News of the fleet

Eight American multi-purpose F-16 Fighting Falcon fighters have arrived at the Graf-Ignatievo air Base in Bulgaria, the US Air Force Command in Europe announced on Monday.

The new Russian fifth-generation engine for surface ships is a big event for the Russian Navy. It will be another evidence that the Russian industry is increasing its capacity and accumulating knowledge.

The American company Saildrone has announced plans for an "attack on a hurricane" – a flotilla of marine drones will be sent to meet a dangerous weather phenomenon to study it in extremely close conditions. Most likely, these will be machines from the Saildrone Surveyor series, which recently performed their first mission in an exemplary manner. A sea-going sailing vessel without a crew made the journey from San Francisco to Hawaii and made a map of the seabed on the way.

More than a decade ago, the Chinese military tested an underwater drone capable of independently finding and attacking submarines. According to the South China Morning Post newspaper, now the details of the tests have been partially declassified. They were published by Professor Liang Golong and his colleagues from Harbin Engineering University in the journal of the educational institution.

The Ukrainian defense minister said in Vilnius that no later than next year Kiev will deploy a "mosquito fleet" with American and British help, which will allow it to "pose a certain threat to the Russian naval forces." However, according to him, this is not enough – that is, the policy of "guns instead of oil" will continue steadily.

The frigate is scheduled to be sent for sea trials in the spring of 2022

The frigate of the project 22350 "Admiral Golovko" will become the first full-time carrier of hypersonic missiles "Zircon". This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

In 2036, the operations of the US Air Force( Air Force), the Marine Corps (KMP) and the US Navy (Navy) with fifth-generation F-35 Lightning II fighters will reach peak values, which may lead to difficulties with supporting these aircraft if the costs of their operation remain at the current level, Defense News writes.

Norway and Germany have completed long-term negotiations on the purchase of new submarines. On July 9, the press service of Thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS) announced the signing of the "largest contract in history".

According to the data presented, the first full-time carrier of the latest hypersonic missile will be the frigate Admiral Golovko. It is also known that, in addition to surface ships, submarines will use it.

The strategic nuclear submarine Tennessee of the Ohio type of the US Navy has received a passive Large Vertical Array (LVA) sonar system that provides an almost 360-degree view, which reduces the "blind spot" area in the aft part of the submarine, writes The Drive.

The American company SpaceX has shown the work of a new autonomous floating platform Shortfall of Gravitas, which is designed for landing the stages of Falcon rockets. The corresponding video was published on July 9 on his Twitter account by the founder of the company, Elon Musk.

The Leningrad Army of the Air Force and Air Defense will take part in the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercises "West-2021" scheduled for September, the Western Military District (ZVO) reported.

The nuclear submarine of the Northern Fleet "Vepr" arrived on July 10 in the Gulf of Finland to prepare and participate in the main naval parade, the Department of Information and Mass Communications of the Russian Defense Ministry reported on Saturday.

In Ukraine, the sunken boat "Burevestnik", known in Soviet times as the boat of Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev, was raised from the bottom of the Black Sea in the port of Odessa.

The forces of the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) of Russia control the actions of the missile boat Daniolos of the Greek Navy, which entered the Black Sea on Saturday, July 10, the National Defense Control Center of Russia reports.

The last time about the corvettes "Reshef "("Saar-72" for the Israeli Navy) I wrote in November 2019. Then the company announced that it had signed a contract with the Ministry of Defense for the development and construction of a new generation of rocket ships to replace the Saar-4.5, but apparently it was only a preliminary design.

Kiev awarded the captain of the British destroyer Defender, who previously violated the state border of Russia, with the Defender of Ukraine medal, RIA Novosti reports.

Calculations of anti-aircraft missile and gun systems "Pantsir-S1" in the Crimea conducted exercises to destroy drones that "attacked" the S-400 air defense systems, the head of the information support department of the Black Sea Fleet, captain of the second rank Alexey Rulev, told reporters on Friday.

JSC "CAMPO" has completed the first stage of construction of the large hydrographic boat "Grigory Shadrin" of the series of hydrographic boats of the project 23370G.

This year, Ukraine may buy a second-hand icebreaker from the UK, which is planned to be used for expeditions to Antarctica, Defense Express reports, referring to the statement of the director of the National Antarctic Research Center Yevgeny Diky.