuda Block 1A project in favor of American (Virginia) or British (Astute) is beneficial to Australia, military expert Dmitry Boltenkov tells in Izvestia.

The crews of the ships of the Northern Fleet conducted exercises to protect the Northern Sea Route in the Laptev Sea, the Zvezda TV channel reports. The maneuvers involved a large anti-submarine ship "Severomorsk", a large landing ship "George the Victorious", as well as a Ka-27 helicopter.

The entry of Canberra into the AUKUS partnership and the rejection of the contract with Paris for the construction of submarines may lead to the fact that Australia will receive submarines a decade later than planned - in 2040, said French Defense Ministry spokesman Herve Grandjean.

The meeting of French Defense Ministers Florence Parly and Great Britain's Ben Wallace, which was supposed to take place this week, was canceled due to Paris ' dissatisfaction with Australia's decision to build nuclear submarines within the framework of AUKUS, The Guardian reports.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson is seeking to smooth over the sharpness in relations with France that arose after the British-American deal with Australia on the construction of submarines instead of French ones.