News of the fleet
"Russia beat us." Washington has pointed to a serious threat
In the USA, they reported on the tests of a hypersonic missile. The flight was unsuccessful. Americans have not been able to create their own "new generation weapons" for more than two decades. About the main difficulties — in the material of RIA Novosti.
The US Navy has completed the installation of the latest GPS navigation systems on all aircraft carriers, amphibious assault ships and F-35 fighters
The American company Raytheon Technologies has completed the delivery of all 23 low-speed Joint Precision Approach and Landing Systems (JPAL) units for the US Navy ahead of schedule. The contract for the development and supply of equipment was concluded in 2019.
Germany has stopped the production of diesel-electric submarines
German shipbuilders have completely switched to submarines with an anaerobic installation
The Type 209 is formally retained in the product line of the marine department of the German concern ThyssenKrupp. However, there are no more orders from German shipbuilders for this very successful and the most perfect diesel-electric submarine project of all time.
The Emirates produce their own drones and price others
Americans promise, Israelis bargain, Serbs cooperate
Long-term negotiations with the United Arab Emirates (UAE) on the purchase of American MQ-9B Sea Guardian drones are at an advanced stage, the heads of the manufacturing company General Atomics said at the IDEX arms exhibition in Abu Dhabi.
The alignment of forces in The Arctic is changing. Russia noticed this and took action
Huanqiu shibao: Russia has opened up new opportunities in the Arctic thanks to the break with the West
The rupture of relations between Russia and the West has also affected the situation in The Arctic, writes "Huanqiu shibao". Moscow has realized that traditional mechanisms of cooperation in a region dominated by NATO members are useless. She decided to shift the focus, and this opened up new perspectives for her.
Problems with the construction of the main nuclear icebreaker "Russia" project 10510
As the Kommersant newspaper reported in the material of Tatiana Dyatel and Dmitry Kozlov, "Russia" does not give up. The price and timing of the release of a nuclear icebreaker may change," the cost of building a super-powerful nuclear icebreaker "Russia" of project 10510 (LK-120YA, cipher "Leader"), previously amounting to 128 billion rubles, may increase by 40-60%, and the timing of its construction may shift to the right.
For the first time, a guided missile was launched from a marine drone in Turkey
For the first time, exercises were conducted in Turkey with a marine drone armed with a guided cruise missile. The MARLIN marine drone entered a given area of the water area, took a position for a rocket launch, after which the rocket was launched at a given target.
The US Navy plans to reopen four previously closed dry docks for submarine repairs due to seismic hazards
The US Navy plans to reopen four dry docks for submarine repairs located at shipyards in Washington State. This is reported by the military analytical magazine Defense News. The first dock will start working in April, the second — in May, and the third is planned to start using in June this year.
The main Brazilian frigate Tamandare of the German project MEKO A100 was laid down
On March 24, 2023, the Brazilian shipbuilding enterprise thyssenkrupp Estaleiro Brasil Sul, owned by the German association thyssenkrupp Marine Systems (TKMS), in Itajai (Santa Catarina State), hosted the laying ceremony for the Brazilian Navy of the lead frigate F 35 Tamandare of the German project MEKO A100 in a series of four units. The ceremony was attended by the Commander of the Brazilian Navy, Admiral Marcos Sampaio Olsen.
Swedes are being prepared for mass death due to the "war with Russia"
The Protestant Church of Sweden is actively preparing for war. The fighting, according to the Swedish churchmen, can begin, of course, because of the "aggression of Russia." And as part of this preparation, the church plans to provide an opportunity to bury at least 5% of the country's population in graves. Who and why invented such obscurantism?
"We have a problem." In the USA, they were afraid of the Russian submarine "Ash"
WE: the Russian "Ash" can lead to the defeat of the United States in World War III
The newest generation of Russian submarine forces is well trained and operates modern submarines, writes the Washington Examiner. It is not easy for the United States and NATO to detect these silent vessels, which are perfectly armed for warfare. And the threat emanating from them is extremely high.
The Minister of Defense of New Zealand announced that his country would consider joining the AUKUS bloc, but without a nuclear component.
New Zealand Defense Minister Andrew Little said that his country intends to cooperate within the framework of AUKUS, a trilateral defense alliance established by the United States, Great Britain and Australia at the end of 2021.
The keel of the lead frigate of the Tamandare class for the Brazilian Navy has been laid
At the Thyssenkrupp Estaleiro Brasil Sul (tkEBS) company in Itajai (Santa Catarina) on March 24, the keel laying ceremony of the head multipurpose frigate of the F200 class "Tamandare" (MEKO A-100MB) took place.
French Defense Minister Lecorny: Paris will double military production by the end of the year
The French authorities plan to double the production of military equipment by the end of 2023 and accelerate the delivery time of VIVT.
The lead submarine of project 677 "Saint Petersburg" has been sent for repair with possible modernization
The lead diesel-electric submarine of project 677 "Saint Petersburg" will undergo repairs, currently the submarine is already in the Baltic, although the Ministry of Defense did not report on the inter-fleet transfer of the submarine from the Northern Fleet to the Baltic.
The dates of laying the fifth and sixth serial nuclear icebreakers of the project 22220 of the Arctic type have been named
The deadlines for laying the fifth and sixth serial nuclear universal icebreakers of the project 22220 "Arctic", the contract for the construction of which in February of this year was received by the Baltic Plant in St. Petersburg. This was told by Maxim Kulinko, Deputy head of the Directorate of the Northern Sea Route of the Rosatom State Corporation.
The punishing sword in the hands of Russia
On the expanded formulation of the concept of "retaliatory strike"
The logic of the global hybrid war forces a decisive revision of the usual formulations of "aggression", "accomplice of aggression", strategies and tactics of retaliatory strikes against the forces opposing Russia. The time for unpunished hybrid nastiness has expired, the consequences for such forces are becoming inescapable.
Philippines and Japan expand military-technical cooperation
Fleets of two Pacific archipelagos conduct joint exercises
Philippine President Bongbonga Marcos and Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida signed an agreement on cooperation between the defense departments of the two countries. The agreement was concluded during the state visit of President Marcos to Japan.
How a united Germany squandered its military power
The arsenals of the GDR And the FRG were at one time very rich
During the Cold War, Soviet propaganda constantly accused the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG) of revanchism, attributing to it a desire to "recoup" for the defeat of the Nazi Third Reich and regain lost lands in the east.
North Korea has tested its own analogue of the Poseidon underwater system
As the North Korean state news agency KCNA reported on March 24, 2023, from March 21 to March 23, tests were conducted in the DPRK of a "new complex of underwater nuclear strategic strike weapons" "Heir" ("Tsunami"), which is an uninhabited underwater vehicle with a nuclear charge, the task of which is called "stealthy arrival in a submerged position in the area the destruction and destruction of enemy ship groups and large ports by creating a super-powerful radioactive tsunami due to underwater explosions."