News of the fleet

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Corporation (USC) has almost completed the relocation of its main office from Moscow to St. Petersburg, the head of USC, Alexey Rakhmanov, told Interfax on Monday.

It is planned to complete the tests before the ice break on the White Sea with the implementation of several launches

Tests of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" from the submarine carrier-the nuclear submarine (submarine) of the project 885 "Severodvinsk" - are scheduled to begin at the end of August. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The latest infantry fighting vehicles BMP-3 of the fleet modification, which entered service a few months ago, are being involved in exercises in Primorye for the first time, said Ilya Kolesnikov, head of the information support department of the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO) for the Pacific Fleet (TOP).

As part of the project to strengthen the mechanism for controlling rivers and protecting the population, the Command of the Colombian Navy has adopted two BRF-230 low-draft river boats built by COTECMAR.

Doctor of Military Sciences Konstantin Sivkov in a conversation with " Lenta.ru "called the possible reasons for stopping the course of the Russian nuclear-powered submarine missile cruiser "Eagle". According to him, this may be due to the ingress of foreign objects into the water intake, navigation error, winding fishing nets on the screw, and so on.

Minesweepers that have served for more than twenty years in the British Navy will be transferred to the Ukrainian Navy next year. On August 5, the press service of the Royal Navy announced the decommissioning of the ships HMS Ramsey and HMS Blyth.

On Friday, August 6, at a meeting with the staff of the Krasnoyarsk Machine-Building Plant, Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu spoke well about the new multi-purpose boat bearing the name of the city of factory workers. The submarine was built in Severomorsk and launched a few days ago. After completion, it will go to sea for testing.

General Director of the enterprise Igor Orlov said that after the ship's admission to the Navy and the ceremony of raising the St. Andrew's flag, Vsevolod Bobrov will begin preparations for the inter-fleet transition to the home port of Sevastopol.

During the flight, one intermediate landing was made

The aircraft of the 279th separate ship-based fighter aviation Regiment (OKIAP) of the Northern Fleet Naval Aviation (SF) of the Russian Navy performed the flight started on the eve of the "ground aircraft carrier" in the Crimea - the ground test training complex (aviation) (NITKA). This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

US Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin and Israeli Defense Minister Beni Gantz discussed the incident with the Mercer Street tanker in the Ottoman Gulf, which killed two people, according to a statement issued by the Pentagon on Friday.

The ship will become part of the forces of the permanent connection of the Navy and will replace the crew of the frigate "Admiral Makarov"

The frigate of the Black Sea Fleet "Admiral Essen" passes the Black Sea Straits in the direction of the Mediterranean Sea. This is stated on Saturday in the press service of the Black Sea Fleet.

The ship's strike group of the Northern Fleet, operating in the areas of the North-Eastern Atlantic as part of the command and staff training on the management of forces and troops of the Northern Fleet, conducted a missile strike exercise for a ship's group of a conditional enemy.

The Iranian Foreign Ministry on Saturday rejected the accusations of the recent attack on the Mercer Street tanker in the Gulf of Oman, made the day before by the Group of Seven.

A significant part of the ship's composition of the Russian Navy (Navy), especially the ocean zone, still remains Soviet, writes Konstantin Sivkov, Deputy President of the Russian Academy of Missile and Artillery Sciences (RARAN) for information Policy, Doctor of Military Sciences, in the Military-Industrial Courier, assessing the main parade of the Navy held in St. Petersburg in July.

It will be held at 20 polygons

As part of the bilateral battalion tactical exercises of motorized rifle, tank and artillery units of the Southern Military District (SEO), specialists of all branches of the armed forces will perform combat training tasks, the press service of the SEO reported on Sunday.

30 years ago, in the Barents Sea, the strategic nuclear submarine K-407 (now Novomoskovsk) released the entire ammunition set from the underwater position-16 R-29 Sineva ballistic missiles with an interval of 14 seconds. The operation was called "Behemoth-2" and made a great impression on potential opponents of the Soviet Union (the Americans were able to launch only four missiles from the Ohio submarine in one salvo).

The UK will transfer two decommissioned ships of the Ukrainian Navy to Ukraine. This is stated on the website of the Royal Navy.

The ship's strike group (KUG) from the formation of ships protecting the water area of the troops and forces in the North-east of Russia returned to its home base after performing combat service tasks in the Pacific Ocean, the press service of the Eastern Military District (VVO) reported on Thursday.

A lockdown in Russia in the spring of 2020 due to the coronavirus epidemic threatened to disrupt the supply of weapons and military equipment under the state defense order and for export in the amount of several trillion rubles, Russian Defense Minister General of the Army Sergei Shoigu said.

The Times newspaper on Wednesday, August 4, named a high-ranking employee of the British Ministry of Defense who lost secret documents about the destroyer Defender near a bus stop in Kent.