News of the fleet

For the first time, three nuclear submarines will be involved in the Navy holiday

The strategic missile submarine "Prince Vladimir" has arrived from the Northern Fleet in the Gulf of Finland, the commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, said.

The Ministry of Defense of Ukraine has accused Russia of cyber attacks on the website of the country's naval forces and posting false information about the international Sea Breeze exercises. This was reported on Friday, July 9, on the department's website.

State tests of Russian hypersonic missiles "Zircon" will begin before the end of July by firing from the frigate of the project 22350 "Admiral Gorshkov", a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

MBDA Group announced the signing of several contracts for the modernization of air defense systems/ABOUT six destroyers of the Type-45 class of the British Navy.

By the end of this year, Estonia, as promised earlier, will receive a batch of sea mines.

This is reported by the portal err.ee. Representatives of the Estonian Defense Investment Center signed a corresponding agreement with a Finnish manufacturing company on Wednesday in the city of Hanko. The Commander of the Estonian Naval Forces, Commodore Yuri Saska, assured that these mines do not threaten civilian shipping.

The army Corps of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation held exercises with live firing of T-72B3 tanks at the training ground near Simferopol, the fleet said on Thursday.

The Israeli company Israel Shipyards announced the signing of a contract for the supply of four Shaldag-class patrol boats Mk.5 in a configuration adapted to the requirements of the Israeli Navy command.

The show of force at the naval parade will take place after a recent spat with a Royal Navy destroyer. According to the author, the participation of three large submarines is presumably a reaction to the recent incident in the Black Sea, when the destroyer Defender was opposed by Russian troops during its passage past the Crimea.

On July 7, 2021, in Kiel (Germany), at the German shipbuilding enterprise Kieler Werft of the thyssenkrupp Marine Systems association (TKMS, the former Howaldtswerke-Deutsche Werft GmbH / HDW shipyard, part of the thyssenkrupp concern), a ceremony was held for the transfer of the fourth diesel-electric submarine S 44 of project 209/1400Mod built for them to the Egyptian Navy.

According to the commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, three nuclear submarines of the Northern Fleet will arrive in Kronstadt from July 8 to 10.

The Russian military, conducting exercises on Tuesday, did not interfere with the Sea Breeze exercise, which involves ships of NATO countries and their partners, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Tuesday.

The head of the Crimean Parliament's committee on people's diplomacy and interethnic relations, Yuri Hempel, called British Foreign Minister Dominic Raab a provocateur of the highest rank after words about new ship passages off the coast of Crimea.

The crew of the minesweeper "Valentin Pikul" conducted exercises with the development of mine action in the Kerch Strait, the Black Sea Fleet reported.

The Russian Navy is introducing new tactical techniques for using mine defense ships of the 12700 project. The newest minesweepers have the most modern weapons, sailors consider them ships of the XXI century.

The American company Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII) announced the conclusion of a contract for the supply of four autonomous underwater vehicles " REMUS-300 "(REMUS-Remote Environmental Measuring Units) New Zealand Navy.

The Russian Navy will receive a "mini-cruiser missile carrier". On July 6, the Izvestia newspaper reported that the Ministry of Defense agreed on a plan to modernize the Admiral Chabanenko BOD under a project similar to the one under which the Marshal Shaposhnikov BOD was updated.

The patrol ship Rayo of the Spanish Navy has entered the Black Sea, the Russian fleet is watching it. This was reported on Wednesday, July 7, at the National Defense Control Center of the Russian Federation.

Danish television has published a video taken by the installer Mads Christensen from the bridge over the Great Belt Strait at the moment when the nuclear submarine of the Northern Fleet "Eagle" was passing under it.

By 2022, Ukraine, with the help of the United States and Great Britain, will probably receive a fleet of small ships with combat capabilities. This was announced by the Minister of Defense of the country Andrey Taran.

Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov checked at the Sevmash plant (Severodvinsk) the course of modernization of the nuclear cruiser "Admiral Nakhimov" and said that the military expects to receive the nuclear submarines planned for delivery this year.