News of the fleet

Artillery units of the Army Corps of the Baltic Fleet are working out tasks to destroy targets at the maximum distance with the help of unmanned aerial vehicles.

Near Moscow, the exercises of the 45th engineering and camouflage regiment of the Russian Armed Forces were held, during which the military tested unusual inflatable equipment, the Zvezda TV channel reports. At the same time, the maneuvers of the "inflated" troops caused concern in a number of Western media, including the British The Sun.

The crews of the missile ship (ROK) "Tatarstan" and the missile boat (RKA) "Stupinets" of the Caspian Flotilla (CFl), as part of the control check for the winter training period, are working out combat training tasks for their intended purpose as part of the ship's tactical group, the head of the press service of the Southern Military District, Colonel Vadim Astafyev, told reporters on Wednesday.

Military personnel who have recently signed a contract and are serving in the electronic warfare units of the Army Corps of the Baltic Fleet, master the complex "Borisoglebsk-2".

The Spanish company Navantia on April 15 on its Twitter page announced the ceremony of laying the keel of the fifth and last corvette of the Avante-2200 project for the Saudi Navy held at the company in San Fernando (Cadiz).

The Northern Fleet is now able to ensure the protection of national interests and the military security of the state in the Arctic.

The command of the US Navy announced the launch ceremony of the new LCS-24 "Oakland" - class coastal warship "Independence", which took place on April 17 in Oakland, California.

After a six-month delay, the French navy armed itself with a new anti-aircraft frigate. Yesterday, April 20, at the French Navy base in Toulon, the ceremony of handing over the new multi-purpose frigate Alsace to the fleet command took place.

As reported by the Polish media, the only remaining submarine in the Polish Navy Orzeł (tail number "291", Soviet-built project 877E, in service since 1986) is completely incapacitated due to a malfunction of the torpedo armament and the identified inability to load torpedoes into its torpedo tubes.

Russian President Vladimir Putin, during his address to the Federal Assembly, named the share of modern weapons in the country's nuclear triad. The statement of the head of state is reported by RIA Novosti.

As reported, on April 15, 2021, at PJSC " Shipbuilding Firm "Almaz" in St. Petersburg, traditionally without much publicity, the border patrol ship of the 2nd rank "Admiral Ugryumov" (factory number 055) of project 22120 (code "Blizzard"), which is being built for the Border Service of the FSB of Russia, was launched. This is the sixth ship of the project 22120, and neither the order of this unit, nor the beginning of its construction was previously publicly reported.

The marines of the Caspian Flotilla together with the sailors of the Northern Fleet conducted exercises on loading and unloading military equipment on landing ships on the Black Sea coast, the press service of the Southern Military District (SE) reports.

[b]According to the agency's interlocutor, "in November 2020, during the state tests, a salvo was fired from the Kazan, which confirmed the possibility of such launches."]

Nuclear submarines (NPS) of the project 885M cipher "Ash-M" are capable of firing a salvo of cruise missiles "Kalibr-PL" and "Onyx". This was reported to TASS on Tuesday by a source in the military-industrial complex.

A video of the departure of a detachment of ships of the Caspian Flotilla in the Black Sea appeared on the Network. Recall that on the morning of April 17, the detachment passed under the Crimean Bridge. The day before, the ships spent the night in the port of Temryuk, where they replenished their fuel reserves.

Nuclear submarines of the project 885M "Yasen-M" are capable of launching multiple launches of cruise missiles "Kalibr-PL" and "Onyx". First of all, we are talking about the submarine "Kazan".

Seven vessels, a helicopter and a plane took part in an exercise to rescue an emergency ship in the Barents Sea, the press service of the Northern Fleet reported on Tuesday.

JSC "Admiralty Shipyards" (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) has started mooring tests of a large diesel-electric submarine of the project 636.3 "Magadan", the press service of the enterprise reported.

The Pacific Fleet of the Russian Federation will receive another large hydrographic boat of the 19920 project. Yesterday, April 19, the press service of the Vladivostok Shipbuilding Plant named after him. October Revolution reported on the signing of the acceptance certificate on the results of state tests of the boat "Alexander Anishchenko". The timing of the transfer of the vessel to the fleet is not yet reported, but it "will happen in the near future."

Russian Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov, commenting on the reaction of the US State Department to restrictions on ships entering a number of areas of the Black Sea, said that Russia is acting in accordance with international agreements.

Nuclear submarines (NPS) of the project 885M (code "Ash-M") are capable of firing Kalibr and Onyx missiles in a salvo. The unknown possibility of Russian submarines was revealed by TASS, citing a source in the military-industrial complex.