News of the fleet

In the United States, the launch ceremony of the destroyer USS Carl M. Levin (DDG 120) was held. The ship belongs to a new subtype of the famous Arleigh Burke-class destroyer.

Along with aerial reconnaissance, Russian fighters and bombers began to launch targeted and targeted strikes on Islamist bases in Syria. As it turned out, this activity had its own explanation, Free News notes.

Soon, the elite unit of " navy seals "of the US Navy will receive at its disposal a" dry " submarine – Dry Combat Submersible (DCS). Such an unusual name means that we are talking about a sealed mini-submarine, where the commandos going on special missions will be in comfortable conditions, as on a conventional submarine. The weight of the vessel is only 30 tons, and up to eight commandos can be on board during the day.

Two submarines of the project 636.3 "Varshavyanka" will be laid for the Pacific Fleet by the end of the year, Fleet Commander Sergei Avakyants said.

A large anti-submarine ship (BOD) "Admiral Vinogradov" of the Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation is planned to be sent for modernization, said the commander of the fleet, Admiral Sergei Avakyants.

The Joint Strategic Command (USC) "Northern Fleet", which ensures the security of the Russian part of the Arctic, in the event of a war with the US Navy (Navy) will be destroyed, predicts in the "Military-Industrial Courier" Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Rocket and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) for information Policy, Doctor of Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov.

The Ministry of Defense and one of the enterprises of the United Shipbuilding Corporation signed a contract for the repair and modernization of the ground test training complex

A contract was signed for the repair and modernization of the ground test training complex (aviation) NITKA in the Crimea - a complete ground-based analogue of the aircraft carrier Admiral Kuznetsov. This was reported to TASS by two sources in the military-industrial complex.

According to the German Defense Ministry, on May 17 at the naval base in Wilhelmshaven, a ceremony was held for the commissioning of the German Navy frigate "Sachsen-Anhalt" project F125.

The Pacific Fleet will receive serial corvettes of projects 20380 and 20385, frigates of project 22350. Military sailors will also have new universal landing ships.

The Pacific Fleet's Admiral Vinogradov BOD will be the next Project 1155 ship to be upgraded.

Two new ships with Aegis systems, which Japan plans to build as part of a plan to strengthen its missile defense system, will cost the country at least 900 billion yen (over $ 8.3 billion at the current exchange rate). This was reported by the national newspaper The Asahi.

The project 20380 corvette "Zealous", which is being built by the Northern Shipyard (part of the USC) on the order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation for the Black Sea Fleet, is preparing for the crew's arrival.

Austal Australia, as part of a contract with the military department, has handed over to the Australian Ministry of Defense a Guardian-class patrol boat intended for delivery to the Government of the Solomon Islands. The boat was named "Taro".

According to information published by the Taiwanese media, the Taiwan Coast Guard Command (CGA) has accepted a new 4,000-ton patrol ship built by the Taiwanese shipbuilding company CSBC Corporation.

The Pacific Fleet will receive an anti-submarine ship with advanced air defense capabilities. On the air of Sputnik radio, military observer, retired Colonel Viktor Litovkin spoke about the new capabilities of the modernized project 1155 "Admiral Vinogradov".

The flagship of the Northern Fleet-the heavy nuclear missile cruiser "Peter the Great" went to the Barents Sea to practice the tasks of interspecific exercises in cooperation with the ships of the protection of the water area of the Kola Flotilla of heterogeneous forces, submarines, anti-submarine, bomber and fighter aircraft of the Army of the Air Force and Air Defense of the fleet.

The Chinese have tested a 20-barrel rotating gun that can be used to protect the ships of the Chinese Navy.

A group of ships of the Caspian Flotilla (CFl) of the Southern Military District (SE) and the Naval Forces (Navy) of the Republic of Kazakhstan destroyed air targets in the Caspian Sea as part of a joint naval exercise, the press service of the SE reported on Saturday.

Inherited from the times of the Soviet Union, the weapons have well prepared Russia for the fight for the Arctic, writes the National Interest. According to the author of the article, Robert Farley, Moscow was preparing to confront the West during the Cold War, using the territory of the Arctic. The accumulated experience and a variety of weapons allowed her to acquire a "deadly set of capabilities" in case "something unthinkable" happens in the Arctic Ocean.

The Guards missile cruiser "Moscow" and the frigate" Admiral Grigorovich " returned to Sevastopol after performing planned naval combat exercises in the Black Sea, the Black Sea Fleet said.