News of the fleet

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.

Units of the Marine Corps and the Army Corps of the Black Sea Fleet will conduct live firing exercises in the Crimea on September 7, using ships. This was reported on September 4 in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The newest American stealth destroyer of the Zumwalt type has returned to its native shipyard after a five-day voyage. On September 3, the press service of the Bath Iron Works shipyard, part of the General Dynamics Corporation, announced that the USS Lyndon B. Johnson passed factory sea trials in the Atlantic Ocean.

In the image from space of Maxar Technologies, demonstrating the oceanographic research vessel "Akademik Alexandrov" of the 20183 project in Severodvinsk (Arkhangelsk region), you can see a product that resembles a Russian torpedo of the apocalypse - a nuclear underwater drone "Poseidon" 2M39, writes the American edition of USNI News.

Russia wants to replace the search and reconnaissance helicopters on its ships with longer-range unmanned aerial vehicles.

This week, such a statement was made by the Russian Foundation for Advanced Research (which is an analogue of the Office of Advanced Research and Development of the US Department of Defense). 

Exercises on conducting reconnaissance by unmanned aerial vehicles were held in the Baltic Fleet.

The training was held in preparation for the joint strategic exercises of the Armed Forces of Russia and Belarus "West-2021".

The short range of the F-18 Super Hornet fighters complicates their use in the fight against Russia and China and makes US aircraft carriers vulnerable to long-range attacks. This is reported by the publication Military Watch.

The UK Ministry of Defense is considering the possibility of deploying its submarines with a nuclear arsenal on US or French military bases in the event of Scotland gaining independence. This was reported on September 1 by the Financial Times newspaper.

Popular Mechanics compared the characteristics of two advanced nuclear attack submarines: the Russian Yasen-M and the American Virginia. The conclusion: who is who, is ambiguous. The American submarine carries more missiles, but the Russian one has "more tricks".

The NATO ships and planes that were closely watching the Russian submarines lost them again.

The NATO military, which began tracking three Russian diesel-electric submarines in the western part of the Mediterranean Sea, again failed to cope with its task of establishing the current position of Russian submarines.

The UK has prepared an action plan for the transfer of its submarines from bases in Scotland in case the autonomy leaves the kingdom.

On August 30, the US Navy Command announced the completion of the final tests, in accordance with the contract for the supply (FCT), of the new LHA-7 "Tripoli"universal landing ship (UDC).