News of the fleet

NATO will not reduce military activity around Russia

The Black Sea is once again becoming the scene of Moscow's military deterrence. In the Romanian Constanta, a large – scale military exercise of the North Atlantic Alliance "Sea Shield-2021"is being prepared. It will be attended by more than 2.5 thousand military personnel, 18 ships and support vessels from Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, the Netherlands, Poland, Romania, the United States and Turkey.

Today, on March 26, a large diesel-electric submarine "Magadan" is launched at the Admiralty Shipyards in St. Petersburg. As already reported, it was built according to the project 636.3 of the Central Design Bureau "Rubin" for the Pacific Fleet and will be the third in a series of six similar ships that are assigned to serve on the Far Eastern borders.

The first serial medium sea tanker for the Black Sea Fleet was laid down at the Nevsky Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Plant

The first serial medium sea tanker of the project 21130 for the Black Sea Fleet "Vasily Nikitin" was laid on Friday in Shlisselburg.

[b]They were at a distance of up to 300 m from each other, the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov reported to the President of Russia.]

For the first time in history, three Russian nuclear submarines performed a simultaneous ascent from under the ice at a distance of up to 300 m from each other during an exercise in the Arctic. This was reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.

As reported by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov, the shooting was carried out during the expedition "Umka-21"

A nuclear submarine conducted a torpedo firing from under the ice during the Umka-21 expedition in the Arctic. This was reported to Russian President Vladimir Putin by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy Nikolai Evmenov.

The Defense Ministry has released a video for the first time showing three Russian submarines surfacing in the Arctic, breaking through the ice.

As reported by the newspaper "Kommersant" in the material of Anastasia Vedeneeva, "Siberia" was not immediately built. The delivery of the nuclear icebreaker has been postponed from August to December", the first serial nuclear icebreaker "Siberia" of project 22220 (LK-60YA) will not be delivered in August, the new deadline is December.

Earlier, a TASS source said that state tests of the submarine will begin in May

The special-purpose nuclear submarine "Belgorod" of Project 09852, in addition to the nuclear unmanned underwater vehicles "Poseidon", will be able to carry the AS-15 nuclear deep-water station. This was reported to TASS by a source in the military-industrial complex.

On March 26, 2021, in St. Petersburg, JSC "Admiralty Shipyards "(part of JSC" United Shipbuilding Corporation "- USC) hosted the launch ceremony of the large diesel-electric submarine B-602" Magadan " (factory number 01616) of project 06363, which is under construction for the Russian Navy. It is the third of six Project 06363 submarines under construction for the Pacific Fleet.

Front-line SU-24M bombers and SU-30SM multi-purpose fighters have practiced bombing ground targets at a training ground in the Kaliningrad region, the press service of the Baltic Fleet (BF) reported.

As reported by JSC "United Shipbuilding Corporation" (USC), on March 26, 2021, in Shlisselburg, at LLC "Nevsky Shipbuilding and Ship Repair Plant" (part of the "United Shipbuilding Corporation"), a laying ceremony was held for the Russian Navy of the medium sea tanker project 23130 "Vasily Nikitin" (factory number 902).

The missile frigate of the Black Sea Fleet of the Russian Federation "Admiral Grigorovich" monitors the actions of the aircraft carrier strike group of the US Navy, led by the nuclear aircraft carrier Dwight Eisenhower, which is located in the Eastern Mediterranean, the OSINT-1 resource, which publishes a picture of the location of the ships from the European Copernicus satellite, said in its Twitter.

On March 25, 2021, in Astrakhan, at the shipyard of the Astrakhan Ship Repair Plant branch of JSC "Zvezdochka Ship Repair Center "(part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC), a solemn ceremony was held for the laying of the rescue and towing vessel of project 22870 "Mikhail Chekov" (factory number 021), which is being built by order of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

Russia has conducted a comprehensive expedition in the Arctic. On March 27, the press service of the Russian Defense Ministry published a video of the Umka-21 exercise on its official YouTube channel.

Mi-24 attack helicopters conducted rocket and artillery fire in the Baltic Sea, the press service of the Baltic Fleet (BF) reported.

Russian President Vladimir Putin has successfully tested his new "deadly" Zircon hypersonic missiles, which are capable of reaching targets in the United States in a matter of minutes. This is how the British tabloid Daily Express reacted to the tests that took place in the Arctic.

The Royal Navy of Great Britain has launched the Vixen research program, which can open the design of a deck-based unmanned aerial vehicle. According to Naval Technology, the military plans to use the promising device as an unmanned slave for fighters with a shortened take-off and vertical landing of the F-35B Lightning II, as well as in the role of a tanker.

"United Shipbuilding Corporation" began to face systematic refusals of foreign companies to service already delivered equipment, said the head of the USC Alexey Rakhmanov.

The Russian point of logistics of the Navy in Sudan will become a guarantor of stability in the Red Sea region, said the head of the Federation Council Committee on Defense and Security Viktor Bondarev.

The first issue of the magazine "Arms Export" for 2021 published an interview with Rear Admiral Jihat Yayji-Chief of Staff of the Naval Forces of the Republic of Turkey in 2017-2020. We present to your attention the full text of the conversation.