News of the fleet

The US Navy has transferred the equipping of Zumwalt-type stealth destroyers with medium-range hypersonic missiles. American sailors will receive the first ship with new weapons no earlier than fiscal year 2025. This is reported by The Drive.

At the end of the day on November 4, with reference to the top officials in the command of the US Navy, two messages came about the causes of the emergency with the American nuclear submarine USS Connecticut in the South China Sea and about who and what responsibility was incurred for what happened.

On November 5, 1976, the missile cruiser "Moscow" was laid down, then it was called "Glory". This is the lead ship of Project 1164 "Atlant". After the decommissioning of the Project 1123 anti-submarine cruiser Moskva, the ship inherited his name.

In the Pacific Fleet in 2021, according to the results of combat training, 27 military units were awarded the honorary name "Shock".

The next documentary "Görünməyən qəhrəmanlar - Dəniz pişikləri" ("Invisible Heroes - Naval Special Forces"), shown by the Azerbaijani Public Television ITV, dedicated to the participation of the special operations forces of the Azerbaijani Navy in the Second Karabakh War in the autumn of 2020, contains interesting details of the active involvement of Azerbaijani naval special forces in the fighting in Nagorno-Karabakh. We thank Mammad Valimamedov for the link and presentation of the translation of fragments of the film.

The surface component of the Pacific Fleet will be replenished by 2027 with 12 corvettes of projects 20385 and 20380, said the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, quoted by the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

A detachment of ships and vessels of the Northern Fleet led by the large anti-submarine ship (BOD) "Vice Admiral Kulakov" made a business call at the port of Praia - the capital of the island republic of Cape Verde, which is located in the Atlantic Ocean off the west coast of Africa, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported.

The US Navy ships that entered the Black Sea conducted joint exercises with the Bulgarian frigate "Gordi", the 6th Operational Fleet of the United States reported.

The Pacific Fleet headquarters summed up the results of combat training in the past academic year. It, we recall, in the Armed Forces begins in December, and ends in October.

It is reported that the largest event at the Pacific Fleet was an operational exercise in the Central Pacific Ocean - the first in the recent history of the fleet. There, the command involved more than 20 warships, submarines and vessels, as well as aircraft and helicopters of naval aviation. In two months, the detachment of ships overcame more than 20 thousand nautical miles and performed about fifty combat exercises.

A detachment of ships of the Russian Navy consisting of the corvette "Gremyashchy", the submarines "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky" and "Volkhov", performing the transition from the Baltic to the place of permanent deployment to the Pacific Fleet, passed the Singapore Strait, the Alert 5 Twitter account, which publishes photos of the ships, reported.

The new Russian small rocket ship Cyclone will undergo sea trials and weapons preparation for test firing in the Black Sea in mid-November, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The American vessel HOS Red Rock, which is used by the US Navy as a carrier of the SURTASS-E experimental sonar reconnaissance system, entered the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, follows from the data of the international ship tracking system (AIS).

The crews of the ships of the Baltic Fleet (BF) have carried out 430 combat exercises this year, including rocket, artillery and torpedo firing, mine laying, depth bombing, anti-mine exercises. This was announced on Sunday, November 7, by the press service of the BF.

Mikhail Sheremet, a deputy of the State Duma of the Russian Federation from the Crimean region, said that the United States should not "mess around" and test Russia's strength by passing its ships through territorial waters off the coast of Crimea.

The Iranian armed forces on Sunday launched large-scale exercises "Zulfikar-1400" in coastal areas in the south-east of the country, as well as in nearby waters - from the eastern waters of the Strait of Hormuz to the northern Indian Ocean, the Tasnim agency reports.

Conducting regular military exercises bypassing the Montreux Convention will help deprive Russia of dominance in the Black Sea - this opinion was shared by US Navy officer Brian Harrington in an article for The Hill.

The frigate (patrol ship) "Admiral Essen" conducted exercises in the Black Sea to cover the base point of ships in the Crimea from a strike by a group of aircraft of a conditional enemy, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet reports.

The Army of the People's Republic of China, presumably, already has a nuclear triad. This is stated in the report of the US Department of Defense, distributed on Wednesday, November 3.

The crews of the Russian submarines Rostov-on-Don and Veliky Novgorod of the Varshavyanka project worked out the launch of Kalibr-PL missiles during the exercises. Conditional defeat of surface targets was made after the entry of the US Navy destroyer USS Porter (DDG-78) into the Black Sea. This is reported by Interfax with reference to the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) of Russia.

The upcoming equipping of the Russian Navy with Zircon missiles will be a powerful deterrent to any potential enemy, military political analyst Alexander Perendzhiev expressed this opinion on Sputnik radio.