News of the fleet

A group of ships of the Caspian Flotilla (CFl) of the Southern Military District (SE) and the Naval Forces (Navy) of the Republic of Kazakhstan destroyed air targets in the Caspian Sea as part of a joint naval exercise, the press service of the SE reported on Saturday.

Inherited from the times of the Soviet Union, the weapons have well prepared Russia for the fight for the Arctic, writes the National Interest. According to the author of the article, Robert Farley, Moscow was preparing to confront the West during the Cold War, using the territory of the Arctic. The accumulated experience and a variety of weapons allowed her to acquire a "deadly set of capabilities" in case "something unthinkable" happens in the Arctic Ocean.

The Guards missile cruiser "Moscow" and the frigate" Admiral Grigorovich " returned to Sevastopol after performing planned naval combat exercises in the Black Sea, the Black Sea Fleet said.

There are "truly impressive photos" that show the recent joint exercises Ragnar Viking of the Royal Navy (Navy) of the United Kingdom, the Navy (Navy) and the Marine Corps (Marine Corps) of the United States, as well as the French Navy and the Royal Norwegian Navy, writes The Drive.

The sailors performed firing from artillery installations at air targets

The Guards missile cruiser "Moscow" and the frigate "Admiral Grigorovich" of the Black Sea Fleet (CHM) conducted exercises in the Black Sea to search for a submarine and track it, the press service of the Black Sea Fleet said on Saturday.

The main threat to the UK is Russia, British Defense Minister Ben Wallace said in an interview with The Telegraph.

An amphibious landing group of US Navy ships, having passed Gibraltar, entered the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, British observers who publish their photos reported in social networks.

The crew of the large landing ship of the Northern Fleet "Ivan Gren" worked out in difficult weather conditions the landing of a marine landing on an unequipped coast. This was reported by the press service of the SF.

" The exercise was held in the Motovsky Bay of the Barents Sea. In addition to the landing ship, BTR-80 and BTR-82A armored personnel carriers of the separate brigade of the Northern Fleet Marine Corps were involved in it," the press service informed. They added that this naval amphibious operation was the first in the Arctic practice of the BDK team.

The state tests of the hypersonic missile "Zircon" from the frigate "Admiral Gorshkov" will be held in June this year. This was announced on Thursday, May 20, TASS reports, citing sources in the military-industrial complex.

The patrol ship of the Black Sea Fleet "Vasily Bykov" is making a planned transition from the Black Sea to the Mediterranean Sea, currently the crew of the ship has passed the Black Sea Bosphorus Strait and is passing the Dardanelles Strait, said the head of the information support Department of the Black Sea Fleet, Captain 2nd rank Alexey Rulev.

In the connection of the ships of the protection of the water area of the Primorsky Flotilla of the heterogeneous forces of the Pacific Fleet, a complex exercise was conducted to disguise ships at the base point and eliminate chemical contamination on one of the missile boats.

A small missile ship of the Baltic Fleet repelled the attack from the water and sky.

In accordance with the combat training plan of the MRK "Geyser" of the Baltic Naval Base, it was supposed to perform artillery firing on sea and air targets.

The Ministry of Defense will deploy a squadron of Su-34 fighter-bombers at the airfields of the Franz Josef Land and Novosibirsk Islands archipelagos. Special infrastructure is already being built for the base, sources in the department told Izvestia.

A representative of the command of the Eastern Military District of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA) on Wednesday protested in connection with the next passage of a US warship through the Taiwan Strait.

The United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) is ready to build diesel submarines for the Russian Baltic Fleet, which, according to the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov, is planned to be strengthened.

The Northern Fleet has formed a group to participate in the next complex expedition to Novaya Zemlya. Together with the military sailors, specialists of the 12th Main Directorate of the Ministry of Defense and representatives of the Murmansk regional branch of the Russian Geographical Society will travel around the Southern Island of the archipelago on the icebreaker Ilya Muromets, the military department said.

In the Kaliningrad Region, training of naval aviation of the Baltic Fleet has begun, in which three home-based airfields are involved at once.

The crews of the vessels of the Hydrographic Service of the Black Sea Fleet (BSF) have completed pilotage work on the revision and replacement of floating warning signs in the sea areas of the fleet's bases in the Crimea and on the Caucasus coast.

"Arctic shamrock" - the second unique residential complex of a closed cycle, built in the interests of the Northern Fleet in the high-latitude areas of the Arctic

Thirty journalists from the United Kingdom, Germany, Spain, China, the United States, France and Japan were able to see for the first time the base "Arctic Shamrock" and a demonstration training of calculations of coastal missile systems "Bastion" on Franz Josef Land, reports TASS correspondent.

As the well-known observer of underwater vehicles and special means H. I. Sutton reports on his resource "Covert Shores", more information is gradually emerging about small submarines being built in Italy for the Qatari navy. It is known that the contract worth 190 million euros provides for the supply of two small submarines to Qatar and the corresponding training of personnel.