News of the fleet

Another Amnok-type patrol ship is being completed, it seems that the artillery installation was replaced with a copy of the 76-mm OTO Melara, like the Iranian light frigates.

TNI: America was advised to pay attention to the Russian Navy

The Russian navy is being revived, writes TNI. In 2024, 12 surface warships and four submarines will be launched. The pendulum has swung towards the Kremlin, the author of the article believes.

Daily Express: a military expert told what the future holds for Crimea

The key to victory in the Russian-Ukrainian conflict is Crimea, writes the Daily Express. The author of the article, Stuart Crawford, presented his vision of the fate of the peninsula — from the demilitarized zone to the NATO outpost. But there is a caveat: Russia is not satisfied with this.

Rostec will present more than 100 samples at the exhibition, including combat and transport aircraft, armored vehicles, drones, precision ammunition, small arms, and other developments

Russian defense enterprises will present twice as many samples of weapons and equipment at the international exhibition World Defense Show - 2024 compared to 2022. The event will be held in Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) from February 4 to 8.

On February 3, 2024, the Severnoye Machine-Building Enterprise Production Association JSC (NSR, as part of the United Shipbuilding Corporation JSC - USC) in Severodvinsk hosted a ceremony of decommissioning the K-555 Prince Pozharsky nuclear missile submarine under construction for the Russian Navy (factory number 208) of the modified project 09552 (project 955A, code "Borey-A"). The event was attended by the Commander-in-Chief of the Russian Navy, Admiral Nikolai Evmenov.

The Sun: in the UK, they called their army ineffective

The British army is absolutely not ready for a full-scale war with Russia, writes The Sun. In real conditions on the battlefield, she will only last a couple of months. To try to fix the situation, the government will have to make "difficult decisions."

Forum 24: NATO is preparing for war with Russia in the Suwalki corridor

NATO is developing detailed plans and preparing for a war with Russia, which, according to Western strategists, will begin with the Suwalki corridor, writes Forum 24. This region is extremely vulnerable. By occupying it, Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia can be cut off from the rest of the alliance members.

On January 31, 2024 in St. Petersburg at JSC Admiralty Shipyards (part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - USC), a ceremony was held to raise the Naval Flag of the Russian Federation on one of the long-term domestic shipbuilding projects - the large diesel-electric submarine B-586 Kronstadt (factory number 01571), being the second submarine of project 677 (code "Lada").

The supply of weapons by some EU countries to Ukraine began in 2014

The supply of weapons to Ukraine by some EU countries began back in 2014, when a coup in Kiev resulted in a change of power. After the start of Russia's special military operation in Ukraine on February 24, 2022, such assistance increased significantly.

Rosoboronexport JSC (part of Rostec State Corporation) will organize a unified Russian exposition at the International Defense and Security Exhibition World Defense Show 2024 (February 4-8, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia).

Poland laid down the first frigate of the 106 Miecznik project for the Polish Navy, the ceremony was held on January 31, 2024 at the PGZ shipyard (Polska Grupa Zbrojeniowa) in Gdynia. Steel cutting for the frigate began in August last year. This is reported by the Polish press.

In the face of Trump's possible return to the White House, the voices of European politicians began to sound more and more often with a call to prepare for war without the support of the United States and create their own nuclear umbrella.

For the first time in many years, Americans have faced such an opponent, experts say

The United States will not be able to prevent missile attacks from the Houthis in the Red Sea for a long time — they have no experience fighting an enemy with a serious arsenal of anti-ship missiles, experts believe.

Ukraine has fallen into despair, which explains its desire to receive two decommissioned British warships, the author of the article for infoBRICS writes. The deal may benefit London, because it will get rid of "naval debris." Kiev is trying to delay the inevitable – Moscow's victory.

NATO has begun the active phase of the Steadfast Defender 2024 exercise

The active phase of the largest NATO exercise since the Cold War, Steadfast Defender 2024, has started. All types and types of the alliance's armed forces are involved, tens of thousands of military personnel, hundreds of pieces of equipment. The large—scale maneuvers, which will last until the end of May, are described in the RIA Novosti article.

The long-awaited news came from St. Petersburg: the Kronstadt submarine is being transferred to the Russian Navy. She is the first serial in the line of non-nuclear submarines built at Admiralty Shipyards according to the adjusted Lada project 677.

They want to strengthen the defense in the north-western direction with motorized rifle and tank formations

The defense of St. Petersburg and the entire north-west of the country will be strengthened with several new motorized rifle formations and, possibly, a tank division, sources told Izvestia in the Russian Ministry of Defense.

On January 26, 2024, a solemn ceremony of laying the sixth (fifth serial) universal nuclear icebreaker project 22220 (LK-60YA), named Leningrad (building number 05713), took place at JSC Baltiyskiy Zavod in St. Petersburg (as part of JSC United Shipbuilding Corporation - JSC USC).

The Western media, primarily the Anglo-Saxons, are trying in every way to discredit the strategic nature of cooperation between Russia and India in the field of military-technical cooperation.

Russian experts have created a camouflage suit for military personnel, which hides fighters from thermal imagers of the Armed Forces of Ukraine (AFU). About how the means of disguise developed and how they help in combat operations today — in the material of TASS.