News of the fleet

On the last day of the outgoing year, a new deadline was called for the transfer of the Kazan nuclear submarine to the fleet, which completed its assigned tests and was preparing to raise the Naval flag on December 30, 2020. Now they intend to do this in the first quarter of the coming year.

More than 10 ships of the black sea fleet (BSF), including the carriers of cruise missiles "Caliber" frigate "Admiral Grigorovich" and small missile ship "Vishny Volochek" met new year in the Russian squadron in the Mediterranean sea, reported the press service of the BSF.

In 2020, the PLA Navy added 24 surface ships of various classes. This year, the military shipbuilding of the People's Republic of China set a kind of record for the corvettes of the project 056 - 15 units transferred to the fleet.

Warships of the Northern Fleet in 2021 will continue to perform tasks to ensure a naval presence in strategically important areas of the World Ocean.

Ships and submarines, air defense systems, aircraft and intercontinental missiles — the Russian army will receive almost 3,500 units of new equipment in 2021. Two-thirds of the military budget will be spent on the purchase and modernization of weapons. About the most interesting samples - in the material of RIA Novosti.

In Vladivostok, the tests of the modernized frigate "Marshal Shaposhnikov" are coming to an end. Built 35 years ago, the ship is now equipped with the latest weapons systems and has actually received a rebirth.

The development of energy weapons in the United States and China is worth paying attention to

In leading foreign countries, along with the development of traditional means of armed struggle, weapons based on new physical principles, in particular energy weapons, are being actively developed. It is designed to destroy or disable weapons, military and special equipment by exposing them to powerful directed laser radiation.

Mil Design Bureau could create the world's first rotary-wing transformer, but lost the palm to Bell

Periodically, at various exhibitions of weapons and military equipment, mock-ups, and even prototypes of convertiplanes preparing for the first flight, appear. Both foreign and Russian, created on an initiative basis. And this provokes discussions on the topic " Whether the Russian Army needs these specific aircraft and what they can be useful."

According to a source in the shipbuilding industry, it will be able to carry 48 new Kalibr-PL, Onyx and Zircon missiles.]

The strike capabilities of the multi-purpose nuclear submarine "Irkutsk" of the project 949A "Antey" of the Pacific Fleet (TOF) after modernization will grow at least twice - it will be able to carry 48 new missiles "Kalibr-PL", "Onyx"and " Zircon". This was reported to TASS on Tuesday by a source in the shipbuilding industry.

According to the source, by 2023, six submarines of the project 949A will be repaired according to the technical condition, and the submarine "Irkutsk" will be upgraded according to the project 949AM

The Main Command of the Russian Navy plans to have seven Antey nuclear submarines of projects 949A and 949AM in the submarine forces of the Northern and Pacific Fleets by the end of 2023. This was reported to TASS on Tuesday by a source in the military-industrial complex.

Corvette "Persistent", which in the long March, successfully fulfilled the task of search, detection and elimination of submarines of the conditional opponent.

Together with "Persistent" in the March went average sea tanker "Cola" and sea tug "James Grebelsky".

Nevsky Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Plant LLC (Shlisselburg; part of United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC) announced that it will build two research vessels of Project 17050 for the All-Russian Research Institute of Fisheries and Oceanography (VNIRO).

The Russian Navy included the corvette "Gremyashchy" — the first ship of the project 20385. In the future, it is planned to arm it with hypersonic missiles.

Fly further, hit harder, ignore the opposition-the Americans tested a new modification of the Tomahawk cruise missile-Block V. In the Pacific Ocean, near the Hawaiian Islands, the destroyer Chafee fired at a target at a naval training ground. The US Navy succinctly reported: everything went well. About what is known about Block V and how Russian "Calibers" look against its background - in the material of RIA Novosti.

The launch of the Bulava intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) by a nuclear submarine of the Pacific Fleet on December 12 confirmed the characteristics of this missile, Russian Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov said.

The Israeli company Israel Shipyards on its Linkedin page announced the start of construction of the first of two OPV-45 patrol ships ordered by an unnamed African state, which should be delivered to the customer within the next two years.

Russia's plans to develop hypersonic weapons have provoked panic in NATO countries over Moscow's " aggressive plans." In Europe, however, they are more afraid that it will be destroyed by American defenders, who are afraid of the Russian threat. Does the possession of "hypersound" really give Russia a decisive advantage? And how can the West respond to us if it achieves parity in such weapons?

Tests of the hypersonic missile "Zircon", which this year was conducted by the Northern fleet, confirmed the characteristics of this new weapon, the press service of the fleet said on Friday.

KORABEL web resource.RU published an interesting interview with the acting General Director of PJSC "Amur shipbuilding plant" (ASZ, part of JSC " United shipbuilding Corporation") Mikhail Borovsky.

In the "Independent military review" published an interview with the General Director of JSC "Central design Bureau of marine technology "Rubin" (part of JSC "United shipbuilding Corporation") Igor Vilnit.