News of the fleet

On March 24, 2023, the Brazilian shipbuilding enterprise thyssenkrupp Estaleiro Brasil Sul, owned by the German association thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), in Itajai (Santa Catarina State), hosted the laying ceremony for the Brazilian Navy of the lead frigate F 35 Tamandare of the German project MEKO A100 in a series of four units. The ceremony was attended by the Commander of the Brazilian Navy, Admiral Marcos Sampaio Olsen.

The Protestant Church of Sweden is actively preparing for war. The fighting, according to the Swedish churchmen, can begin, of course, because of the "aggression of Russia." And as part of this preparation, the church plans to provide an opportunity to bury at least 5% of the country's population in graves. Who and why invented such obscurantism?

WE: the Russian "Ash" can lead to the defeat of the United States in World War III

The newest generation of Russian submarine forces is well trained and operates modern submarines, writes the Washington Examiner. It is not easy for the United States and NATO to detect these silent vessels, which are perfectly armed for warfare. And the threat emanating from them is extremely high.

New Zealand Defense Minister Andrew Little said that his country intends to cooperate within the framework of AUKUS, a trilateral defense alliance established by the United States, Great Britain and Australia at the end of 2021.

At the Thyssenkrupp Estaleiro Brasil Sul (tkEBS) company in Itajai (Santa Catarina) on March 24, the keel laying ceremony of the head multipurpose frigate of the F200 class "Tamandare" (MEKO A-100MB) took place.

The French authorities plan to double the production of military equipment by the end of 2023 and accelerate the delivery time of VIVT.

The lead diesel-electric submarine of project 677 "Saint Petersburg" will undergo repairs, currently the submarine is already in the Baltic, although the Ministry of Defense did not report on the inter-fleet transfer of the submarine from the Northern Fleet to the Baltic.

The deadlines for laying the fifth and sixth serial nuclear universal icebreakers of the project 22220 "Arctic", the contract for the construction of which in February of this year was received by the Baltic Plant in St. Petersburg. This was told by Maxim Kulinko, Deputy head of the Directorate of the Northern Sea Route of the Rosatom State Corporation.

On the expanded formulation of the concept of "retaliatory strike"

The logic of the global hybrid war forces a decisive revision of the usual formulations of "aggression", "accomplice of aggression", strategies and tactics of retaliatory strikes against the forces opposing Russia. The time for unpunished hybrid nastiness has expired, the consequences for such forces are becoming inescapable.

Fleets of two Pacific archipelagos conduct joint exercises

Philippine President Bongbonga Marcos and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida signed an agreement on cooperation between the defense departments of the two countries. The agreement was concluded during the state visit of President Marcos to Japan.

The arsenals of the GDR And the FRG were at one time very rich

During the Cold War, Soviet propaganda constantly accused the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) of revanchism, attributing to it a desire to "recoup" for the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and regain lost lands in the east.

As the North Korean state news agency KCNA reported on March 24, 2023, from March 21 to March 23, tests were conducted in the DPRK of a "new complex of underwater nuclear strategic strike weapons" "Heir" ("Tsunami"), which is an uninhabited underwater vehicle with a nuclear charge, the task of which is called "stealthy arrival in a submerged position in the area the destruction and destruction of enemy ship groups and large ports by creating a super-powerful radioactive tsunami due to underwater explosions."

The US Navy reported that on March 21, 2023, it handed over to the Egyptian Navy in Alexandria three large Cyclone-type patrol boats withdrawn from their composition - PC 3 Hurricane, PC 6 Sirocco and PC 12 Thunderbolt. The boats arrived in Alexandria on February 12 from their former permanent base in Bahrain, having made a month-long 4,000-mile crossing with mixed American-Egyptian crews around the Arabian Peninsula since January.

On March 22, 2023, Valletta hosted the official ceremony of the entry into the fleet of the Armed Forces of Malta (Maritime Squadron of the Armed Forces of Malta) of the new patrol ship P 71, built at the shipyard of the Italian shipbuilding company Cantiere Navale Vittoria SpA in Adria near Venice. The new ship became the largest unit of the Maltese fleet. It also became the largest ship built by Cantiere Navale Vittoria.

The newest American aircraft carrier of the Gerald R. Ford type, the USS John F. Kennedy (CVN 79), will be transferred to the US Navy a year later than planned. This is reported by USNI News with reference to the plans of Huntington Ingalls Industries (HII).

The Black Sea Fleet officially confirmed the loss in 2022 of the large landing ship "Saratov", struck in the port of Berdyansk during unloading. This was stated by the commander of the Crimean naval base of the Black Sea Fleet Felix Menkov.

According to Defense News, the US Navy presented to Congress a short list of wishes that they would like to see in the military budget for 2024.

The US has supplied Ukraine with an unnamed number of Metal Shark 40 Defiant (40 PB) patrol boats. The first video of the tests on the Dnieper of one of the supplied boats has already appeared on the Network. Up to this point, they have only been reported.

The Times: another attempt to divert the investigation from the true customers of the terrorist attack

The diversion on the "Northern Streams" turns into one of the greatest geopolitical detectives of the XXI century. Fragments of evidence have given rise to many theories, each of which seems even more strange than the previous one, writes The Times.

Orders of Courage were awarded to Russian female servicemen who repelled the attack of Ukrainian drones in Sevastopol. Thanks to the skillful actions of the Black Sea Fleet, the threat of surface drones of the Armed Forces of Ukraine was eliminated in time. How dangerous can such devices be and what is required to fully protect against them?