News of the fleet

The US Navy has begun analyzing possible alternatives to the modern MH-60R/Seahawk deck helicopters and the MQ-8B/C FireScout unmanned aerial vehicles. According to Vertical Mag, the life of the Seahawk and FireScout will expire in the 2030s. The military is considering joining the US Army's FVL tender.

The corvette "Stoyky" and the medium sea tanker "Kola", which are on a long trip, pass through the Suez Canal and make the transition through the Red Sea.

The detachment of ships left the main base of the Baltic Fleet in Baltiysk on December 16 to perform tasks as part of the permanent task force of the Russian Navy in the Mediterranean Sea.

The American company Metal Shark was commissioned by the US Marine Corps to develop a long-range robot boat LRUSV. According to Jane's, the agreement with the military also provides for the supply of robocat maintenance vessels, which will be created on the meringue of the Project 40 Defiant patrol ships.

About six units of ships and vessels will receive the Black Sea Fleet, said the Chief of the General Staff of the Navy Alexander Vitko. The composition of the Russian Navy this year is planned to be replenished with more than 40 ships and vessels.

On January 29, 2021, the third universal landing ship of Project 075 under construction for the PLA Navy was removed from the dry construction dock of the Chinese shipbuilding enterprise Hudong-Zhonghua Shipyard of the Hudong-Zhonghua Shipbuilding Group (part of the Shanghai Shipbuilding Association of the Chinese State Shipbuilding Corporation China Shipbuilding State Corporation - CSSC) in Shanghai and towed to the completion wall for completion.

The US Coast Guard Command announced the launch ceremony of the Sentinel – class FRC (Fast Response Cutter) (WPC 1141) "Charles Moulthrope" (Charles Moulthrope), which took place at the Portsmouth base.

State tests of "Zircons" will be completed in 2021

On Friday, the Ministry of Defense held a Single day of acceptance of military equipment. About what weapons, military and special equipment entered the troops in 2020 and what weapons the army and navy expect in the near future, says "Газета.Ru".

The ships are supposed to be equipped with Kalibr-NK complexes

Three more ships of the Buyan-M project, which are supposed to be equipped with Kalibr-NK complexes, are under construction, Renat Mistakhov, General Director of Ak Bars Shipbuilding Corporation, said on Saturday during the flag-raising ceremony on the new Grayvoron Black Sea Fleet ship in Sevastopol.

The Black Sea Fleet (BSF) will be provided with six warships and four auxiliary vessels by the end of the year. This was announced on Saturday, January 30, by the commander of the Black Sea Fleet, Vice Admiral Igor Osipov.

The new ship will mainly operate in the seas of the Arctic Ocean as part of the Arctic group of the Northern Fleet

The large landing ship (BDK) "Peter Morgunov", built at the Baltic Shipyard "Yantar" (part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation), completed the interbase transition from the Baltic and arrived at the main base point in the Northern Fleet - Severomorsk. This was reported on Friday by the press service of the Northern Fleet.

The NASIC report reflects either chaos in the US intelligence community, or ignorance of the situation

The US Air Force's National Air and Space Intelligence Center (NASIC) earlier this year published a report on threats to the United States from ballistic and cruise missiles from China, Iran, North Korea and Russia. Military observer " of the Newspaper.En " Mikhail Khodarenok dealt with the details of the document, which allows us to assess the potential of the world's largest nuclear powers.

Russian shipbuilders held a ceremony of launching a new patrol ship of the project 22160. He became the fourth representative of the series.

A group of four US B-52H Stratofortress strategic bombers has arrived at Andersen Air Base on the US island of Guam in the western Pacific, the US Pacific Air Force Command said.

The Drive rated the first electric torpedo created in Russia since the Cold War

The attention of The Drive portal was attracted by the news that an electric torpedo successfully passed state tests in Russia. This was recently announced by the General Director of the corporation "Tactical Missile Weapons" Boris Obnosov.

The next stage of the joint maneuvers will involve one of the Russian frigates

The mobile coastal anti-ship missile system (BPKRK) "Bastion" as part of the exercise made a march to the positional area on the territory of Crimea, the Black Sea Fleet (Black Sea Fleet) said on Thursday.

The unfinished missile cruiser "Ukraine" of the Atlant project became a "suitcase without a handle"for Ukraine itself.

Throughout independence, all governments alternately passed this "passing pennant" to each other, promising to sell it abroad, since this burden is too heavy for the budget and the cruiser does not fit into the structure of the fleet.

The merger of French and Italian shipbuilding companies, scheduled for January this year, will not take place. On January 27, the governments of France and Italy released a joint statement on the cancellation of the acquisition by the Italian shipbuilding holding Fincantieri of the French shipyards Chantiers de l'Atlantique (formerly STX France), located in the city of Saint-Nazaire.

For the first time, the Northern Fleet held a comprehensive training to repel an enemy drone attack on a protected object.

On the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Navy, a joint exercise of Naval aviation forces with a coastal missile system with an anti-ship missile (BPKRK) "Bal" was conducted to destroy a simulated enemy ship.

Last Saturday, January 23, China held a "dress rehearsal" of the war with the United States over Taiwan, writes Forbes. Thus, the American magazine commented on the sending of H-6K bombers equipped with YJ-12 anti-ship missiles by Beijing towards the island.