News of the fleet

Diesel-electric submarines "Volkhov" and "Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky" conducted training exercises in the Baltic Sea, the press service of the Baltic Fleet (BF) reported on Thursday.

Russian warships will be able to enter the Congo, and planes will be able to land on the territory of this country. This provides for an intergovernmental agreement on military cooperation.

The unmanned surface vehicle from the Pentagon's "Master of the Phantom Fleet" program made a journey of 4,421 nautical miles (about 8,187.7 kilometers). According to the US Navy, 98 percent of the route it was in autonomous mode, but the captain led it through the Panama Canal.

The explosion of a high-pressure air cylinder on board the Indian Navy's nuclear submarine "Chakra" (INS Chakra) of the project 971U "Pike-B", which occurred in the spring of 2020 and damaged both hulls of the submarine, caused its early return to Russia by India from the lease.

From June 23 to 27, 2021, the tenth International Naval Salon "MVMS 2021"will be held in St. Petersburg. The salon is held in accordance with the decree of the Government of the Russian Federation No. 1906-r of 19.07.2019. The Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Russian Federation has been designated as the organizer of the "MVMS-2021".

The exercise of the Northern Fleet of Russia with the participation of more than 20 ships and submarines has begun. Captain of the 1st rank of the reserve, military expert Vasily Dandykin, spoke about the need for such exercises on Sputnik radio.

As reported, for a year and a half after launching, the border patrol ship Rasul Gamzatov (the 14th and last in the Project 22460 series), which is being defended at the Almaz Shipbuilding Company in St. Petersburg and has not yet been put into operation, received a new combat module on the forecastle, which the previous ships of this project were not equipped with.

The newest corvette of the project 20386 " Mercury "is the first of the Russian ships to be built entirely according to the"stealth" concept. This was told to RIA Novosti by two knowledgeable sources.

For the implementation of the project, a state order is needed, said the company's General director Alexey Rakhmanov

Design bureaus and enterprises belonging to the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) are able to develop and build underwater robotic systems for the protection of the Arctic shelf and drilling platforms.

At the same time, the corporation called the issue of import substitution in the production of gas turbine units for Russian frigates of project 22350 by the engine-building company UEC-Saturn completely resolved.

The specialists of the search and rescue support of the Northern Fleet returned to the main base of the Northern Fleet - the city of Severomorsk after the Russian-Norwegian rescue exercise "Barents-2021".

It took place in the Barents Sea. Representatives of the two countries practiced joint actions there to search for and evacuate conditionally in distress at sea, deliver them to rescue ships and provide medical assistance.

Russian Project 20386 corvettes of the Mercury type may face the same problems as American coastal warships of the Freedom and Independence types, writes The National Interest.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that during meetings with the head of the US State Department Anthony Blinken and US senators, they discussed increasing military assistance to Ukraine, as well as strengthening security in the Black and Azov Seas.

The Black Sea Fleet has received the newest small sea tanker "Vice-Admiral Ferries". The St. Andrew's flag was raised on it. The lead vessel of the project 03182 is capable of solving the tasks of supplying ships and vessels, as well as performing rescue functions.

The crew of the diesel-electric submarine "Magadan" of project 636.3 (code "Varshavyanka") provides the final stage of mooring tests of the DAPL, in which the delivery team of the "Admiralty Shipyards" participates.

In the Northern Fleet, more than 20 warships and submarines, about ten aircraft and helicopters will be involved in the exercise of diverse forces to protect Russia's maritime borders in the Arctic. They began on Monday in the Barents Sea.

A series of small marine tankers of project 03182 will be built for the Russian Navy, which will join the auxiliary fleet.

Serial deliveries of new-generation S-500 Prometheus air defense systems and Zircon hypersonic missiles will soon begin, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told Interfax.

The new-generation S-500 Prometheus air defense systems and the Zircon hypersonic missiles will soon be mass-delivered to the military units of the Russian army. This was stated at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov.

The active phase of mooring tests began on the oceanographic research vessel "Eugene Goriglejan", which is being built at the Baltic shipyard" Yantar " in Kaliningrad.