News of the fleet

India plans to sign agreements with France on the purchase of 26 Rafale-M carrier-based fighters and three additional Scorpen submarines by January 2025.

Turkey is solemnly reporting on new tests of the world's first aircraft carrier for UAVs, the Anadolu UDC. The famous Turkish drone Bayraktar TB3, a version with a folding wing, took off from the deck of this ship for the first time. This event should rather make us happy. Why should Russia hardly repeat such an experiment?

In response to the Western maneuvers, Bastion coastal missile systems have worked out the tactics of using weapons on the coast of the Gulf of Finland

The Russian armed forces are closely monitoring the exercises of other countries near their borders, and the NATO Pikne (Lightning) maneuvers in Estonia, which began on December 2, are no exception, military experts interviewed by Izvestia told.

As explained in the Italian companies Drass and Leonardo, in the context of the movement of marine threats from deep-sea areas to coastal and shallow waters, they decided to join forces to create a small-sized attack submarine.

At the moment, the Belgian and Dutch Navies have contracted 12 mine defense ships (MCM) and one hundred unmanned vehicles [to them]. The new company will be responsible for fulfilling this order.

China's desire to become a full-scale naval power with a powerful naval aviation is in the focus of Western military analysts.  The emergence of new information about aircraft carriers and aircraft of the Naval Forces of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA Navy) has provided food for further research on the likely role of these funds and Beijing's intentions to integrate them into a broader fleet.

Germany is preparing to make one of the most important decisions regarding the development of the armed forces. The Bundestag is moving towards approving the purchase of a series of last-generation frigates of the F127 type and 4 U212CD submarines as part of the implementation of the fleet expansion plan.

The United States is updating and modernizing the nuclear triad, according to the Roscongress report, which is available to RIA Novosti.

At the end of World War II, the U.S. Navy had more than 6,000 active ships in service, in 1987 – 590, currently - 297. At the same time, the United States lost the first place in terms of fleet size to China, which has 370 pennants.

The transfer of the lead improved frigate of project 11356 to India and the raising of the flag of the national Navy on it will take place in Kaliningrad on December 9.