News of the fleet

The SRV-8X Optimus underwater rover is an updated and technologically more advanced version of its predecessor SRV-8, developed by the Austro-German company Oceanbotics.

Daily Mail: a new division of submarines with Poseidons will be formed in Russia

Russia will respond to the actions of the West by forming a new division of nuclear submarines in Kamchatka, which will be equipped with Poseidon nuclear torpedoes, writes the Daily Mail. In Britain, they recognized that weapons can cause "great damage" to the country.

The Atlantic: Russia and China have deprived the United States of naval dominance

China and Russia have deprived the United States of its former naval dominance, writes The Atlantic. Without its revival, America cannot expect to regain its dominant role in the world. On the way to this is the industrial decline and the miscalculations of its strategists, who squandered resources on foreign adventures.

Foreign Affairs: the conflict in Ukraine has shown how the US is not ready for war with China

The US military-industrial complex is collapsing due to the Ukrainian conflict, which revealed the systemic shortcomings of the American military industry, writes Foreign Affairs. Drastic changes are needed in this area, otherwise America will lose the war with China in the first few weeks, the author of the article believes.

Presumably, the division will be formed in the first half of 2025

The division of special-purpose submarines - carriers of Poseidon super torpedoes - is planned to be formed as part of the submarine forces of the Pacific Fleet by the end of 2024 - beginning of 2025. This was reported to TASS by a source close to the Russian military department.

The US Federal Prosecutor's Office said that three men from Alabama organized a multimillion-dollar accounting fraud scheme at a defense contractor that builds ships for the US Navy.

Even before joining NATO, Sweden and Finland acquired high military potential

During the Cold War, the neutrality of the two Scandinavian countries looked different. Finland, in fact, was in the Soviet sphere of influence, although it was not going to build socialism. Sweden took a much more pro-Western position, while it managed to become one of only five countries in the world that produced almost all military equipment for themselves. Except that Sweden has not created nuclear weapons, although such attempts have been made.

A crucial stage in the development of a multifunctional weapon system for the US Navy

The creation of the Aegis multifunctional weapon system has become a landmark event in the history of the American Navy and has significantly increased their capabilities for the combat use of various types of naval weapons, but primarily anti–aircraft and anti-missile.

Ballistic missile strikes may be more dangerous

The strong explosion that thundered on the afternoon of March 26 in Kireevsk, fortunately, was not accompanied by the destruction of residential buildings, but only left behind a deep crater. In it, experts found the wreckage of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) of the Tu-141 "Strizh" type, converted from a high-altitude reconnaissance aircraft into a low-flying aerial bomb carrier.

Singapore Defense Industry Company Singapore Technologies Engineering Ltd. On March 27, 2023, ST Engineering announced that its shipbuilding division ST Engineering Marine had received a contract from the Ministry of National Defense of Singapore for the technical design and construction of six promising large multipurpose ships (frigates) for the Singapore Navy under the Multi-Role Combat Vessel (MRCV) program. The commissioning of the lead ship is scheduled for 2028.

On March 29, the official ceremony of launching the lead of 12 minesweepers ordered as part of a project jointly implemented by the Ministry of Defense of Belgium and the Netherlands took place at the shipyard in Concarneau.

Operated by the Naval Forces of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA), the WZ-7 drone was built by Guizhou Aircraft Corporation. His external analysis showed that the initial version of the WZ-7 for the Air Force is similar to the role of the Northrop Grumman RQ-4 Global Hawk of the US Air Force, a long-range drone capable of providing reconnaissance, surveillance and reconnaissance.

In the USA, they reported on the tests of a hypersonic missile. The flight was unsuccessful. Americans have not been able to create their own "new generation weapons" for more than two decades. About the main difficulties — in the material of RIA Novosti.

The American company Raytheon Technologies has completed the delivery of all 23 low-speed Joint Precision Approach and Landing Systems (JPAL) units for the US Navy ahead of schedule. The contract for the development and supply of equipment was concluded in 2019.

German shipbuilders have completely switched to submarines with an anaerobic installation

The Type 209 is formally retained in the product line of the marine department of the German concern ThyssenKrupp. However, there are no more orders from German shipbuilders for this very successful and the most perfect diesel-electric submarine project of all time.

Americans promise, Israelis bargain, Serbs cooperate

Long-term negotiations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the purchase of American MQ-9B Sea Guardian drones are at an advanced stage, the heads of the manufacturing company General Atomics said at the IDEX arms exhibition in Abu Dhabi.

Huanqiu shibao: Russia has opened up new opportunities in the Arctic thanks to the break with the West

The rupture of relations between Russia and the West has also affected the situation in The Arctic, writes "Huanqiu shibao". Moscow has realized that traditional mechanisms of cooperation in a region dominated by NATO members are useless. She decided to shift the focus, and this opened up new perspectives for her.

As the Kommersant newspaper reported in the material of Tatiana Dyatel and Dmitry Kozlov, "Russia" does not give up. The price and timing of the release of a nuclear icebreaker may change," the cost of building a super-powerful nuclear icebreaker "Russia" of project 10510 (LK-120YA, cipher "Leader"), previously amounting to 128 billion rubles, may increase by 40-60%, and the timing of its construction may shift to the right.

For the first time, exercises were conducted in Turkey with a marine drone armed with a guided cruise missile. The MARLIN marine drone entered a given area of the water area, took a position for a rocket launch, after which the rocket was launched at a given target.

The US Navy plans to reopen four dry docks for submarine repairs located at shipyards in Washington State. This is reported by the military analytical magazine Defense News. The first dock will start working in April, the second — in May, and the third is planned to start using in June this year.