News of the fleet

As reported, for a year and a half after launching, the border patrol ship Rasul Gamzatov (the 14th and last in the Project 22460 series), which is being defended at the Almaz Shipbuilding Company in St. Petersburg and has not yet been put into operation, received a new combat module on the forecastle, which the previous ships of this project were not equipped with.

The newest corvette of the project 20386 " Mercury "is the first of the Russian ships to be built entirely according to the"stealth" concept. This was told to RIA Novosti by two knowledgeable sources.

For the implementation of the project, a state order is needed, said the company's General director Alexey Rakhmanov

Design bureaus and enterprises belonging to the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) are able to develop and build underwater robotic systems for the protection of the Arctic shelf and drilling platforms.

At the same time, the corporation called the issue of import substitution in the production of gas turbine units for Russian frigates of project 22350 by the engine-building company UEC-Saturn completely resolved.

The specialists of the search and rescue support of the Northern Fleet returned to the main base of the Northern Fleet - the city of Severomorsk after the Russian-Norwegian rescue exercise "Barents-2021".

It took place in the Barents Sea. Representatives of the two countries practiced joint actions there to search for and evacuate conditionally in distress at sea, deliver them to rescue ships and provide medical assistance.

Russian Project 20386 corvettes of the Mercury type may face the same problems as American coastal warships of the Freedom and Independence types, writes The National Interest.

President of Ukraine Volodymyr Zelensky said that during meetings with the head of the US State Department Anthony Blinken and US senators, they discussed increasing military assistance to Ukraine, as well as strengthening security in the Black and Azov Seas.

The Black Sea Fleet has received the newest small sea tanker "Vice-Admiral Ferries". The St. Andrew's flag was raised on it. The lead vessel of the project 03182 is capable of solving the tasks of supplying ships and vessels, as well as performing rescue functions.

The crew of the diesel-electric submarine "Magadan" of project 636.3 (code "Varshavyanka") provides the final stage of mooring tests of the DAPL, in which the delivery team of the "Admiralty Shipyards" participates.

In the Northern Fleet, more than 20 warships and submarines, about ten aircraft and helicopters will be involved in the exercise of diverse forces to protect Russia's maritime borders in the Arctic. They began on Monday in the Barents Sea.

A series of small marine tankers of project 03182 will be built for the Russian Navy, which will join the auxiliary fleet.

Serial deliveries of new-generation S-500 Prometheus air defense systems and Zircon hypersonic missiles will soon begin, Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov told Interfax.

The new-generation S-500 Prometheus air defense systems and the Zircon hypersonic missiles will soon be mass-delivered to the military units of the Russian army. This was stated at the St. Petersburg International Economic Forum by Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov.

The active phase of mooring tests began on the oceanographic research vessel "Eugene Goriglejan", which is being built at the Baltic shipyard" Yantar " in Kaliningrad.

The crew of the world's oldest ship "Commune" of the Black Sea Fleet (it traces its history back to the Imperial Russian Navy) successfully tested the underwater inhabited search and rescue vehicle AS-28 at sea.

The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) will deliver nine ships to the Russian Navy in 2021, the head of the USC, Alexey Rakhmanov, said.

On June 1, at the Vympel shipyard in Rybinsk, a solemn ceremony of launching the latest naval transport of weapons "Gennady Dmitriev" project 20360M was held.

JSC "Baltic Shipbuilding Plant "Yantar" (PSZ, part of the USC) is seeking to obtain new contracts under the State Defense Order, General Director of the enterprise Ilya Samarin told Interfax.

Sudan's decision to renegotiate the agreement on the construction of a logistics point for the Russian Navy may be caused by pressure from the United States, which probably threatens Khartoum to return it to the list of terrorist states, the vice-president of the League of Military Diplomats (Russia) told RIA Novosti on Wednesday.) Vladimir Vinokurov.

The second serial frigate "Admiral Golovko" of project 22350, which is under construction at the Northern Shipyard (part of the USC), has completed the installation and electrical installation of the bow and stern main switchboards (GRSH) and power supply panels from the shore.