News of the fleet

For the first time, Russia has deployed five submarines in the Mediterranean Sea, known as "black holes" and serving as carriers of Kalibr cruise missiles, TASS reports, citing a source in the shipbuilding industry.

The Fifth Fleet of the US Navy, based in the Middle East, said that it will deploy a new task force in the region, which will include air, surface and underwater unmanned vehicles.

On September 7, the Spanish company Navantia announced the start of sea trials of the lead of five Avante-2200 class corvettes ordered for the Saudi Arabian Navy.

The commander-in-chief of the Navy Nikolai Evmenov called this series of ships reliable

The Russian Navy plans to order 10 more mine defense ships of the 12700 project. This was announced to journalists on Thursday by the commander-in-chief of the Navy Nikolai Evmenov after the laying ceremony of the ninth ship of the Afanasy Ivannikov project, which was held at the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard.

Israel Shipyards Ltd. announced the signing of a contract with the Israeli Defense Ministry for the implementation of the development stage of the working project of the next-generation corvette Reshef for the Israeli Navy.

Israel has completed the acceptance of four corvettes from Germany. September 8, portal defensenews.com He reported that the ship Nitzahon arrived in the port of Haifa after a two-week journey from Germany.

In the UK, a hybrid of a speedboat and a submarine was assembled. Portal janes.com He reported that today, on September 9, the SubSea Craft company begins testing a prototype of the Victa boat.

Large-scale exercises have started in the Arctic, in which about 8 thousand military personnel, 800 units of combat and special equipment, as well as up to 50 ships and vessels will take part.

According to the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation, units of land and coastal troops, as well as air defense troops of the Northern Fleet moved to the training grounds in the Murmansk region as part of an exercise with the Arctic expeditionary group.

The Northern Fleet has begun large-scale exercises in the Arctic zone, its press service told reporters. The maneuvers will take place in the waters of the Barents and Kara Seas, the Laptev Sea, in the area of the Novosibirsk Islands and the Franz Josef Land archipelago.

The Northern Fleet of the Russian Navy has begun exercises in the Arctic zone, at one of the stages the defense of the Northern Sea Route will be worked out, RIA Novosti reports.

Turkey has laid the first of four planned corvettes of a new type for the Ukrainian Naval Forces. The main contractor is the state-owned company STM.

According to the press service of the Southern Military District, on September 6, 2021, the newest mine defense ship "Vladimir Yemelyanov" of project 12700 (factory number 524) arrived in Sevastopol to the place of permanent basing after the transition from the Baltic to the Black Sea Fleet. It became the second base minesweeper of the project 12700 in the Black Sea Fleet after the ship "Ivan Antonov" (factory number 523), which arrived in Sevastopol on September 7, 2019.

In Kamchatka, the division of the coastal anti-ship missile complex "Bal", which is part of the missile connection of troops and forces in the North-East of Russia, was alerted as part of a tactical exercise that has begun, said on Wednesday the head of the information support department of the press service of the VVO for the Pacific Fleet, Captain 3 rank Ilya Kolesnikov.

The Pacific Fleet received the first batch of AK-12 submachine guns. In the near future, the military personnel at the combat training grounds will conduct shooting and maintenance of new weapons.

The boat of the project R1650 "Rondo", built by the Sredne-Nevsky Shipyard (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation), has successfully completed the program of factory sea trials.

More than 500 Russian servicemen, tanks and artillery are involved in the exercise, which began on the Kuril Islands, the Eastern Military District (VVO) said on Wednesday.

South Korea has become the eighth country in the world to be armed with submarine-launched ballistic missiles. On September 8, the Yonhap news Agency reported that the Defense Development Agency (ADD) of the Republic of Korea announced the successful launch of the SLBM.

The newest mine defense ship "Vladimir Yemelyanov" under the command of Lieutenant Commander Denis Gainutdinov has completed the inter-fleet transition to the permanent base point - Sevastopol-from the Baltic Fleet. A decent meeting was prepared for him at his native pier. The crew, which consists exclusively of contractors, was met with an orchestra, bread and salt and a fried pig.

The Swedish company Saab has announced that it will demonstrate for the first time outside Sweden a new generation of high-speed attack boats CB90 (Combat Boat 90) at the DSEi exhibition in London, which will be held from September 14 to 17.

As reported on September 6, 2021, JSC "Shipbuilding Plant "Severnaya Verf" (St. Petersburg, part of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation"), the fourth frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Isakov" project 22350 (factory number 924), under construction for the Russian Navy, was loaded with turbines and reducers of a diesel-gas turbine unit (DGTA). The DGTA M55R, developed by the United Engine Corporation, is the second fully domestic unit created at Russian facilities as part of the import substitution program.