News of the fleet

Severnaya Verf carried out the technological launch of the Mercury corvette. It happened in March, but it became known about it only now.

According to the newspaper "Sea News of Russia", after 2030, Russia can continue to build up the nuclear icebreaker fleet. And in particular, to build four icebreakers: two nuclear-powered vessels of the project 22220 type "Arctic" and two vessels of the project 10510 type "Leader".

As the Kommersant newspaper reports in the article by Anastasia Vedeneeva, " Nuclear icebreakers will find a dock in Turkey. Kyzey Star will build it for Atomflot for 5 billion rubles, " the Turkish shipyard Kyzey Star Shipyard became the winner of the competition for the construction of a floating dock for 5 billion rubles for nuclear icebreakers of Atomflot.

On Tuesday, the Pacific Fleet frigate Marshal Shaposhnikov launched a Kalibr cruise missile at a ground target for the first time. This shooting was conducted by the crew of the ship from the waters of the Sea of Japan.

The press service of the Pacific Fleet reported that at the estimated time, the missile successfully hit the target position at the test site in the area of Cape Surkum. The range of fire at the same time exceeded 1 thousand kilometers.

The project 636.3 diesel-electric submarine Magadan, built at the Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg, will go to sea for sea trials in June. This was reported in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation. After a thorough check of all systems and mechanisms, the new submarine will be transferred to the Navy's combat staff. According to the general director of the manufacturer Alexander Buzakov, this should happen before November 25 this year.

It is reported that at the beginning of March 2021, in St. Petersburg, PJSC "Shipbuilding Plant "Severnaya Verf" (as part of JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation"), a technical launch of the hull of the project 20386 Mercury corvette under construction for the Russian Navy (former "Daring", factory number 1009) was made without publicity.

The underwater vehicle will then be returned to combat readiness

The repair of the nuclear underwater habitable vehicle AS-31 (unofficial name "Losharik") will last up to four years. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

It is planned to complete the test cycle of the special-purpose nuclear submarine "Belgorod" by September. - The boat has a reactor running, mooring tests are underway. Then there will be factory and state ones. By September, Belgorod should complete the entire test cycle, " a source in the military-industrial complex told RIA Novosti.

During the factory sea trials, the Vsevolod Bobrov logistics support vessel was tested by towing a vessel of equal displacement. The operation in the Gulf of Finland lasted four hours.

Japan and Indonesia have signed an agreement on the transfer of defense technologies and the intensification of cooperation in the field of defense industry. The agreement was signed in Tokyo on March 30 by the foreign and defense ministers of the two countries.

The task of destroying a detachment of warships of a simulated enemy was fulfilled at the exercises by the calculations of the Bastion coastal missile systems( DBK), the Baltic Fleet (BF) said on Monday.

The crews of two submarines off the coast of the Kaliningrad region attacked and counterattacked each other with the mutual use of weapons and sonar equipment.

The logistics support vessel Vsevolod Bobrov of Project 23120, built at the Severnaya Verf (part of JSC USC), completed the first stage of factory sea trials in the designated area of the Gulf of Finland and returned to Kronstadt for resupply.

Rosgvardiya special forces stormed a ship captured by criminals during an exercise in the Arctic, the press service of the ministry told reporters on Friday.

According to the newspaper" Kommersant "in the material of Anastasia Vedeneeva and Alexander Dremlyugin, Rostec will part with the" Sea". The Crimean shipyard will be transferred to USC , and the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) will include another shipyard - the Feodosiya Sea, which now belongs to Rostec. The timing and mechanism of the transfer are still unknown.

As reported by the TASS news agency on March 31, 2021, specialists of the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation) in Severodvinsk completed an operation to unload the core of a nuclear reactor from the AS-31 underwater habitable vehicle (unofficial name "Losharik"). This was reported to TASS by a source close to the military department.

The Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy has begun a control check of the forces stationed in the Crimea and in the Krasnodar Territory during the winter training period. This was reported by the press service of the Black Sea Fleet.

In April, the crew of the new diesel submarine "Magadan", which is built for the Pacific Fleet (TOF) of Russia, will arrive in St. Petersburg, the Russian Defense Ministry said on Friday.

The American nuclear-powered aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower ("Dwight Eisenhower"), having passed the Suez Canal, entered the Red Sea, which is part of the area of responsibility of the US Central Command, the Egyptian information site Cairo24 reported.

Russian warships conducted live-fire exercises in the Sea of Japan, the Pacific Fleet said on Saturday.