News of the fleet

From March 16 to 17, the participants of the exercise worked out the formation of an international detachment of warships, as well as joint tactical maneuvering in various formations and combat orders

The Russian frigate Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov made a business call at the Iranian port of Chahbehar after the completion of trilateral naval exercises with the participation of Russia, China and Iran in the waters of the Arabian Sea. This was reported to journalists on Saturday in the press service of the Northern Fleet (SF).

NYT: confrontation in the Black Sea will decrease after the end of the conflict in Ukraine

The crash of an American drone over the Black Sea has increased tensions between the United States and Russia, writes the NYT. Military activity in the region was caused by the conflict in Ukraine, so the likelihood of such incidents will disappear only with its cessation.

Russian submariners will receive three nuclear and two diesel submarines at once in 2023

The Russian Navy will be replenished in 2023 with five new submarines at once — three nuclear and two diesel, after repair and modernization, two more nuclear-powered submarines will return to combat strength. In addition, as Alexey Rakhmanov, General Director of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), told RIA Novosti, it is planned to conclude state contracts for the construction of new series of submarines.

The Australian authorities did not promise the United States to support them in the event of a military conflict around Taiwan in exchange for receiving nuclear submarines (submarines) as part of the AUKUS partnership, Australian Defense Minister Richard Marles told ABC television on Sunday.

Bloomberg: The Arctic has become a strategically important region for Russia and the West

Russia is deploying nuclear submarines in the Arctic, writes Bloomberg. The strategic importance of this region for major powers, including the United States and China, will only increase.

On March 14, 2023, the Ministry of Defense of the Netherlands announced that it would transfer to Ukraine two Alkmaar-type minesweepers (Tripartite project) to be withdrawn from the Dutch fleet as military assistance. Dutch Defense Minister Kaisa Ollongren announced new plans for military assistance to Ukraine during her visit to Odessa and Mykolaiv.

The AFU command is trying to analyze changes in the daily activities of the Russian Black Sea Fleet after the incident with the American drone. Natalia Gumenyuk, the official representative of the operational command "South" of the Ukrainian Armed Forces, gave her comment in the Ukrainian telethon.

Even having retained access to the sea, the Kiev regime will not be able to protect it

The evolution of the Naval Forces of Ukraine after the collapse of the Soviet Union was completely determined by the fact of the general insolvency of the Ukrainian state. In 1991, Kiev failed to privatize the entire Black Sea Fleet, and in 1997, when dividing the fleet, Russia took all the ships and boats that were at least of some value, leaving Ukraine with outright scrap metal (most of it was immediately sent to scrap metal, never entering the Navy). That is, in this case, Moscow fully respected its national interests, and Kiev did not even try to do the same. This was the fundamental difference between the two largest post-Soviet countries.

Poland does not hope for an alliance and is arming itself against the Russian Federation

Poland has managed to be a European superpower in its history, and twice completely disappear from the political map of the world.

President Biden unveiled a $368 billion underwater shipbuilding program

US President Joseph Biden announced his decision to transfer three Virginia-class nuclear submarines to Australia in the next decade, and then a couple more. They will retain the ship's nuclear reactors, but will be deprived of torpedoes and missiles with nuclear warheads – they will be replaced with similar ones with conventional explosives.

Intrigues on the Black Sea have not discouraged the appetite for the Arctic

Attempts by the administration of American President Joseph Biden to accelerate Sweden's entry into NATO have stalled indefinitely. Turkey resisted, which used its right to refuse approval until all the conditions regarding Stockholm's ties with Kurdish separatists were met.

Turkey admitted that it cannot yet make a choice in the situation in which the United States has driven it. Washington demands that its warships be allowed to enter the Black Sea in search of the downed Reaper drone. But by doing this, Ankara will violate the 1936 Montreux Convention, the strict observance of which the Turks have always been proud of. Is there any tools in Washington's arsenal that can force Turkey to violate the Straits Convention?

"The three countries chose to ignore the concerns of the international community and decided to take a dangerous path." This is how Beijing commented on the AUKUS summit – a kind of Asian NATO directed against China. Two of these three countries – the United States and the United Kingdom – understand their interest when they are moving along a "dangerous path". But Australia is being dragged along it, as if to the slaughter.

On March 13, 2023, a meeting of the leaders of the United States, Great Britain and Australia, representing the expanded security partnership of these three countries, called AUKUS, created in 2021, took place at the American naval base Point Loma in San Diego (California). During the meeting, US President Joe Biden, along with Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, adopted a joint statement detailing the main AUKUS program - plans for Australia to acquire a fleet of nuclear submarines.

As reported by the South Korean television company SBS, the Ministry of National Defense of South Korea has begun to study the possibility of designing and building a large ("heavy") aircraft carrier for the South Korean fleet with an estimated standard displacement of more than 50 thousand tons, instead of the previously planned program for the construction of a light aircraft carrier CVX. A large aircraft carrier can be equipped with a deck version of the promising South Korean fighter KAI KF-21.

Daily Express: The British government is not serious enough about the country's defense

The conflict in Ukraine has shown that Britain is not serious about its own defense, writes Lieutenant Colonel Crawford in the Daily Express. The country has weapons capable of staging Armageddon anywhere on Earth, but it will not be able to protect itself from a potential attack.

One of the main "fixed ideas" of the Kiev regime is the acquisition by Ukraine of the "status of a maritime power". Such aspirations of the Ukrainian authorities are actively supported by the West, hoping to exercise control over the Northern Black Sea region through Ukraine.

The Malaysian Navy is considering the possibility of acquiring Turkish ADA-class corvettes (MILGEM project), which can be built as part of the second stage of the Littoral Mission Ship (LMS) Batch II warship procurement program.

Anna Arkayeva — about why Canberra needed its own nuclear submarine fleet and how the country reacts to this initiative

The three-stage plan for Canberra to acquire its own nuclear submarine fleet, announced by the White House on March 14, although it became the number one topic in the Australian media, but hardly everyone was greeted with enthusiasm.

The United States suffered its first losses in the zone of the Russian special operation in Ukraine. The MQ-9 UAV fell into the Black Sea as a result of "unprofessional actions" of the Russian Su-27 fighter, according to the Pentagon. In fact, the actions of the Russian pilot were maximally verified, and the incident itself may mean a change in Russia's entire approach to NATO aviation flights near our borders. How was an American drone destroyed in the Black Sea?