News of the fleet

The IDF remains in the top five of the strongest armed forces

Since its formation in 1947, Israel has been surrounded by hostile Arab States, with which it has fought six times – not counting the permanent war against the Palestinians on its own territory. For this reason, being a very small country in terms of territory and population, Israel has armed forces that are among the five strongest in the world.

"Where the King is going is a big secret"

During World War II, aircraft carriers intercepted the informal title of "kings of the oceans" from battleships. And they seem to keep it to this day. Americans were and still are at the head of this "kingdom".

Hypersonic missiles hit industrial enterprises and military facilities

The Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation (MO RF) has confirmed the fact of regular launches of high-speed air launch missiles at facilities of the Ukrainian military-industrial complex (MIC). According to the department's summary for January 8, "the group strike was carried out with air and sea-based weapons, including the Kinzhal hypersonic missile system.

Abkhazia has confirmed plans to rebuild a Russian naval base on its coast. Why did the need for this arise right now and what significance will the new base of the ships of the Black Sea Fleet have for solving the strategic tasks of our country in the region?

Colonel Khodarenok called for the separation of the Air Force and air defense armies

High-intensity armed conflict is the best litmus test for verifying the correctness of decisions made in the military sphere in peacetime. Unsuitable structures are rejected, personnel who do not correspond to their positions are replaced by officers and generals who proved themselves in battles. What priority changes are needed by the Russian army against the background of ITS own - in the material of the military observer "Gazeta.En" by Mikhail Khodarenka.

It is reported that on December 29, 2023, in Vysotsk on the Baltic Sea, a flag-raising ceremony was held for border ships, boats and support vessels on the border patrol ship of the 2nd rank Ufa of project 22120 (code "Blizzard") with factory number 059 (tail number "459"), which became part of the Coast Guard of the Border Service The FSB of the Russian Federation.The ship was built at Almaz Shipbuilding Company JSC in St. Petersburg and became the tenth ship in the series of Project 22120. Ufa will move to the Pacific Ocean and will be based at Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky.

Admiral Nikolai Evmenov, Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, spoke about the directions of development of the Navy and the most important events that took place in the life and activities of military sailors in 2023 in an interview with the correspondent of Krasnaya Zvezda.

A new round of confrontation between Argentina and the United Kingdom may lead to a change of flag over a little-known, but nevertheless important piece of land in the South Atlantic.

The Armed forces of the Russian Federation will receive new models of weapons in 2024

The special military operation greatly influenced the plans of the leadership of the Ministry of Defense to rearm the army. About which programs are now a priority — in the material of RIA Novosti.

Colonel Khodarenok: in 2024, the Russian Armed Forces will try to cut off Ukraine from the Black Sea

One of the most important operational and strategic results of the summer-autumn campaign of 2023 is the disruption of the offensive operation of the Armed Forces of Ukraine. How events on the fronts will develop in the first half of 2024, the military observer of Gazeta analyzed.En" Mikhail Khodarenok.

In theory, there may be submarines that will prowl the water surface, launch drones and hit targets with artillery fire, anti-tank missiles and torpedoes. The Rubin Design Bureau implemented this idea in the concept of the BOSS submarine, designed for the border guard service.

The United States has seized almost a million square kilometers of the seabed in the Arctic, Bloomberg reports. And this is an alarming sign for the whole world, because Russia also has its own claims in the region. And sooner or later, the interests of the two countries will clash.

We are second only to China and the United States, bypassing Japan, South Korea and the United Kingdom

In the annual ranking of the world's maritime powers compiled by scientists of the IMEMO RAS, Russia retained the third place, second only to China and the United States. The PRC accounts for 15.9% of the total maritime potential of all powers, the United States — 15.5%, Russia — 6.8%, according to the study.

The military department noted that the best young specialists who had internships or combined study and work at enterprises of the military-industrial complex are sent to such units.

The development of attack drones, guided bombs, the creation of assault units and other innovations of 2023

Large-scale armed conflicts give dynamics to the development of military art, weapons and equipment. The special operation in Ukraine was no exception. Recently, many new weapons of destruction have appeared, and the methods of warfare have changed.

Following the first of a series of larger missile catamarans of the Shahid Soleimani type, the lead missile catamaran of the Shahid Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis type (Shahid Abu Mahdi Al-Muhandis), or simply "Shahid Abu Mahdi", was accepted into the IRGC Navy on January 6, 2024.

The year 2023 was a time of rapid changes in the Russian army, primarily in terms of the emergence of new types of weapons and significant modernization of old ones. You can specify at least five new weapons systems that are already beginning to play a key role in the fields of special operations.

Anadolu: Germany has sold a record high volume of weapons to EU countries and Ukraine

Germany has set a new record by exporting weapons worth billions of euros, Anadolu reports. Most of the supplies come from the EU and Ukraine. It is noteworthy that at the same time, the German government sought to reduce the export of military equipment and adopt a law on its control.

Reforms have begun in shipbuilding to improve the efficiency and pace of implementation of the state defense order

The Russian Navy continued to actively upgrade its combat personnel in 2023, despite the existing problems with import substitution and sanctions pressure.

The published decisions of the Arbitration Court of the City of Moscow dated October 12, 2023 contain information of interest on the construction of frigates of Project 22350 (type "Admiral of the Fleet of the Soviet Union Gorshkov") for the Russian Navy. The decisions themselves were made regarding the claim of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation against PJSC Shipbuilding Plant Severnaya Verf (St. Petersburg) for the recovery of a penalty in the amount of 240.363 million rubles (with a total claim amount of 4.227562 billion rubles) for the failure to meet the deadlines for the delivery of the third frigate Admiral Golovko (factory number 923) of project 22350. As a result, the claim was denied to the Ministry of Defense.