News of the fleet

December 29 marked the 40th anniversary of the signing of the acceptance certificate of the heavy nuclear-powered strategic submarine Dmitry Donskoy. The nuclear-powered project 941 was built on Sevmash (part of USC).

In Kaliningrad, the Baltic Shipbuilding Plant "Yantar" completed work on the repair and modernization of the Baltic Fleet patrol ship "Intrepid".

Admiral Jorge Wilson, Commander of the Uruguayan Navy, signed a letter accepting a proposal for the gratuitous transfer of three Protector-class boats from the US Coast Guard within the framework of the intergovernmental agreement between the United States and Uruguay.

In August, a ceremony of laying two new strategic class nuclear submarines was held in Russia: "Prince Potemkin" and "Dmitry Donskoy". With them, the total number of submarines under construction designed to launch ballistic missiles has grown to five.

In the autumn of 2022, the ship will have to start performing complex mooring and factory sea trials at sea, the interlocutor of TASS noted

The second serial nuclear submarine missile carrier of Project 955A (code "Borey-A") "Generalissimo Suvorov", withdrawn from the boathouse on December 25 at Sevmash (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation), after completing the test program at sea, will be handed over to the Navy (Navy) of the Russian Federation in the first half of 2023. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

Austal Limited has announced the transfer by its Austal USA division to the US Navy Command of the Independence-class coastal zone warship, LCS-30 Canberra.

Despite its relatively modest size, Russian diesel-electric submarines pose a real threat to the US Navy, writes 19fortyfive. The problem is their noiselessness - even compared to nuclear-powered ships. American sailors know this and do not like non-nuclear submarines produced in Russia.

Andrei Kartapolov, head of the State Duma Defense Committee, believes that Russian ships with Zircon hypersonic missiles can be located in the port of Tartus in Syria to completely block the Mediterranean Sea.

The crews of large amphibious ships were on the march for 1.5 months

The large landing ships (BDK) of the Baltic Fleet "Minsk" and "Korolev" returned to the military harbor of Baltiysk after completing the tasks of a long-distance sea voyage, the press service of the fleet reported.

TASS: the corvette "Agile" to be fully restored after a fire at the shipyard

In 2026, the Nimble corvette can be fully restored after a fire that occurred on December 17 during the construction of the vessel at the Severnaya Shipyard in St. Petersburg. This is reported by TASS with reference to a source in the shipbuilding industry.

The submarine Generalissimo Suvorov will strengthen the Pacific Fleet - the commander-in-chief of the Navy Nikolai Evmenov expressed firm confidence in this at the launch of a new ship from the slipway, which was built at Sevmash according to the project of the Central Design Bureau Rubin and will be armed with the Bulava strategic missile system.

This is the second serial missile carrier, which was laid down and built according to the improved project 09552 "Borey-A". The Prince Oleg in front of him has already been accepted into the Navy and on December 21 raised the St. Andrew's flag - on the same day as the Novosibirsk submarine (the Ash-M project of the Malachite Design Bureau).

Small rocket and artillery ships, as well as base minesweepers arrived in the city

More than 20 ships of the Caspian Flotilla have been relocated in Dagestan from Makhachkala to a new military base in Kaspiysk, where a port has been built to accommodate the flotilla's forces and assets. This was reported to journalists on Monday in the press service of the Southern Military District.

In Mishukovo, the main base of hydrographers of the Northern Fleet, on December 24, a solemn flag-raising ceremony was held on a new hydrographic boat of the project 23040G "Leonid Senchura".

On December 24, the Baltic Plant (part of the USC) hosted the signing ceremony of the act of acceptance and transfer of the first serial universal nuclear icebreaker "Siberia" project 22220. The ceremony was held on board the newest vessel.

The first launches of the main engines and diesel generators took place on the "Sharp" corvette, which is being tested at the delivery base of the Amur Shipbuilding Plant (part of the USC) in Vladivostok.

As part of the celebration of the 74th anniversary of the establishment of the Myanmar Navy, on December 24, a ceremony was held at the Thilawa Dockyard in Sinmalaike (Yangon Naval Base) to introduce the Type-035 submarine transferred from the presence of the PLA Navy into the Myanmar fleet.

The only surviving research vessel from the Soviet "star flotilla" is being transferred to the Kaliningrad Region and will remain a museum afloat.

The Pentagon's Advanced Defense Development Agency (DARPA) has signed a contract with Northrop Grumman Systems and Martin Defense to create a full-scale demonstrator of the underwater robot Manta Ray. The military wants this robot to be able to work in the ocean for a long time without maintenance and repair.

The corvette "Savvy" conducted an exercise in the Baltic Sea with the combat launch of an anti-aircraft missile from the Redoubt complex, the press service of the Baltic Fleet reported.

As reported by the Global Times, Chinese experts have completed tests of an air-independent power plant (VNEU) based on a Stirling engine. They want to use it on new non-nuclear submarines of the 039C project.