News of the fleet

More than 500 Russian servicemen, tanks and artillery are involved in the exercise, which began on the Kuril Islands, the Eastern Military District (VVO) said on Wednesday.

South Korea has become the eighth country in the world to be armed with submarine-launched ballistic missiles. On September 8, the Yonhap news Agency reported that the Defense Development Agency (ADD) of the Republic of Korea announced the successful launch of the SLBM.

The newest mine defense ship "Vladimir Yemelyanov" under the command of Lieutenant Commander Denis Gainutdinov has completed the inter-fleet transition to the permanent base point - Sevastopol-from the Baltic Fleet. A decent meeting was prepared for him at his native pier. The crew, which consists exclusively of contractors, was met with an orchestra, bread and salt and a fried pig.

The Swedish company Saab has announced that it will demonstrate for the first time outside Sweden a new generation of high-speed attack boats CB90 (Combat Boat 90) at the DSEi exhibition in London, which will be held from September 14 to 17.

As reported on September 6, 2021, JSC "Shipbuilding Plant "Severnaya Verf" (St. Petersburg, part of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation"), the fourth frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Isakov" project 22350 (factory number 924), under construction for the Russian Navy, was loaded with turbines and reducers of a diesel-gas turbine unit (DGTA). The DGTA M55R, developed by the United Engine Corporation, is the second fully domestic unit created at Russian facilities as part of the import substitution program.

The Ukrainian state enterprise "Zorya" - "Mashproekt" has signed a contract with the Indian company Goa Shipyard for the supply of two M7N2 engines, Ukroboronprom reports.

A ballistic missile was launched for the first time from the board of the newest South Korean submarine Dosan An Chan-ho. Earlier, similar tests were conducted by Seoul's northern neighbor, using old Soviet technologies.

At the international military-technical forum "Army-2021", Russia presented a new product-an underwater drone. Its main task is to explore the seabed, but if necessary, it can also attack. The timing of commissioning has not yet been reported, but the manufacturer has already told about the characteristics of the device.

The Russian " torpedo of the apocalypse — - a nuclear underwater drone "Poseidon" - changes the idea of a nuclear threat, since it represents a new category of strategic weapons, says the Norwegian publication Resett.

The Swedish fleet will receive a new generation of corvettes. On September 6, the press service of the Swedish Defense Material Supply Department (FMV) announced the start of work on ships with the working name Visby Generation II.

Units manned by reservists have been transferred to the Kaliningrad Region, where the Zapad-2021 exercises will soon take place, the Russian Defense Ministry said.

The small combat radius of the F-18 Super Hornet carrier-based fighters sharply reduced the effectiveness of American aircraft carriers. This was acceptable after the end of the cold War, but it is a wake-up call now, against the background of the growing capabilities of Russia and China, writes MilitaryWatch.

The ships of the Baltic Fleet and the marines of the Northern Fleet will conduct maneuvers in the Baltic Sea in preparation for the Russian-Belarusian strategic exercise "West-2021", the Baltic Fleet said on Monday.

In the Military Harbor of Baltiysk, the marines of the Northern Fleet loaded military equipment onto landing ships for going to sea and landing at the Baltic Fleet training ground "Khmelevka".

Severnaya Verf installed turbines and reducers of the main power plant on the project 22350 Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Isakov frigate under construction.

The third serial frigate "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Isakov" of project 22350, which is being built at the Northern Shipyard (part of the USC), has been loaded with turbines and reducers of a diesel-gas turbine unit (DGTA).

The United States tested the concept of the "ghost fleet" with the launch of the SM-6 rocket. In the future, the Navy wants to get a whole fleet of robotic ships.

The mine defense ship "Afanasy Ivannikov", which belongs to the project 12700" Alexandrite", will be laid in St. Petersburg on September 9. This was reported to journalists on September 6 in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

The Gorky Zelenodolsk Plant will launch a small Grad rocket ship of the project 21631 (Buyan-M), armed with Kalibr missiles, by the end of September, the commander-in-chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov said.

The newest mine defense ship "Vladimir Yemelyanov"arrived in Sevastopol after the transition from the Baltic to the Black Sea Fleet.