News of the fleet

Germany and India are close to signing an agreement on Berlin's participation in a project to supply non-nuclear submarines to the Indian navy, the Hindustan Times newspaper reports.

The first modernized Boeing E-6 Mercury aircraft has entered service with the US Navy, designed to maintain communication and control the President of the country's nuclear submarine fleet, other strategic and non-strategic forces of the army in crisis situations. Work on the modernization of the presidential board over the past year was carried out by specialists of the American company Northrop Grumman Corporation (NGC), according to the online publication Breaking Defense.

High North News: the American aircraft carrier, which went towards Russia, disappeared

Recently, the USS Gerald R. Ford, the world's largest military aircraft carrier, arrived in Norway, High North News reports. However, after his departure from Oslo, "silence reigned": the ship does not send any signals. One thing is known: the aircraft carrier was heading towards Russia.

According to the Indonesian media, on the afternoon of June 3, 2023, a large fire occurred on board the medium landing ship of the Indonesian Navy Teluk Hading (tail number "538", the former ship of the GDR Cottbus fleet of Project 108, acquired in 1994). The fire occurred 8 miles from the port of Bira on Sulayar Island, South Sulawesi Province, while the ship was traveling on a transport flight from Jakarta to West Papua.

The submarine can move from the Baltic to the Pacific Ocean using the Northern Sea Route

The Pacific Fleet will be strengthened with a "black hole" — this is what experts call the 636.3 Ufa diesel submarine, which will become part of the Pacific Fleet in the fall of this year.

Naval tactical groups of the Fleet left their bases and deployed naval groups of the fleet in designated areas of the Baltic Sea

The Baltic Fleet has attracted up to 40 ships and over 3.5 thousand military personnel to operational exercises at sea and at training grounds in the Kaliningrad region. This was reported to journalists in the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation.

On June 2, the Vladimir crab boat was launched in Rybinsk, Yaroslavl Region.

The DAMEN CCa5712LS project vessel, factory number 01202, was built under the federal investment program "Quotas for Keel" by order of Merlion LLC (Vladivostok) at the Nobel Brothers Shipyard.

The Baltic Fleet of the Russian Navy risks facing a new threat in the coming years: Poland has announced its intention to upgrade its submarine fleet. Which submarines best meet the conditions of the Baltic Sea, why will Warsaw actually buy others and by what method will Russia be able to fight them?

US Air Force Colonel Tucker Hamilton reported on a computer simulation of the use of a combat drone controlled by artificial intelligence, during which the AI attacked the operator and the communications tower itself. Soon the US Air Force refuted the experiment, but experts did not believe it and pointed out the danger of actually conducting such experiments. As a result, this story raised a number of ethical questions for the experts.

Military expert Dandykin: The US is worried about the construction of the nuclear icebreaker fleet of the Russian Federation

On June 1, military expert Captain of the 1st rank of the reserve Vasily Dandykin commented to Izvestia on the information of The New York Times newspaper that climate change accelerates and intensifies competition in the Arctic of Russia, China and the West, while the United States fears that Moscow will inflict a "red right hook" on Washington in this region.

The alignment of military forces determines the actions of politicians

A peace treaty with Armenia may be signed in the near future if Yerevan does not resort to fraud and does not change its position again. This was stated by Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev at a meeting with residents of Lachin on May 28.

On May 26, 2023, at the head shipbuilding enterprise of the German company Abeking & Rasmussen in Lemwerder, a ceremony was held for the transfer to the Indonesian Navy of two minesweepers built for them -mine finders Pulau Fani (tail number "731") and Pulau Fanildo (tail number "732") of the MHV-60 project.

The journal of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation "Military Commissariats of Russia" (No. 3, May-June 2023) under the heading "Organizational and mobilization bodies will have to further improve their work in all areas of activity" published the text of the speech of the Chief of the Main Organizational and Mobilization Department of the General Staff of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation - Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Armed Forces The Forces of the Russian Federation, Colonel-General Yevgeny Burdinsky, at the gathering of the leadership of the organizational and mobilization departments of the headquarters of military districts, the headquarters of the Northern Fleet and military commissars of the subjects of the Russian Federation held on March 27, 2023 in Moscow.

The head of the Iranian Navy, Rear Admiral Shahram Irani, said that Iran, Saudi Arabia, Pakistan and other countries in the region intend to form a coalition to ensure maritime security.

On June 1, 2023, a ceremony was held in Jakarta for the transfer by the Indonesian Navy of the so-called "presidential helicopter-carrying corvette" (Kapal Korvet Rudal Heli (KRH) VVIP dan Kepresidenan) Bung Karno (tail number "369", KRH 369), which is a yacht for the President of Indonesia with the ability to perform the functions of a patrol and anti-submarine ship. The Corvette was built at the private Indonesian shipyard PT Karimun Anugerah Sejati (KAS) in Batam.

Global News: A Chinese ship went to intercept a US Navy destroyer in the Taiwan Strait

A Chinese warship at high speed approached the American destroyer USS Chung-Hoon at a distance of less than 150 m in the Taiwan Strait. The relevant footage was shared by the Global News channel on June 3.

On Sunday morning it became known that there was an incident with a Chinese Navy warship and an American destroyer in the Taiwan Strait. It is reported that the Chinese vessel twice dangerously approached the American one. Why did China decide to take a drastic step against the background of the security conference taking place in Singapore with the participation of the American and Chinese defense ministers?

The Northern Fleet will continue to improve the system of illumination of the situation in the Arctic

The Northern Fleet will continue to improve the extensive infrastructure of the air, surface and underwater lighting system deployed on islands in the Arctic, the press service of the SF reported on Thursday on the occasion of its 290th anniversary.

Soon its ship's complement will be replenished by the newest frigate of project 22350 "Admiral Golovko"

The Operational and Strategic Association of the Navy (Navy) The Northern Fleet celebrates on Thursday the 290th anniversary of its creation.

As the Vedomosti newspaper reported in the material of Herman Kostrinsky, Alexey Polukhin and Alexey Nikolsky, "The Ministry of Agriculture refused to build three large scientific vessels," the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation refused to build three large-tonnage research vessels (NIS) with a total cost of more than 70 billion rubles.