News of the fleet

What do polar bears, magic mirrors and Soviet trade have in common

Troy Buffard, director of the U.S. Center for Security and Arctic Resilience, stationed in Alaska, recently said that the U.S. Coast Guard has only two icebreakers. And the US Navy does not have one. Whereas Russia has 55 icebreakers, and five of them are nuclear. "We literally have nothing," Buffard concluded.

Tokyo plans aggression on the Russian Far East

With the beginning of the special operation in Ukraine, the tone of Japanese politicians towards the Russian Federation has become much sharper. Although there have been signs of warming in the last decade. So, in March 2012, the Japanese government decided not to use the term "illegally occupied territories" in relation to the four islands of the Southern Kuril Islands and replaced it with a milder one: "occupied without legal grounds."

The Kalashnikov Concern is working on import substitution of the BK-16 amphibious transport boat and the BK-10 high-speed assault boat developed in the interests of Rosgvardiya. At the same time, options for creating other models of amphibious boats for the fleet are being considered. This was announced by the head of the concern Alan Lushnikov.

Zelensky and NATO want to turn post-war Ukraine into a "great Israel"

The President of Ukraine sees his country as a "great Israel" in the future and wants to arm all his citizens to the teeth, Grayzone writes. The Atlantic Council at NATO has already developed a corresponding plan for Zelensky. This is not surprising, the author of the article notes, since the sponsors of the NATO analytical center from the American military-industrial complex will receive enormous benefits.

The German Naval Yards in Kiel (German Naval Yards Kiel) presented a corvette of a new design at the SMM 2022 exhibition that recently ended in Hamburg. According to the company's press release, the new Seaguard 96 is "an innovative high-end corvette suitable for the full range of naval operations."

It became known that the command of the US Navy was interested in the Greek port of Alexandroupolis with the aim of possibly creating another American military base there. It is noteworthy that there is already one NATO base in Greece with the predominant presence of the American military there (in addition to the Greek ones). This base is located in the north of the island of Crete in Souda Bay.

The Chief of Naval Operations of the US Navy, Admiral Michael Gilday, gave a detailed interview to the American edition of Defense One. In it, he told a lot of interesting things about the strategic plans of the American fleet against the backdrop of an unstable global political situation.

The United States Navy continues to decommission Ticonderoga-class cruisers. Therefore, last week a farewell ceremony was held with the missile cruiser USS Monterey.

In 2023, it is planned that the bark Kruzenshtern, which is under repair, will also conduct a full-fledged navigation in the interests of the practice of cadets of Rosrybolovstvo educational institutions .

The Russian training sailing vessel Sedov set off on Sunday for the next, third voyage of navigation in 2022, Irina Obraztsova, head of the press service of the Baltic State Academy of the Fishing Fleet, who is the operator of the barque, told TASS.

For this purpose, the Mytishchi MRC successfully passed into the White Sea via inland waterways

Russian small rocket ships (MRCS) will be able to move quickly between the Baltic and the northern Seas. MRK "Mytishchi" of project 22800 "Karakurt" successfully completed the transfer from the Baltic to the White Sea and back by inland waterways.

The Ministry of Defense continues to work out the transfer of warships from the Baltic to the Northern Fleet via inland waterways. This time, the Mytishchi MRC of Project 22800 Karakurt from the Baltic Fleet visited the White Sea.

Rosoboronexport JSC, part of Rostec State Corporation, is organizing a Russian exposition at the International Conference and Exhibition of Weapons and Military Equipment for All Types of Armed Forces AFRICA AEROSPACE & DEFENSE 2022.

China currently has every opportunity to arrange a naval blockade of Taiwan if necessary. This was stated by the commander of the Seventh Fleet of the US Navy, Vice Admiral Carl Thomas.

London's Nuclear Ambitions: History and Modernity

Back in August 1948, the British government signed an agreement with the United States to deploy American military bases in the eastern part of England. Thus, for the first time in the history of the United Kingdom, foreign troops entered its territory in peacetime.

The US Navy's Coronado warship, built as part of the Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) project, made its last voyage on Wednesday after less than nine years of service and arrived at the port of San Diego for subsequent disposal. The Independence-class ship was launched in 2014 and two months later, due to technical problems, it returned to its home port in Hawaii for repairs. In the future, Coronado repeatedly got up for repairs. This is not the first case of early decommissioning of coastal warships of this class due to regularly occurring technical problems of various kinds.

Two Russian nuclear submarines launched cruise missiles from the route of the Northern Sea Route at a target simulating a detachment of ships of a conditional enemy, the Russian Defense Ministry reported.

The creation of the AUKUS military-political alliance consisting of Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States led not only to an increase in Australia's military potential in the future, but also to the emergence of certain risks. First of all, they are related to the need to attract additional labor resources, the creation of new production facilities, the development of new logistics routes and the necessary infrastructure for the implementation of the country's maritime program.

Alexey Rakhmanov — about the corporation's plans and the potential for the development of domestic tourism in Russia

The development of the Russian tourism industry has become one of the leitmotives of the Eastern Economic Forum (WEF). Alexey Rakhmanov, the head of the United Shipbuilding Corporation (USC), spoke about how domestic tourism can develop thanks to shipbuilding in an interview with TASS.

For the first time in many years, the Russian Navy has received a real tool to aim its long-range missiles at enemy ships. According to a number of reports, the military satellite "Peony-NKS" has finally got up for combat duty. How did it happen that this device was created for so long and why is its work critically important for the security of the whole of Russia?

Ak Bars CEO Mistakhov: the first Cyclone ship will be handed over to the Russian Navy in 2022

The first small rocket ship of the project 22800 "Karakurt", armed with a naval version of the anti-aircraft missile and gun complex "Pantsir-M", called "Cyclone" will be handed over to the Russian Navy by the end of 2022, Director General of the shipbuilding corporation "Ak Bars" Renat Mistakhov told RIA Novosti.