News of the fleet

The Minister of Defense noted that the Northern Fleet is constantly practicing the use of fighter aircraft from the airfields of the Arctic archipelagos

The development of Russian military infrastructure in the Arctic and on the coast of the Arctic Ocean will continue, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said at a meeting of the board of the military department on Tuesday.

The Northern Fleet will receive almost 250 units of modern weapons in 2021, and its share in the fleet will reach 62.3% by the end of the year, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said.

The Russian Defense Ministry has built a runway for all types of aircraft on the Arctic island of Alexandra Land (Arkhangelsk Region), Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu said on Tuesday.

In the waters of the Baltic Sea on Monday, the traditional spring exercises of NATO minesweepers Open Spirit will start. The exercise will involve 21 ships from 11 countries, including the ships of the First Permanent Mine Action Group of NATO. The Estonian Navy is leading the exercises, the press service of the Ministry of Defense of the Republic reported.

In the Center for Combat Use and Retraining of the flight personnel of the Russian Navy's Naval Aviation in Yeisk, the cadets of the training battalion were released, who completed the training cycle.

Amid tensions between Ukraine and Russia, Britain will send two warships to the Black Sea in May, The Sunday Times reported, citing a representative of the United Kingdom's Ministry of Defense.

The Chinese Navy conducted maneuvers in the South China Sea. On April 17, a video of the PLA Navy carrier strike group led by the aircraft carrier Liaoning in the Western Pacific Ocean, taken from the USS Mustin destroyer of the US Navy, appeared online.

Within the framework of the test tactical exercises, the military personnel of the units of the signal troops and mobile communication nodes (PUS) of the Caspian Flotilla (CFl) organized a stable secure communication between the units, command posts and ships performing tasks at sea ranges.

The Northern Fleet began training exercises involving ships, submarines, aircraft and air defense systems. The main purpose of the maneuvers is to ensure the security of Russia's economic activities in the Arctic, the Russian Defense Ministry said. They noted that during the training, rescue operations, assistance at sea, crisis resolution, as well as the protection and defense of maritime communications will also be practiced.

Formations of the 58th Combined Arms Army of the Southern Military District (SE) have worked out combat training tasks as part of heterogeneous tactical groups at the military training ground "Opuk" in the Crimea, the press service of the SE reported.

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation from April 24 to October 31 will suspend the right of peaceful passage through the territorial sea of the Russian Federation for foreign warships and other state vessels in three areas of the Black Sea. This is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to the bulletin of the Department of Navigation and Oceanography of the Russian Defense Ministry.

US warships will continue to enter the Black Sea, Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said on Friday, April 16. His briefing was broadcast on Twitter by the US Department of Defense.

Also during the exercise, the crews of fighter and bomber aircraft will perform missile launches and bombing of sea targets

As part of the control check, the crews of the Su-25SM3 attack aircraft were relocated from the airfield in the Stavropol Territory to the operational airfields of the Crimea, and the squadron of aircraft was also relocated to the Ashuluk training ground in the Astrakhan region. In total, more than 50 aircraft were involved in these events, the press service of the Southern Military District (SE) reported.

The British continue to build the lead frigate of the latest Type 26 project. On April 16, at the shipbuilding enterprise of the BAE Systems Maritime — Naval Ships division of BAE Systems Corporation in Glasgow (former Yarrow Shipyard), the bow section of the frigate HMS Glasgow was withdrawn from the boathouse.

Two more large landing craft (BDK) Russian Navy - "Kaliningrad" and "Korolev" on Saturday, passing the Bosphorus, entered the Black Sea, said Istanbul sites that publish photos of their passage through the Strait.

Previously, it was assumed that this would happen in May

The carrier of unmanned underwater vehicles "Poseidon" the nuclear submarine "Khabarovsk" of project 09851 will be launched next autumn. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

The ships of the British Fleet will enter the Black Sea. We are talking about a frigate and a destroyer of the Royal Navy of Great Britain, the TV channel "Izvestia"reports.

The French nuclear submarine Perle, which was badly damaged in a fire in June last year, will be able to return to service in three years. However, this will not be quite an ordinary repair: the submarine will be cut in half, the damaged part will be separated from it, and the "healthy" half from the exact same, but decommissioned boat will be installed instead.

As reported by the TASS news agency on April 13, 2021, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu demanded to increase the pace and quality of work during the reconstruction and technical re-equipment of the dry dock of the 35th ship Repair plant located in Murmansk, the project is implemented by the Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center (part of the USC Group of companies).

The project of construction of the destroyer "Leader" for the Russian Navy is unlikely to be implemented, said in an interview with RIA Novosti General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC) Alexey Rakhmanov.